Bridging the East and West, American women have found Hinduism’s powerful divine feminine through the art of sacred dance.

Jacob's Pillow's 2026 festival salutes "mother of modern dance" Martha Graham with a new Hope Boykin work, a Tanglewood ...

The exhibition will feature works by the 20th century’s most celebrated women photographers Margaret Bourke-White, Chain Belt ...

"Contemporary Dance in Four Colleges" is a 1952 Perry-Mansfield production that captures the innovative spirit of mid-century American dance education. The film presents dynamic performances and ...

Text by Imani Perry Photographs by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. Videos by Caroline Kim and Alan Lee Jensen Every image here of the dancers Ayodele Casel, LaTasha Barnes and Camille Brown is strikingly ...

Amplifying the camaraderie, creativity, strength and vision of Black female choreographers is the foundation of Dayton Contemporary Dance Company’s presentation of “Power & Presence,” coming March 1 ...

By O’Dell Isaac Birthdays and anniversaries – particularly those ending in a five or a zero – often serve as opportunities for reflection. So when the Ormao Dance Company put together a concert to ...

Modern Black femme artists are reveling in the spoils of dance music reentering the mainstream, not that it hasn’t been here all along. Staking claim to 1990s house music were vocalists Caron Wheeler, ...

University of Kwa-Zulu Natal provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. This is a hymn to an African woman who has inspired not only African dancers but a global community of artists to ...

They say a classical ballet isn’t over until the female protagonist dies. Tchaikovsky’s popular 1870s Swan Lake is a prime example. Turned into a white swan by Baron Von Rothbart, Odette perishes in ...

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