LAST year a list of "America's Irreplaceable Dance Treasures" was announced by the Dance Heritage Coalition, a Washington-based alliance of major dance libraries and archives, which is seeking to advance the cause of dance preservation.
Although Cairo remains the center for women seeking to learn the dance, the profession has suffered a certain slump at home, with far fewer upscale hotels featuring dancers.
(One might ask whether this is a relevant criticism if Goodman never sought to address dance practice. For a different account of how Goodman construes the work of art see S. Davies 2001, 102).
WERK for Peace was founded in the wake of the Pulse Nightclub shootings last year in Orlando and seeks to use dance as a means of promoting peace.
Desmond Richardson is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Complexions Contemporary Ballet, a company that seeks to reinvent dance by creating an open environment that embraces multicultural forms of movement.
It's perhaps a better display of bionic jazz than anything else ever released on Flying Lotus Brainfeederr label, which has sought to humanize dance music and digitize organic sounds since its inception in 2008.
The L.C.F., like most dance festivals seeking to amuse summer audiences, favors multimedia work, and "Telophaza" filled the bill.
He took along his muse, the ballerina Theresa Farrell, who is now the company's associate director; seeking to expand the audience for dance, they soon paired with Da Camera Society, a group that was founded four decades ago and performs chamber music at historic sites.
Speaking of recycled culture, the release on July 20 of the movie version of the Broadway musical "Hairspray" — itself based on a nonmusical film from 1988 — is being supported with a dance-oriented campaign, seeking to capitalize on numbers in the movie that are based on dances from the early '60s.
