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  • Dance 2012 in DC, MD & VA

    By on September 13, 2012

    Whether you're a longtime movement enthusiast or curious newcomer, the metro area's exploding dance scene is bound to have something – very many things –...

  • Review: Come Fly Away

    By on April 27, 2012

    Singing to recorded music signals that you can’t afford live musicians. What Twyla Tharp has done in Come Fly Away, putting a big band onstage...

  • Nejla Y. Yatkin/NY2Dance at Dance Place

    By on March 23, 2012

    Oasis: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Middle East But Were Afraid to Dance is a world premiere production by Nejla Y. Yatkin,...

  • American Ballet Theatre brings its new Nutcracker to the KenCen

    By on December 9, 2011

    ‘Tis the season for ballet companies to perform versions of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. The American Ballet Theatre offers a new version by the company’s Alexei...

  • The Great Septime

    By on October 27, 2011

    Septime Webre was drawn to dance early. ''I'm half-Cuban,'' he says, ''and there's an old Cuban saying that Cubans dance before they can walk.'' {Septime...

  • We’ll take a Royal Danish with that jete, please

    By on June 7, 2011

    Led by artistic director Nikolaj Hübbe, the world-renowned Royal Danish Ballet returns to the Kennedy Center for the first time since 2004 to offer new...

  • Hot Pick: Dakshina at Dance Place

    By on April 2, 2011

    For its annual Dance Place performance, the Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company presents a mixed program of dance, including Anna Sokolow’s solo pieces Kaddish and...

  • Do It! with Justin: Ep. 4 – Moves [video]

    By on March 30, 2011

    In the latest installment of our bi-weekly series, Metro Weekly's Justin Stewart attends dance class given by the popular gay dance troupe, the DC Cowboys....

  • Dance

    By on March 17, 2011

    ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 1333 H St. NE202-399-7993atlasarts.org Classical Repertory Dance Theatre -- Program includes world premieres of What We Leave Behind by Miya Hisaka...

  • Dance

    By on March 11, 2010

    CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER University of MarylandCollege Park, Md.301-405-ARTSwww.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu Gesel Mason — Through dance, personal stories and video images, Women, Sex, & Desire: Sometimes...

  • Flashdance

    By on January 27, 2010

    Piers Morgan of America's Got Talent has become an unlikely inspiration for female impersonator Shi-Queeta-Lee. ''A bunch of lip-synching old drag queens who can't dance...

  • Dance: Ballet, Modern, International

    By on September 16, 2009

    CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Doug Varone & Dancers University of MarylandCollege Park, Md.301-405-ARTSwww.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu Emio Greco/PC -- In choreographer Emio Greco's POPOPERA, acollaboration with composer...

  • Body Language

    By on April 22, 2009

    If you talk about contemporary dance in Washington, dancer and choreographer Helanius Wilkins is bound to enter the conversation. Since 2001, his EDGEWORKS Dance Theater...

  • Dance

    By on September 10, 2008

    CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER University of Maryland College Park, Md. 301-405-ARTS www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu · Tie Shopping with My Father -- Kathrine Iacono's father was a...

  • Finding Family

    By on October 31, 2007

    With Halloween down, it's time to start thinking of Thanksgiving and the rainbow of similarly family-themed holidays to follow in December. Along that theme, Peter...