Mar 27 Watch 5:08 ‘L’Allegro,’ a Mark Morris masterwork, makes its television debut By PBS NewsHour Thirty-five years after starting his dance company, Mark Morris is making the leap to television with a production of "L'Allegro" on PBS’ Great Performances. Jeffrey Brown talks to the famed choreographer. Continue watching
Feb 03 San Francisco dance troupe bears witness to history of human trafficking By Joel Wanek, KQED Lenora Lee, the artistic director of her dance company Lenora Lee Dance, creates large-scale interdisciplinary choreography that combine video projection, martial arts, music and text to talk about culture, history and human rights issues. Continue reading
Feb 03 Watch 5:49 San Francisco dancers confront history and human rights through video, text By PBS NewsHour Continue watching
Nov 03 If soil-dwelling fungi could dance, this is what they’d look like By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy In a scene from Uma Nagendra’s winning “Dance Your Ph.D.” performance, dancers in brown leotards slither on the floor, reaching for trapeze artists in green leggings dangling above them. The brown dancers are dangerous soil-dwelling fungi, trying to infect the… Continue reading
Oct 21 Dance program helps Florida’s inner city youth sashay toward college By WEDU For 22 years, the Sarasota Ballet has sponsored an after school program designed to transform the lives of inner city school children. The students study classical ballet, but the lessons learned are much broader. Continue reading
Oct 21 Watch With dance, Florida’s inner city students move towards college By PBS NewsHour Continue watching
Aug 27 Watch Misty Copeland makes a point of sharing her art with unlikely ballet fans By PBS NewsHour Continue watching
Aug 08 Grit and limbs propelled Misty Copeland’s improbable rise through ballet’s ranks By Julia Griffin In a ballet world filled with white swans, Misty Copeland stands out. As the first African-American female to hold the rank of Soloist at American Ballet Theater in 20 years, Copeland has had an improbable rise. In her new memoir… Continue reading
Aug 08 Watch Ballerina Misty Copeland stands out in world of white swans By PBS NewsHour Continue watching
May 21 Broadway Bound student-dancers perform ‘Fabulous Feet’ By Kathleen McCleery The National Dance Institute of New Mexico helps students make big strides in and out of the classroom. The program makes the case that exposure to dance, music and other artistic expressions can improve student achievement. Watch a performance of… Continue reading