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  • Dance: Spring Arts Preview 2016

    By on March 10, 2016

    Ballet, contemporary and ethnic dance performances in Washington, D.C, Maryland and Virginia

  • Dance: Fall Arts Preview 2014

    By on September 11, 2014

    Now in its sixth year, the Velocity DC Dance Festival, held at the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Sidney Harman Hall, has become fall’s leading showcase of...

  • Moving Tribute

    By on May 1, 2014

    The day after Sean Dorsey’s very first dance at dance school, the school’s director “informed me that my work, quote, ‘made people very uncomfortable.'” This,...

  • District of Dance

    By on January 2, 2014

    ''Our intent,'' says Carla Perlo of Dance Place, ''is to shed light on the fact that yes, we have world-class companies that have chosen to...

  • Dancing to Memories

    By on May 2, 2012

    ''It started out as kind of a stutter,'' says Kyle Abraham, about his father's aphasia, a type of brain damage. ''Two years later, it started...

  • Nightclubbing

    By on April 19, 2012

    Roxann Rowley wasn't struck by lightning, but a similar experience sparked her dance career. ''I was hit by a car crossing the street,'' Rowley explains,...

  • 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,...

  • Unevenlane at Dance Place

    By on February 5, 2011

    Under the artistic direction of founder Mary Lane, Unevenlane offers stories connecting with emotions to create richly layered dances full of curious intersections, angles, and...

  • Modern Moves

    By on April 23, 2003

    Deborah Riley is a woman, a dancer, a lesbian. If, therefore, she leads a modern dance company consisting exclusively of women, it only stands to...