Less well remembered today but just as influential was Martha Graham, who pioneered modern dance. The Martha Graham Dance Company, which she founded in 1926, was the first dance troupe in America.

Icarus Contemporary Dance Company is flying closer to the sun with a joyful vision for the group’s Spring Sing performance.

He could jump in the air ... with great traditional training to look at modern forms of movement, great music — and bringing music and design and dance together into a cohesive whole." ...

This year’s DanceAfrica festival at BAM features Song & Dance Company of Mozambique, which a member likened to a mirror for the nation.

The creator conveyed her raw, athletic writing through a repetitive score of jumps, rolls and twists ... who is now based here. The contemporary dance scene in Montreal is very rich.

As the Boch Center Shubert Theatre descended into darkness, an utter silence settled over the audience who eagerly awaited the performance of Brazil’s renowned contemporary dance ensemble ...

"Contemporary dance actually has hundreds of different ... Clayton's energy seemed to jump right out of the photograph, prompting the online arts journal Burnaway to describe her work as ...

Part of the show’s design, and the Perennial Movement Group’s, was to challenge preconceived notions of dance and what it might look like. This is the appeal of contemporary dance, Ramey said.

Dance facilitates creative connections, grounds dancers and provides an emotional and physical outlet. At Purdue Contemporary Dance Company (PCDC), students find refuge in the art of dance and are ...