Dance

An image of male and female legs dancing in the final round of the stage category during the Tango World Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021.

Feminist tango collectives take center stage in Argentina

January 10, 2022Music

All-female and all-queer tango groups playing contemporary tango songs with a feminist lens are on the rise in Argentina.

Antonio Castillo, who moved to the US from Mexico at age 9, is behind an effort to field what he hopes will become Team USA for breakdancing in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

This Mexican American immigrant wants the US to win gold in the 2024 Olympics — for breakdancing

March 24, 2020Sports

Two women dance together wearing red clothing.

One small step: Moscow’s first queer dance festival challenges homophobia

February 19, 2020LGBTQ

New York’s Roper Records provided the soundtrack for generations of dancers across the globe

January 16, 2020Arts, Culture & Media

Martha Graham

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Novelist Rebecca Goldstein on Light

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt Andersen and novelist Rebecca Goldstein look at the ways artists, dancers, and filmmakers play with light. Goldstein is the author of Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics, The Mind-Body Problem, and Strange Attractors. She holds a Ph.D in Philosophy from Princeton University and in 1996 was awarded a MacArthur […]

Martha Graham

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

The dance company bearing its pioneering founder’s name struggles to keep her work alive. (Originally aired: March 24, 2001)

Merce Cunningham’s Digital Dance

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

The 82-year-old modern dance master Merce Cunningham describes whathappened when he began choreographing on a PC.

Choreographer David Dorfman on Touch

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt Andersen and choreographer David Dorfman explore the tactile and discover the significance of touch for dancers, sculptors, and musicians. Dorfman, an athlete turned dancer, is a choreographer, teacher, performer, and in 1985 founded David Dorfman Dance, a modern dance company which exuberantly combines fierce athleticism with humor and the stories of everyday life. Lauded […]

Loie Fuller, Goddess of Light

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Through her pioneering dance performances at the turn of the last century, Loie Fuller magically captured the theatrical possibilities of light. (Originally aired: April 21, 2001)

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