Four dancers rehearse for the New Traditions Festival 2016: Dance Your Caribbean!

Dance Caribbean Collective strengthens “New Traditions” with second annual Festival

On a Sunday afternoon, 15 dancers and choreographers gather in a Brooklyn dance studio to share their works in progress under the careful eye of Candace Thompson, the founding Executive Director of Dance Caribbean Collective. Together, they are preparing for DCC’s second annual New Traditions Festival, a performance series that celebrates Caribbean diasporic dance traditions…

Looking back and moving ahead – Trainor Dance premieres “Faux Pas” at MMAC this weekend

With a flourish of long, colorful skirts, the members of Trainor Dance take their places for the day’s last run-through of their newly finished piece. The company will open its fourth performance season this weekend at Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, and though the seven dancers are undoubtedly tired, they betray no fatigue as they kneel and place their heads…

Trading Papers for Pointe Shoes – Columbia, Princeton, and Harvard present the Ivy Ballet Exchange this weekend in NYC

While most Ivy League students can be found working hard in the library, there’s a growing group of students that can be found working hard in a very different place on campus – the dance studio. Despite the demands of ever-looming midterms, term papers, reading lists and group projects, many Ivy League students are making…