As a result, dance history has only come about as a field of study since the late 1940s, she said. Dance archives are available at the New York Public Library, Harvard, the Library of Congress, the ...

The New York Public Library recently digitized thousands of hours of its videos in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division Moving Image Archive, from grainy historic footage to contemporary productions ...

On Monday—the 126th anniversary of modern dance pioneer Martha Graham’s birth—the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (NYPL) announced its acquisition of the artist, teacher and ...

Freestyle dancing, or hip hop dancing, or club dancing, or house dancing, is so unstructured it can’t even settle on one name. It can’t be limited to one type of music and can’t be taught as one set ...

Editor’s Note: In an effort to present options for creating healthy lifestyles, The Abington Journal is featuring the ongoing series, “Your Health 2008.” Always consult a physician before starting an ...

This, frankly, isn’t the ideal location for the timeless art of dance. It’s jammed in a strip mall of ugly asphalt and cigarette butts, neighboring a coin-op laundromat and a smoke shop. It’s across ...

There is little chance for the dance in Germany today. Anything that affects a nation socially and religiously is bound to affect the dance. So asserts Martha Graham, leading American artist in the ...

On any given day, you can walk into the dance division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and request to see the ballet slippers of the early-20th-century ...

Almost imperceptibly, the four dancers begin to stiffly sway their bodies forward and backward, side to side. Like reeds pushed by a soft breeze, they pitch forward and then suddenly back, but — just ...

In the 1960s, students from high schools throughout the Susquehanna Valley came to the WGAL studio to dance to the tunes of the decade.Dance Party was a big hit for the kids of the time. It all ...