By Michael Crabb The pandemic has presented dance artists everywhere with financial and creative challenges that no amount of resilience can easily overcome. It presents an existential threat that, even with the arrival of vaccines, shows no sign of vanishing any time soon. If you can’t make dances and perform them for audiences, what in
By Rebecca Karpus Taking ballet classes as an adult may seem like a bit of a risk — unlike most types of fitness, dance is, after all, an art form. The moment your hand touches the barre, the piano begins to play and you take an invigorating breath with your first plié, you are wonderfully
By Elaine Gaertner For a piano accompanist, playing for a dance class over the internet poses a whole new set of variables and challenges. In a virtual class, with dancers in their own spaces, potentially around the globe, technical restrictions mean they hear the music a fraction of a second or more after it leaves