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Gus Solomons, Jr., dancer, choreographer, teacher, writer, director, actor, and puppeteer, died Friday, Aug. 11 at 84.

Grammy award-winning group marks 50 years of playing music with a SF performance

This year, Beach Sessions pairs an adaptation of Merce Cunningham’s “Beach Birds” with a response by the choreographer Sarah Michelson.

Grammy award-winning group marks 50 years of playing music with a SF performance

In the 2003 book, “Reinventing Dance in the 1960s,” Solomons — who began dancing at age 4 — expressed that […] The post Prolific Black choreographer Gus Solomons Jr. dies after sudden heart failure appeared first on TheGrio.

Under an unforgiving sun during a heat wave in July, Peter Schumann, the 89-year-old artistic director of Bread and Puppet Theater, rang a hand bell o

Peter Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theater is going strong and, at 89, so is he. But what will happen to his company when he is gone?

Yvonne Rainer’s first film is a fascinating immersion in 1970s art practice in all its meta-narrative incoherence and mess

Famed dancer and multihyphenate Mikhail Baryshnikov opens up about his creative life, work with the BAC, and the legacy he wants to leave.

TWO Wicklow artists are among the 19 artists showcasing over 30 remarkable artworks at the Bodywork exhibition taking place at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.