Brandon Ragland Solidifies His Vision at Dayton Ballet
Brandon Ragland, Dayton Ballet's artistic director since 2023, enters his fourth season with a new Studio Company, a reimagined Nutcracker, and a Beethoven premiere closing 2026–2…
Topic: Ballet
Waiting Tables, Pet-Sitting, Baking: What Dancers Do in the Offseason
Three professionals tell Dance Magazine how summer layoffs became side careers: serving cruise-ship tourists in Juneau, pet-sitting in Seattle, and baking wedding cakes in Salt La…
National Choreographers Initiative to Close After 22 Years
Molly Lynch's National Choreographers Initiative, a July laboratory for dancemakers founded 35 years ago, gives its final performance at the Irvine Barclay Theater on July 25.
DanceAspen Builds Its Biggest Set Yet for CRESCENDO
DanceAspen stages CRESCENDO August 27–28 at Wheeler Opera House, premiering Samantha Lynch's A Boléro and previewing a John Denver multi-choreographer work.
Dance Magazine's 1990s Covers Trace a Decade of Fusion
Dance Magazine's 1990s retrospective spans Ruzimatov, Baryshnikov, Cunningham, Chaya and Graham — ten covers tracing fusion, technology and a changing of the guard.
State Ballet of Georgia Brings New Swan Lake to London
The company's redesigned Swan Lake, premiered in Tbilisi on May 21, plays 12 performances at the London Coliseum July 17–26 with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia.
Boys Ballet Summer Intensive Marks 10 Years with Raleigh Gala
ABT soloist Patrick Frenette marks 10 years of Boys Ballet Summer Intensive with an August 14 gala in Raleigh, and says representation keeps boys in ballet.
Audrey Tovar-Dunster Joins Vail Dance Festival as 2026 Scholar
The 17-year-old ABT Studio Company dancer, a veteran of Philadelphia Ballet and the JKO School, takes up Vail's scholar-in-residence post July 31–August 10.
Stars, Stripes and Doubt: How US Dance Faces America250
America250 has split US dance: NEA grants fund celebrations like Stars and Stripes while Doug Varone exits the Kennedy Center and ResistDance protests go viral.
WINN Dance: Stuttgart's New Company for Dancers Over 40
WINN Dance, a new Stuttgart company for dancers over 40 led by Marijn Rademaker and Slava Tutukin, premieres Death in Venice and Bridge of Sighs in Venice before touring.
Whiteface Incident at Finnish National Ballet Drove Dancer Out
Nayara Lopes says white makeup applied for Cupid in Don Quixote at Finnish National Ballet "felt like they were changing my race." She has returned to Philadelphia Ballet.
Pauline Clayden, Sadler's Wells Ballet Soloist, Dies at 103
Pauline Clayden, who danced a snake in Tiresias, a goat in Sylvia and an autumn fairy in Ashton's Cinderella, has died aged 103.
