Suffering from break-up blues? Did your significant other do you wrong? Then Jennifer Lopez has some advice for you, inspired by her hit single “Louboutins.” “I love the [female]-empowering message that it has. If someone cheats on you or breaks up with you or does something awful or wrong to you, you [want to] sit [...]

Winning wasn’t the only thing Russell Ferguson wanted to accomplish on So You Think You Can Dance. He also wanted to familiarize America with the urban dance form known as krump. Read an interview with Ferguson at www.thestar.blogs.com/

As an artistic event, Nutcracker does practically everything but crack nuts. The Tchaikovsky ballet provides a holiday tradition for families, a rite of passage for aspiring young dancers, and a kind of outreach program for ballet companies nationwide. This year’s Atlanta Ballet production of Nutcracker features about 250 young area dancers in small roles, in [...]

What are the names of the seven Orphans? The first person with the right answer wins two tickets for the opening night. You can e-mail your answers @ dancedirect@hotmail.com America’s most beloved family musical, ANNIE, is back in an exciting 30thwww.ticketmaster.com.” anniversary tour,” states Christopher B. Manos, Producer of Theater of the Stars.  “We are [...]

XCEL choreographer Cici Kelley choreographed another episode of Tyler Perry’s House Of Payne. More about Cici Kelley and the agency here…

The opening of Cirque du Soleil‘s Viva ELVIS is predictable, nostalgic and – if you’re familiar with Elvis Presley‘s fabled Vegas years – utterly emotional. A chorus line of dancers, their backs to the empty seats of Aria Resort’s Elvis Theater, face a three-story black curtain spotted with Sun Records 45s. Booming over hundreds of [...]

A preliminary hearing is scheduled Monday for a man accused in the fatal stabbing of his 19-year-old roommate after he asked the defendant’s girlfriend to dance during a birthday party at a home the three shared in San Marcos.Hector Guatemala Cortes, 46, is charged with murder in the Aug. 23 slaying of Alfonso Gomez Gomez. [...]

Is any job in the arts more fraught than that of an artistic director who succeeds a company’s beloved founder? The list of modern-dance troupes who have limped into the margins after their creators’ deaths is long and sad. They survive, but to what end? More…