Lauren Warnecke

For more than three decades, hoofers-in-training have convened in downtown Chicago for Rhythm World, organized by the Chicago Human Rhythm Project.

Gustavo Ramirez Sansano’s contemporary ballet on the subject of the opera “Carmen” is back in a striking new production.

Indoors or out, when it comes to dance — there’s something for everyone this summer — everywhere you look.

The occasion is the solstice holiday, marked by a boozy feast, dancing around a maypole, and in choreographer Alexander Ekman’s native Sweden, a nighttime nude swim.

If a hot girl summer was a dance, it might look something like Kyle Abraham’s “Are You in Your Feelings?” It's his third work for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater,...

“Gershwin was passionate about making classical music accessible," says the choreographer. He wanted "Unconditional" to be just as relatable as a dance piece.

The first of two programs this weekend is narrowly focused on the NYCB’s first three decades; the second zooms in on this century, with works by Justin Peck, Christopher Wheeldon,...

A departure from conventional “dance making,” Anjal Chande uses an improvisational score with a handful of anchor points.

“They say you should never meet your heroes. He’s just such a down-to-earth, generous person. He said he was really surprised at how emotional he was watching the dancing."

If Lou Conte’s signature “Georgia” represents the past, the three other works on Friday’s program — and those to come in a separate bill next weekend — are firmly rooted...