Richard Boyd Photography Donna Faye Burchfield , who has spent 28 years building the dance program at Hollins University, will take over in Philadelphia from the retiring Susan Glazer. Builder yields to a successor. By Merilyn Jackson. For The Inquirer The nation’s largest undergraduate dance program – now 15 staff musicians, 30 full- and part-time [...]

Montgomery County Community College is accepting registration now for its new Associate in Arts degree program in Dance. Beginning in the fall, this 63-credit program provides both a liberal arts background and dance courses comparable to classes offered during the first two years at a four-year institution. Classes include modern dance, ballet, jazz, hip hop, [...]

The dance-driven artist-fueled nEW Festival celebrates its 7th year with a series of community classes and an evening of fresh dance at the The University of the Arts (UArts) School of Dance, from June 1 – 18, 2010.  The nEW Festival supports choreographic research and professional development for resident artists though bi-annual residencies including daily [...]

A Free Lecture-Demonstration For All Ages BalletX presents a free public interactive lecture-demonstration Inside the Mind of A Dancer exploring the process of movement creation and memorization for all ages, with co-artistic directors Christine Cox and Matthew Neenan,  Sunday, April 18, 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM at The Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia. [...]

Metropolitan Ballet Company (MBC) and students from the Jenkintown Branch of the Settlement Music School will present their annual collaborative performance on Saturday, February 6th, at 3:00 pm, in the Josephine Muller Auditorium at Abington Friends School, 575 Washington Lane, Jenkintown, PA. Now in its ninth year, the annual collaborative concert will present works performed [...]

On Friday, December 4th at 11am, 1,500 students will enter the Merriam Theater on the Avenue of the Arts to watch possibly their first-ever ballet performance. The majority of these students ranging from age 4-13, are participants in The Rock School’s RockReach community engagement program, teaching dance and its many benefits to underserved children in [...]

by Beth Kephart for The Dance Journal Love walks down the street and sits in the park in the sun.  It tenders its hand in apology or desire, corrupts the knees, revokes the arch of the foot.  Love is the story, never finally told in words and, perhaps, never finally told at all, though one [...]

By Ellen Gerdes for The Dance Journal We began with legs bent low, pelvis free of tension, and hands held softly in front of our energy center (dantian).  As we performed a series of pliés in parallel, we drew breath up from the soles of our feet, through our spine, out our fingertips, and down [...]

by Carolyn Merritt for The Dance Journal The evening started off with the most basic of exercises.  Walking.  Two whole songs worth.  Circling the space in counter-clockwise rotations, we matched the downbeat of each step with an exaggerated snap, the kind pacing and undeniable compás of DiSarli’s Don Juan drilling the room into a fleeting [...]

Once upon a time, the wind blew a picture of a ballerina to an orphan’s gate in Africa . . . By Ellen Dunkel, For The Inquirer The road to becoming a dancer, particularly for a girl, is a long, hard, highly competitive one. She must practice thousands of pliés and tendus, and deal with [...]