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Wellness and yoga festival takes place Saturday in Dolores park

Free yoga and dance classes offered

DATE: Aug 20, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

CNN features Native American dancers with ties to Southern Ute tribe

Two-spirit couple redefine traditional couples dance

DATE: Feb 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: Local News

Celebrated hoop dance contest goes virtual

PHOENIX – Hoop dancing has rarely ever been about competition for Scott Sixkiller Sinquah. Sure, Sinquah is a world champion hoop dancer and one of the best to ever do it. But he ...

DATE: Feb 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Tony-winning choreographer, actress Ann Reinking dies at 71

NEW YORK – Ann Reinking, the Tony Award-winning choreographer, actress and Bob Fosse collaborator who helped spread a cool, muscular hybrid of jazz and burlesque movement to Broadway and bey...

DATE: Dec 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Durango Dance brings ‘The Nutcracker’ to the drive-in

Community talent gathers for holiday tradition ... with a twist

DATE: Dec 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Wave of ‘Nutcracker’ cancellations hits dance companies hard

COLUMBUS, Ohio – For many, it’s not Christmas without the dance of Clara, Uncle Drosselmeyer, the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Mouse King and, of course, the Nutcracker Prince. But this ...

DATE: Oct 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

‘Tiger King’ star Carole Baskin to ‘Dancing With the Stars’

Like all cool cats and kittens, Carole Baskin is going to “Dancing With the Stars.” The reality TV star who became a pop culture sensation with Netflix’s docuseries “Tiger King” i...

DATE: Sep 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Nigerian boy gains fame after dance video goes viral

LAGOS, Nigeria – When Anthony Mmesoma Madu was videoed practicing ballet barefoot in the drizzling rain in Nigeria earlier this year, the 11-year-old thought the footage would be used for a ...

DATE: Aug 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Durango dances through pandemic challenges

Studios faced financial uncertainty, closure

DATE: Jul 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

World-class hoop dancer Nakotah LaRance dies

Champion hoop dancer Nakotah LaRance, who traveled the world performing with Cirque du Soleil then returned to New Mexico to coach youth dancers, has died at age 30. LaRance, who ...

DATE: Jul 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Durango dancer keeping on her toes

Pandemic forces Francesca Bianchi home from college

DATE: Apr 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Dancer born with one hand makes Radio City Rockettes history

NEW YORK – A dancer born with one hand is the first person with a visible disability ever hired by New York’s famed Radio City Rockettes. “I don’t want to be known as the dancer w...

DATE: Dec 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts