Quiz: name and describe ten of history’s most famous ballets.

Here’s a small sampling of this week’s dance events. If you’re in the right place at the right time, check these out.

We talk a lot about the time you spend on stage and the time you spend in the studio. But we should also think about our contributions to dance, not as dancers or as dance makers or as dance teachers, but as paying audience members.

Guest blogger Will lets us into his life as a dancer and candidly answers some of the questions he often gets.

Here’s a small sampling of this week’s dance events. If you’re in the right place at the right time, check these out.

Slasher movies and ghost stories are the obvious choices of entertainment during the Halloween season. But if you want to enjoy the holiday without quite so much blood, gore, and horror, check out some of these Halloween dance events.

Along with tango and Bollywood, belly dancing is one genre that has snared a lot of dance newcomers. And while this art has long interested Americans, many dancers are investigating the beginnings of belly dancing in an attempt to revive this art in a more original form.

The best way to practice dance is to dance. The next best way to practice dance: watch.

For all the kids who grew up with the 1980s versions of Coco, Raul, Montgomery, and Doris, it’s time to claim their own “Fame.”

Without the real promotion of arts in college, will society replenish the shrinking, “graying audience?”

Here’s a small sampling of this week’s dance events. If you’re in the right place at the right time, check these out.

It’s Creole culture, without cowboy boots.

“Zydeco, Zaré,” the newest work by choreographer Elisa Monte, interprets the spirit and heat of traditional Zydeco culture through the medium of modern dance.

Hangar B at Floyd Bennett Field, NY, was the stage, and vintage military aircraft were the props, for “Breaking Ground: A Dance Charrette” last week.

When you’re searching for dance info online, do you make the most of the Internet’s resources? Here’s a list of 10 websites and tools that will help you get your dance info more quickly and easily.

Though the first French audiences to attend Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps” essentially revolted against its wild passion, during this past week, theatergoers in Paris demonstrated a century of evolution in art, audience, and appreciation for diversity, in Australia, in France, and throughout the dance world, as they responded to “Rites.”

What’s missing from your dance career? Probably health insurance.

It may be time to reconsider your current insurance (or lack of insurance), and learn what you need to know to get covered.

Here’s a small sampling of this week’s dance events. If you’re in the right place at the right time, check these out.

You eat well. You cross train. You try to obey your body’s limitations. You’re still going to get hurt.

After suffering an injury, it’s important to know what can you do to keep in shape, and make your return to the studio as fast, and safe, as possible.

A performance by three modern dancers opened Jean Paul Gaultier’s ready-to-wear summer show on Tuesday evening in Paris. The dancers’ costumes did not resemble any of the pieces in Gaultier’s show. But the dancers’ movement illustrated the inspiration behind this designer’s summer line.

It’s that time of year again: when kids (and people who still feel young enough to imagine) dress up and can pretend to be…anything!

And, statistics show that kids still overwhelmingly pretend to be dancers.

If you’ve just started dance (or if you’ve just started doing your own laundry), you might not know how to handle all those dirty tights and leotards.

If you want to get long life out of your dancewear, follow these guidelines for washing and drying.

For hip-hop dancers and choreographers Tymme and Aury Reitz, dance isn’t the ultimate calling. But it’s a way to achieve the ultimate calling.

This month, the Reitzs’ kicked off their latest project, which partners their dance ministry Word in Motion with a brand new dance and fitness studio, Time 4 Class. This alliance not only gives the Reitzs’ company a new home, but it also provides new opportunities for their community to enjoy dance.

Here’s a small sampling of this week’s dance events. If you’re in the right place at the right time, check these out.

Guest blogger Will uses his experiences as an adult male ballet beginner to dispel a few myths about ballet.

And, he answers all your questions about tights, shoes, and dance belts!

Most political “dance moves” have to do with dodging tough questions, finagling the opponent’s message, and downplaying scandal. So often, political commentators use “dance” as a metaphor for political strategy and smooth-talk.

But what about actual dance in this election?

“Audition” is hardly ever synonymous with “fun.” And bad auditions can mark some of the most unpleasant points in a dancer’s career.

Unfortunately, you’ll have bad auditions. But you can recover, and learn, from even the most disastrous tryouts.

Why do dancers–people who constantly train to improve their strength, stamina, and physical excellence–have a smoking rate nearly double that of people in the general population?

This post focuses on the reasons dancers give for smoking. And, it offer strategies for those who want to put dance before cigarettes.

Here’s a small sampling of this week’s dance events, including a few performances and auditions.

Tap dancers aim to get the best possible sound when dancing, and having the right shoes can make all the difference.

We’ll look at the anatomy of a tap shoe, and see how the right footwear puts new life in your step, flap, slap, and stamp.

Just when Americans had forgotten about “So You Think You Can Dance,” it shows up again.

Not only does the American “SYTYCD” Top-Ten Tour kick off in Tacoma, Washington on September 20, but dancers in both Canada and Australia are now competing for spots on their respective versions of the show.