Tag: dance

By day, 73-year-old Joyce Walters handles finances for a Buford church, and though her preacher has ribbed her for it, Walters never misses Hooplovers Hula Sculpt on Tuesday.

As the Atlanta Ballet’s first new artistic director in two decades, Nedvigin enters at a pivotal point in the organization’s 87-year history. Infrastructure is strong. Dancers show remarkable versatility. The company culture, based on individual creativity and collaboration, gives its performers a unique radiance onstage. Now it’s Nedvigin’s task to take the company to new heights.

After two decades with the Atlanta Ballet, principal dancer John Welker is pivoting to a new role.

Argentine tango is traditionally danced in close embrace, with spontaneity and musicality. Hackney, a research health scientist at the Atlanta VA Medical Center and a former professional dancer who once performed with the Radio City Rockettes, began adapting the rhythmic style in 2006 as a therapy for movement disorders.

Barry Thomas remembers a particularly strict tap-dance teacher who always told him, “If you can’t say it, you can’t do it.” And though at the time he’d mentally flipped her off, it’s now become one of his mantras as a dance instructor at Dance 101 on Briarcliff Road.

In 2014 Douglas Scott read an article about the people honored by monuments and memorials across New York City parks. “It made me curious about landmarks here in Atlanta,” he says.

On February 21st, the Lord of the Dance will perform in Atlanta for the last time when his farewell tour stops by Philips Arena. We caught up with Michael Flatley on what to expect from the show and his retirement.

Since launching in 2012, Tanz Farm—the brainchild of Goat Farm coowner Anthony Harper and Glo founding artist Lauri Stallings—has fulfilled its mission of becoming a destination for cutting-edge contemporary dance.

Over the course of Elizabeth Streb's career, the radical 65-year-old choreographer and (now-retired) dancer has explored explosive and daring movements that she calls “extreme action.”

When we think of sculpture, noisemaking costumes crafted from found objects don’t usually come to mind. But Chicago-based artist Nick Cave has always defied categorization, creating works that straddle performance art, sculpture, and dance. Sponsored by Flux Projects, Cave’s new work, "Up Right Atlanta," is a collaboration with local choreographer T. Lang.