By Kathleen Smith For dancer/choreographer Syreeta Hector, the solo work Black Ballerina is the distillation of years-long personal research into identity, family history and how to be an artist in a society that tends to tamp down both. Created largely pre-pandemic, and two years in the making, Black Ballerina poetically gathers the threads of Hector’s
By Jenn Edwards As dance companies across the globe are showing us, there’s no one way to approach virtual performance. Below are five examples of how dance organizations large and small, established and emerging, are finding innovative ways to engage audiences as theatres everywhere are closed due to the pandemic, and we find ourselves in