Going to see the performances of the Alborada Spanish Dance Theater, a company of 22 dancers who specialize in flamenco and other dances of Spanish cultural tradition, isn’t just an opportunity to see beautiful movements and vibrant costumes, all set to unforgettable music. It’s really a history lesson, too. “We create a story,” said Eva Lucena, one of the troupe’s founders who serves as its artistic director and historian. “That’s who we are.” The history, she said, is not just in the diverse range of dance styles they perform, many

Strictly Come Dancing fans are calling Saturday (9 October) night’s opening dance the “most beautiful” in the show’s history. This weekend’s episode is Movie Week, with the remaining contestants performing routines based around their favourite films. The episode opened with a stunning period drama-themed performance by the professional dancers to Taylor Swift’s “Love Story”. Dancers Johannes Radebe and Kai Widdrington led the couples, all of whom performed in mixed and same-sex pairs. Radebe was seen crying at the end of the dance. Fans were left spellbound by the routine, with many declaring it to

For choreographer Shana Simmons and her dance company, the COVID-19 shutdown was a fork in the road: Do they adapt and keep creating work — even if it’s not performed in person — or do they take a break? “We made the decision [to consider] how can we redo this,” she said. The result was a couple dance-for-film series that partnered dancers with public works of art across Pittsburgh and was showcased on YouTube. “I think in a lot of ways what we do as movement artists translates well into film,” she said.Those

Two local Indigenous teenagers are being rewarded for their efforts to help family and community members recover from COVID-19 while being in the hospital. Seventeen-year-old Meadow Musqua and her friend Kiana Francis have been sending their prayers through traditional healing Jingle Dress Dances they’ve been performing on the lawn of the Regina General Hospital, every evening at 6 p.m., for the past two weeks. Musqua’s mom does a Facebook Live of the dances so that those inside the hospital and others can watch as they dance. Some patients at the hospital

David Grannum’s lifelong journey as an artist prepared him for what he now describes as his mission: “to tell a story, and not just have a camera that’s looking at dancing bodies.” Grannum, a senior at USC, began his formal dance training at age 11 at the On Stage Academy of Performing Arts Center in Fall River, Massachusetts. In an interview, he spoke of his first teacher Linda Mercer-Botelho, and the values of “discipline, structure, and hard work” she instilled in him. He believes these values enabled him

Penn State’s Indian Culture and Language Club celebrated Garba in the HUB-Robeson Center on Sunday night. President of the ICLC Shashwat Shekhar said Garba is “one of the most popular festivals back in India.” “As you know, Hindu culture has a lot of gods and goddesses, right?” Shekhar (senior-computer science) said. “[Garba is] celebrated to kind of empower the female divinity.” Shekhar said the full ceremony is celebrated over nine nights consisting of "dance, music, snacks, everything.” “So here at Penn State, the ICLC is trying to recreate that feeling for the Indian

GURUGRAM, India — Gauri Dancers: The Opera of Mewar, presented by Latitude 28 in conjunction with Museo Camera Centre for the Photographic Arts, offers a new perspective into a performance art tradition from India. The show explores a series of dreamy hand-colored, black and white images by photographer Waswo X. Waswo in collaboration with third-generation hand-colorist Rajesh Soni, both of whom are based in Udaipur. The Gauri Dance is a centuries-old tradition of oral literature and performing arts by way of dance and drama, passed down over the generations among the

Yellow school buses took over Dubai’s roads on Sunday morning, as students returned to full in-person learning. Some schools went out of their way to make returning students feel comfortable. Not only did they put up banners and streamers, one school welcomed kids back with a Bhangra dance, a traditional Indian folk dance. “We went all out cranking up the beat

In the 1970s, she founded Hilliard's School of Dance where she taught ballet, tap, modern jazz and baton twirling to more than 5,000 students in 50 years. These days, Moore, 91, is still teaching weekly lessons but to a different group: her fellow memory support residents at Dublin Retirement Village. “When she moved to our community, it was an absolute natural fit to use her love and passion of music and dance as part of a unique way that we can connect with her and bring meaning and purpose

Sporting a nose ring and chunky silver jewelry the dancer in a long skirt and blouse pirouettes and shimmies with sinuous and graceful pelvic and belly movements, as the audience looks in rapt attention. Delhi-based Fashion graduate Eshan Hilal, 26,  was just five years old when he first danced to the rhythms of a popular song from a Bollywood hit.  But as he grew up in a conservative Muslim family, and refused to conform to the stereotype of a typical boy who would play cricket and rough games,