For decades, people have watched in awe as the perfectly synchronized Rockettes performed at New York City’s Radio City Musical Hall. But to be able to actually dance alongside the Rockettes? That ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Dance/NYC is launching the third iteration of the Disability. Dance.
(Haidy Samir, Ballet instructor) “I got the idea when my colleague's sister with disabilities wanted to dance ballet but there were no available studios for her. So, I started to train girls with ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Dance/NYC and its program partner Gibney have announced the Disability.
Many of us might be familiar with Mary Shelley’s legendary gothic thriller, Frankenstein. The story of an unhinged scientist and an experiment gone horribly wrong is regarded as a lesson in the ...
Prejudice can be held toward the idea of ability and dance when envisioning a supposedly ideal body. This notion can be challenged by having individuals with disabilities present their own ways of ...
After the event, Alice Sheppard, left, and professor Julia Watts Belser engaged in a question-and-answer session, touching on Sheppard’s experiences as a choreographer. Dancers often infuse their ...
New York City Ballet dancers raised the barre for young people with disabilities during a Saturday, July 17 workshop hosted by the company, Saratoga Performing Arts Center at the National Museum of ...
The critic Susan Sontag once observed that dancers differ from other artists. They are “driven by notions of perfection — perfect expressiveness, perfect technique.” As Sontag noted, “the daily life ...
Members of the MahataMmoho Collective perform at the Disability Pride Festival, which was held on July 26, 2024 at Canalside in downtown Buffalo. This year’s Disability Pride Festival, held at the end ...