By Brian Seibert “Why do they fall down?” This was the question that Yang Meiqi, a Chinese dance educator, asked about the students in a modern dance class she watched in Durham, N.C., in 1986.
Dance lovers can bring home the sounds of Ailey with a newly repackaged CD celebrating 50 years of the world s most famous modern dance work, with traditional spirituals and gospel favorites sung ...
As actress Cherry Jones reads from Fuller’s writings in recounting how she first conceived of this most famous of late-19th-century modern dances, the film offers up plenty of examples of Fuller ...