By Debra Cash
Only medical skill, the support of friends and family and perhaps the prayers of his fans can help Fayard Nicholas recover from the stroke the gentlemanly 91-year old African-American dancer suffered on November 22, 2005. But those of us who thrilled to the virtuoso tap dancing of the Nicholas Brothers in the “Stormy [...]

Years of bitter and expensive litigation as well as the challenging nature of her work have put the artistic legacy of dance giant Martha Graham in crisis.
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Dance photography was born in the search to chronicle the dancer’s ephemeral art. It has grown up to offer a different, wholly independent, form of permanent performance
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By Debra Cash
Blame Alicia Alonso for reinforcing her own senseless Cuban embargo. The famed (and literally blind) dramatic ballerina who is the fountainhead of Cuban ballet and an official Friend of Fidel seems to have felt that although she made her own performing career in the United States the Cuban “dance drain” of ballet [...]

By Debra Cash
Ella Baff, executive director of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, recently shared the revision of an article she wrote for Arts Manager International Magazine last year. Her first tip for audience members: “Relax. Remember that when you travel to a foreign country, you may not know the language, but this does not mean [...]

Tap superstar Savion Glover effortlessly bridges the jazz and rap generations.
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The challenge of building a new dance audience lies in presenting, and contextualizing, thought-provoking work
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Dance icon Bill T. Jones confounds expectations about race and the power of stereotypes in two new dance pieces.
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A new dance show by Rennie Harris serves as a valuable response to MTV’s commercialization of hip hop.
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Students and audiences of tomorrow deserve exposure to great dances, but they are not always getting them.
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