July 31st: Community Engagement Artists and Creatives Grant, December 31st: New England Presenter Travel Fund, December 31st: Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet Scholarship, December 31st: 24 Seven Dance Convention, December 31st: National Theater Project Presenter Travel Grant, December 31st: Breck Creek Artist-in-Residence Program
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By Alex Marshall 28 May 2020 Eight dancers from the Ballet du Rhin were partway through a class at their studio in Mulhouse, eastern France, recently, when the company’s artistic director decided […]
By Gwynn Guilford 7 September 2020 Clara Vazquez’s 7-year-old son, Kevin, asks her a troubling question before he goes to sleep each night. “‘Mom, who’s going to take care of […]
By John Leland 21 August 2020 This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Nina Popova was a celebrated […]
By Alex Marshall 19 August 2020 For the past three weeks, the Mariinsky Ballet, one of Russia’s most renowned companies, led the dance world in showing how ballet could return […]
As the Perseverance rover heads towards Mars, back on Earth, a crew of engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are supporting the Mars 2020 mission. One of those people is systems engineer Heather Ann Bottom. With a bachelor’s in astrophysics and a master’s in space engineering, she certainly fits the bill. But Bottom has a few extra qualifications on her resumé: She was a Rockette in New York City and in the Broadway national tour of A Chorus Line.
DDP Global Conversations participant Susan Jaffe, the new artistic director of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, is interviewed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as she steps in to lead.
By Makeda Easter 2 September 2020 The announcements coming from L.A. dance studios feel eerily similar. In June, an Instagram post from Pieter Performance Space in Lincoln Heights began: “It is with […]
By Salamishah Tillet 2 September 2020 Camille A. Brown can’t remember the first time she danced the Electric Slide. She only remembers doing it. “It just was,” she said in […]
By Corinne Purtill 1 September 2020 In 2012, scholars Christine M. Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian set out to examine the lives of overstretched middle- to upper-middle-class working parents. Prior studies […]
By Francesca Donner 23 August 2020 On March 7, 2020, Melinda Gates published an Op-Ed in The New York Times to mark International Women’s Day. Today, she wrote, take a moment to […]
