May 27 Watch 6:47 This museum gift shop sells art you can’t hang on the wall By PBS News Hour In Minneapolis, the Walker Art Center is offering art lovers a new thing to collect: intangible experience, direct from artist to consumer. Jeffrey Brown reports on how customers can purchase personal dances, ringtones, even the chance to stage their own… Continue watching
May 13 This filmmaker wants you to see what breakdancing in Yemen is like By Colleen Shalby Scenes from the Arab Spring flash across the screen at the start of the new documentary “Shake the Dust.” But this film isn’t about politics or a revolution. Continue reading
Apr 07 Watch the 1000-year-old dance tradition nearly killed by the Khmer Rouge By Cynthia Stone, KQED Charya Burt trained as a classical Cambodian dancer, Now, she's passing on her art and drawing on a painful family history under the Khmer Rouge to push her dance in new directions. Continue reading
Apr 07 Watch 3:34 Watch the 1000-year-old dance tradition that was almost killed by the Khmer Rouge By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch 5:08 ‘L’Allegro,’ a Mark Morris masterwork, makes its television debut By PBS News Hour 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 News Hour 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 News Hour Continue watching