The ballerina raises a slender leg, then bounds across the smooth floor. She transforms the lingering notes into movement. The scholar translates a sonnet. “Au revoir” becomes “adiós”; “adiós” becomes ...

Deborah DuBowy fell in love with dance at age 7, studied through her teens and, after high school, began studying at the American Ballet Theater school, in New York, in the mid 1970s. Over at the New ...

Teens in formal clothing, rented limos and lavish corsages: Prom season has begun. The word “prom,” for a dance or ball, is a contraction of “promenade.” The last syllable, “-nade,” should rhyme with ...

SPOILER ALERT: This recap contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 3 of “Blindspotting,” now streaming on Starz. The latest episode of Starz’s “Blindspotting” forces Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones) and ...

So much more than just words, actors’ bodies help to tell stories on stage. This applies for any performance, but it is especially notable in musicals, where dance is woven into large portions of the ...

A new dance piece asks how words and movement can play together. Joy French, the founder of Bare Bait Dance company, started out with the idea that her new evening-length piece, "Dance | Words |Dance, ...

I am watching a black man gyrate in front of me in a thong over gray briefs. A tuft of synthetic, orange hair peeks out from the front of the triangular fabric. His nearly-shaven head glistens as ...

The carefully crafted words of poetry seem to dance though the auditorium. Or is the graceful steps of the dancers that twirl and move to the poems read aloud? Maybe it can be both in a rare ...