At age 14, Kate Stanforth was training to be a professional ballet dancer when she suddenly became unwell. She was ultimately diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), a chronic illness ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The dance service organization Dance/NYC has announced the 26 recipients of the ...

A dance festival is trying to break through misconceptions about disabled dance performers. The Forward Motion Dance Festival, being held Sept. 26 to Sept. 29, will showcase groundbreaking physically ...

1 What's Coming to Broadway in 2026: Upcoming Hits and Star Performances "Dance/NYC has demonstrated the vision to bring equity to dance through both its research and capacity to instigate important ...

Kinetic Light dancer Laurel Lawson arches her back off the floor as Alice Sheppard, with her knees in Laurel’s footplate, crawls on her forearms, creating an optical illusion. Hayim Heron Courtesy of ...

All bodies are not the same. All bodies do not move in the same ways. AXIS Dance Company was founded more than 30 years ago by women who wondered how disabled and nondisabled bodies could merge in the ...

10 people gather in a circle for the beginning of an AXIS Dance “community dance jam” — a workshop in an improvised dance form known as “contact improvisation.” AXIS Dance instructor Sophie Stanley ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - Abilities Dance in Boston’s South End is on a mission to create an inclusive environment for all dancers, no matter physical ability. The company hopes to challenge the perspectives of ...

Saira Barbaric contains multitudes. As an artist, they work in many mediums including dance, collage and film, and as a human, they inhabit many intersecting identities, including Black, trans and ...

Dance/USA, a national service organization for professional dance, is breaking grounds in the notably able-body dominated industry, as well as supporting dancers in marginalized communities to ...

More needs to be done to improve backstage accessibility for disabled performers according to the artistic director of a Belfast arts and disability organisation. Luminous Soul, run by Open Arts NI, ...

ROANOKE, Va – Tonight, Roanoke County Parks and Rec hosted the thirty ninth annual Valentine’s Dinner Dance. The dance allows disabled residents of the Roanoke area to have a night out and enjoy good ...