This year’s Metro DC Dance Awards honored the best of the city’s dancers, choreographers, and companies on Monday night at the Kennedy Center. As evidence of the flourishing dance hub Washington is consistently becoming, it was standing room only for the sold out ceremony. Awards at the 8th annual ceremony were presented in 15 categories ranging from Emerging Choreographer to Excellence in Costume Design. Photo of Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company courtesy of Dance/Metro…

CorbinDances dance company performs at Dance Place this weekend. Photo by Lois Greenfield, courtesy of CorbinDances. A great dancer does not a choreographer make, but area native Patrick Corbin has proven otherwise with his company CorbinDances. Fresh off receiving rave reviews this spring in a two week season at Joyce SoHo in NYC, CorbinDances will perform two shows this weekend at Dance Place. The company’s engagement this weekend will be a homecoming for Corbin,…

In sweltering humidity, Paul Taylor Dance Company took the stage at Wolf Trap’s open air theater on Tuesday night for an evening of modern dance. The only thing unpleasant about the two hour performance was the temperature, and even that was easy to ignore as Taylor’s dancers took to the stage. The renowned company’s visit is a homecoming of sorts— Paul Taylor grew up in the D.C. area before leaving to study at Syracuse…

If you haven’t made the trek out to Wolf Trap lately, consider heading down to Vienna tomorrow night to see the modern dance performed by Paul Taylor Dance Company. Many have called Paul Taylor the greatest living American choreographer, and the works his company will perform tomorrow night are sure to prove that again. The company has almost 130 pieces in its repertory, an astounding number from a single choreographer, so part of the fun…

Area dance company CityDance Ensemble wraps up a busy season tonight with The Songwriters, a tribute to some of America’s greatest songwriters including Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry, and Bruce Springsteen. While CityDance consistently puts on a great program, Artistic Director Paul Gordon Emerson’s piece set to Springsteen’s music is sure to steal the show. Born to Run will use Springstein’s iconic music and legendary lyrics to showcase the spirit of youth, adventure, and growing up…

Starting this morning and continuing until Saturday evening, the Start with the Arts Family Festival is holding performances and kids workshops in Columbus Circle, in front of Union Station. VSA Arts, which is throwing the celebration, is an organization dedicated to making a place where people with disabilities can participate in and enjoy the visual and performing arts. As part of the festival, Lisa Bufano and Sonsheree Giles of AXIS Dance Company will perform a…

If National Dance Week got your blood pumping, consider heading over to Joy of Motion’s Bethesda Studios this Sunday afternoon for Hurray for BOLLYWOOD! The adult workshop class invites all levels and styles of dancers to come and explore Indian dance. For those of you who haven’t had Dhoom on your Netflix queue lately, Bollywood refers to India’s enormous film industry; the dance-heavy movies, with frequently over-the-top plot lines, are often compared to old American…

If fears of that $100 fill-up forced you to cut your weekly flamenco lesson, you might want to take advantage of Dance/MetroDC’s second annual Dance Is The Answer event in honor of National Dance Week. National Dance Week was organized in 1981 and has been an annual event ever since, but D.C. only really joined in on the fun about a year ago. That said, there’s an impressive lineup this year. Beginning today through…

Most of us take our iPods everywhere nowadays, and it’s not uncommon to see people wearing them in unusual places. In restaurants. In the grocery store. There are even gizmos that allow you to bring your iPod in the shower with you now. But when is the last time you saw people wearing their iPods at the theater? Legendary modern dance choreographer Merce Cunningham considered this, and tonight and Saturday evening at Sidney Harman…

There are dozens of galleries and performance spaces in the Washington, D.C. area, but few actually allow you to observe as an original work is created each night. In performances of Connect Transfer by Shen Wei Dance Arts in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall this weekend, twelve dancers will create a new work each evening with “live action painting” using varying colors of tempura paint on a white canvas. Fusing dance, music, and visual art,…