Modern Nutcracker Ballet – Christmas Legend
• September 15, 2025

Aru Dell’Arte Dance Company is bringing The Nutcracker into the 21st century. Once upon a time – more than magic was about to happen the night before Christmas. This show […]

Season Finale at Dance Loft on 14: ‘Muse’
• May 15, 2025

As the National Portrait Gallery’s second choreographer-in-residence — Dana Tai Soon Burgess was the first — Diana Movius creates dance pieces inspired by the works on view at the gallery, […]

Modern Nutcracker Ballet – Christmas Legend
• November 25, 2024

Aru Dell’Arte Dance Company is bringing The Nutcracker into the 21st century. Once upon a time – more than magic was about to happen the night before Christmas. This show […]

Where Fashion and Dance Collide: “Dance For All” at Dupont Underground
• October 17, 2024

By Lucy Cullen The Washington Ballet recently performed at Dupont Underground, an arts organization that has transformed the abandoned space under Dupont Circle into a space for contemporary arts. Partnering […]

‘Pathways to Performance’ Spotlights Black Ballet at the Kennedy Center 
• July 8, 2024

By Hailey Wharram On July 2 and July 3, Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet (MoBBallet) and the Kennedy Center presented “Pathways to Performance: Exercises in Reframing the Narrative” in the […]

A Contemporary Season-Closer for the Washington Ballet
• June 20, 2024

The Washington Ballet closed out its 2023-24 season with contemporary flair. Titled “Beyond Boundaries,” the trio of ensemble pieces — presented over the last weekend in May in the Kennedy […]

Christmas Legend – Modern Nutcracker Ballet
• October 23, 2023

Aru Dell’Arte Dance Company is bringing The Nutcracker into the 21st century. Audiences will be dazzled by glamorous Christmas festivities through a sophisticated, modern story twist! Once upon a time […]

“Lift”
• August 30, 2023

Join us for a post screening discussion with Oscar-nominated filmmaker David Petersen and Steven Melendez, artistic director of the New York Theatre Ballet. Filmed over ten years, Lift tells the […]

Chamber Dance Project Celebrates Their Favorite SLAM! Moments
• July 27, 2023

Take a look back at of The Chamber Dance Project’s favorite moments from last month’s SLAM! performances. Read more about the five show run of performances from our arts writer […]

Code Purple: Haze Postpones Baseball, Ballet, Trash Pickup
• June 8, 2023

The smoke drifting south from wildfires in Canada caused postponements or closures across Washington, D.C., and beyond today. The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments issued a health advisory: “Current air […]