Where you are when you don’t know where you are is one of the most precious spots offered by improvisation. It is a place from which more directions are possible than anywhere else. Nancy Stark Smith, ...

Leslie Parker: “I think of Black Dance Improvisation as a way of approaching a dance aesthetic that gives more space for the relevance of Black and brown bodies and the histories that they bring into ...

Velocity Dance Center has announced the 31st annual Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation (SFD+I) happening across the city this summer July 14- August 11, 2024. With a deep history in radical ...

His torso gleaming with sweat, 6-foot-2 Jones Welsh is surprisingly agile as he hurls himself around the floor to the techno sounds of Austrian duo Kruder & Dorfmeister. He does a one-armed cartwheel ...

Oberlin College will welcome 270 dancers from around the world and host hundreds of practitioners of contact improvisation during a five-day festival from July 7-11. Critical Mass: CI@50 celebrates 50 ...

The student-run Modernextension Dance Company is preparing to dance among the many works of art in the Ackland Art Museum from 6-8 p.m. on Nov. 17. The group will create improvised dances based on ...

The 18th Busan International Improvisation Dance Festival (BIMPRO 2025, Artistic Director: Park Eunhwa, Professor Emeritus of Dance at Pusan National University), where dancers from around the world ...

“1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3” Katie Wells called out to her improvisation dance students at Dogtown’s Sun Hall on a recent Tuesday evening. It was the third class in an eight-week series, open to drop-ins and ...

Sun 6/12-Sun 6/19, various venues and times, information at 773-281-0824, linkshall.org, tickets at 312-369-8330, colum.edu/dancecenter, $10-$20 per show, fest passes $27-$58. The Reader is free.

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