It’s a blatant callout of the way in which marginalized people are expected to regurgitate their pain for a mainstream audience, in exchange for a moment in the spotlight.

E-Moves at Harlem Stage isn’t here to tell you what hip-hop can or should look like. Instead, it presents a wide array of choreographic approaches rooted in hip hop culture...

As a result of the historical erasure that accompanied colonialism and enslavement, queer identities are often framed as a purely recent, white, Western, and secular construct. In an evening rich with references...

A choreographer, performer, costume designer, and teaching artist Jenny Rocha bridges genres as director of both the modern-based Rocha Dance Theater and the cabaret troupe The Painted Ladies...

With a plethora of alternative Nutcrackers on the scene, David Parker’s Nut/Cracked carves out its own niche with a campy brand of dance comedy. Set to both the original Tchaikovsky score and a sprinkling of jazz and pop arrangements...

No artist succeeds alone. Choreographer Eryc Taylor acknowledges this wholeheartedly. Without personal and corporate supporters, he would never have been able to turn his early aspirations...

An aerial artist, musician, and master teacher, Robert Davidson (1946-2016) was known for integrating the Skinner Releasing technique — a somatic practice designed to unlock natural expression — with trapeze work...

In her double-bill including F R I C T I O N, a world premiere, and garment (2014), Sidra Bell jumps from distinctly adorned, raw physicality to extravagant, everything-but-the-kitchen-sink theatrics to share her surreal take on human nature and identity...

Alison Cook Beatty Dance Explores the Narrative Side of Modern Dance

Appropriately titled "Moving Stories," Alison Cook Beatty Dance's recent performance at the Salvatore Capezio Theater focused on how dance can express narratives drawn from literature, film, painting...