Today, we’re putting a spotlight on Music & Motion Dance Productions for our feature series “This Season.”

Music & Motion Dance Productions is a a fresh, innovative, performance-oriented, youth dance company out of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia.

You’ll want to learn more about Music & Motion and this dynamic young company’s approachable and inventive dance performances. Click on the title of this post to read more.

With the third anniversary of the hurricane Katrina disaster approaching on Aug. 25, Terpsicorps dancers’ recent presentation of “Hurricane & other forces of nature” at the Diana Wortham Theatre in Asheville, NC, was a timely performance of a powerful piece.

Last year, Chicago Tap Theatre (CTT) audiences saw The Hourglass stomp, riff, and tap down villains in the company’s “The Hourglass in the Stop-Time Chronicles,” a comic book tap opera. Now, the CTT has reintroduced their tap heroine in a new show, “The Hourglass and the Poisoned Pen.”

Recently, we had the chance to speak with CTT’s artistic director Mark Yonally about “The Hourglass” and about his approach to tap. Click on the title of this post to read our entire article, and to find out how you can see “The Hourglass and the Poisoned Pen.”