The Brown Decades

In an engaging new memoir, Carolyn Brown recollects her work with modern dance legends Merce Cunningham and John Cage.

Rachel Cohen

Let’s Dance

In Tango: The Art History of Love, Robert Thompson traces the dance’s roots in Afro-Argentine history. Tomas Eloy Martínez’s The Tango Singer appropriates its music to explore the recent past.

Marina Harss

Diaghilev in Perm

Few Westerners have ever heard of Perm. A former czarist administrative center, rustbelt Soviet city and gateway to the gulag, Perm was long off-limits to foreigners.

Lynn Garafola

One Step Removed

Those of us who have followed the New York City Ballet and the repertory of the world’s greatest choreographer, George Balanchine, since the mid-1950s are filled with spine-tingling memories of

Diane Rafferty

Street-Dancing Man

In classical dance, the art of imbalance–the pirouette, the jeté or the mere ethereal, alighted walk that alone makes audiences feel they are getting their money’s worth–is the purview

Ginger Danto

Tap Roots

It’s a shame that Savion Glover is trying so hard to hide from the world, because he’s the greatest tap dancer who ever breathed.

Diane Rafferty

Is It Still Rock & Roll to You?

A lot of nonsense has been written about the choreographer Twyla Tharp and her hit Broadway show, Movin’ Out, since it opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on October 24.

Diane Rafferty

Balanchine’s Gemwork

Mindy Aloff

Screendance

I grew up on dance films, although they weren’t known as such; they were called musicals.

Valerie Gladstone