Where you are when you don’t know where you are is one of the most precious spots offered by improvisation. It is a place from which more directions are possible than anywhere else. Nancy Stark Smith, ...

Leslie Parker: “I think of Black Dance Improvisation as a way of approaching a dance aesthetic that gives more space for the relevance of Black and brown bodies and the histories that they bring into ...

Modern dance in a modernist landmark – what could be more logical? It also turned out to be quite enticing as part of a superb interdisciplinary program Sunday at the Crown Center of the Illinois ...

Sun 6/12-Sun 6/19, various venues and times, information at 773-281-0824, linkshall.org, tickets at 312-369-8330, colum.edu/dancecenter, $10-$20 per show, fest passes $27-$58. The Reader is free.

Professor Matthew Farmer ’04 teaches a broad range of courses: in modern dance, jazz dance and ballet; dance improvisation, composition, and contact improvisation; 20th- and 21st-century dance history ...

Chicago's first-ever festival of improvisational dance, the most-appropriately named Dance Improvisation Fest, takes over several local venues through the weekend. Bringing together nearly two dozen ...

They’re coming from New York, Berlin, Sweden and our own backyard, and they include alumni of Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Trisha Brown Dance Company and other troupes from around the world. “They” ...

Contact improvisation dance has been described as “moving massage,” “body surfing,” “gymnastics,” “post-modern folk dancing.” Rana “Satori” Stewart, who leads a class in contact improvisation dance ...

Alzheimer's will teach you to look at things in a different way, with more flexibility, like improv dance. The only "rule" is truly paying attention and letting the rhythm of the moment move you ...