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Dance to the rhythm of inspiration with these exceptional books, revealing the stories, styles, and secrets of dancers and choreographers worldwide.

On page and stage, the modern-dance pioneer returns for an encore.

It wasnt unanimous, but Alliance City Council approved rate hike with Kimble for trash service. The next contract might have competition.

Fuel leaks and other issues have twice postponed the most powerful rocket system ever created from taking off

The sellers bought another West End home that came in at No. 2 among last year’s top sales. Meanwhile, the sellers of that home return as buyers on this list.

Danse résistante #5. Notre série nous emmène cette semaine sur les pas du New Dance Group. De 1932 à 1955, ce collectif né à New York, porté par l’idéal communiste, a traduit, dans la danse moderne, les revendications de la classe ouvrière et la lutte contre le racisme. Un corps révolutionnaire en Amérique.

Installation view. LONDON .- One of the most innovative artists and designers of the 20th-century avant-garde, Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) challenged the borders between abstract art, design and craft. Tate Modern’s major exhibition is the first in the UK to trace Taeuber-Arp’s accomplished career as a painter, architect, teacher, writer, and designer of textiles, marionettes and interiors. Bringing together over 200 objects from collections across Europe and America, the exhibition shows ...

The Offending Classic Photo: Nikolai Aistov as the Rajah, Julia Sedova as Gamzatti and Pavel Gerdt as Solor (ca. 1902). Courtesy of the Marius Petipa Society. We have recently seen a conflict over a Depression-era mural on the wall of a public school in San Francisco. It came under attack by the student body for its offensive content to minorities, even though the 1930s mural in question was by Russian leftist émigré artist Victor Arnautoff (hardly a household name) and was created as a prote...