Ballets Jazz Montréal presents an evening of dance inspired by the rich Montréal-based poet, artist and songwriter, Leonard ...

Dancer-turned-filmmaker Khadifa Wong's debut documentary, 'Uprooted,' explores the history and evolution of jazz dance, from its slavery-era roots through hip-hop and beyond. By Sheri Linden Senior ...

Shining on stage, the University of Arizona’s School of Dance brought the razzle-dazzle to this year’s Arizona Jazz Dance Showcase, or Jazz ‘n’ AZ. The event kicked off with a high-energy, one-act ...

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious, brass ...

Few films wield the awesome spiritual power of Jazz Dance, on which Leacock was one of two cameramen charting the slow, smoldering build of a Manhattan dance club from idle space to explosive, carnal ...

Alto saxophonist Charles McPherson has a reputation as one of the last true followers of the bebop tradition but this release shows that his talents stretch beyond that. The music consists of scores ...

Musical theater dance is the type of dancing—usually ballet, jazz, hip-hop, or tap—used in choreographed sequences for musical theater. Once upon a time, in the Golden Age of Broadway, there were two ...

When Twin Cities dancer Karla Grotting decided to reconstruct a 1981 work called "The Nutleys of Nubec" by the late jazz choreographer Clarence Teeters — she had two dancers perfect for Mr. and Mrs.