ALEXANDRIA, Va. — On this St. Patrick’s Day, two local Irish dancers are packing their bags. They will soon leave to compete in the world championships. Three nights a week, Chip Krese laces up his ...

If you’ve been watching the show, you know that we’ve been putting ourselves through the trials of learning to dance. We’ve talked with b-boys as they prepare for their shot at Olympic gold this ...

Irish dance is performed in either soft or hard shoes. The hard shoe (also called heavy shoes) makes the stomping sound that many associate with Irish dance. “A lot of times when people come to Irish ...

Last Thursday, Bali Barret, the “women’s universe” artistic director for Hermès, sat beneath stained-glass windows at the Gallim Dance company, at the Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, in Brooklyn.

When she performs at her peak, Kaylee MacLuskie feels “dancery.” It’s a term she coined herself: dancery is elegance, power. It’s feeling independent, strong, capable, and most importantly, free. And ...

It would be so easy to titter and scoff at Shall We Dance?, a Miramaxed-out version of the 1996 Japanese film of the same name, which told of a bored businessman who is reinvigorated after a few dozen ...