dance

Published
March 18, 2025

Maine State Ballet presents ‘Don Quixote’ for four weekends
Published
January 28, 2025

Portland Ballet goes to Colby College. The assignment? Create a new work from scratch.

Eleven Colby students are working alongside the professional dance company on a new piece inspired by Maine's landscape, history and lighthouses to be performed in Westbrook and Waterville.
Published
January 9, 2025

From the Chocolate Church: New dance-theater piece premiering at CCAC
Published
December 24, 2024

Local community theater to hold auditions for ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
Published
September 14, 2024

Ballerina Michaela DePrince, whose career inspired many after she was born into war, dies at 29

DePrince was adopted by an American couple and by age 17 she had been featured in a documentary film and had performed on the TV show 'Dancing With the Stars.'

Published
August 13, 2024

From the Chocolate Church: African music and dance group a unique fusion of styles
Published
August 10, 2024

Cringy moves and a white b-girl’s durag prompt questions about Olympic breaking’s authenticity

From the Australian b-girl with the meme-worthy “kangaroo” dance move to the silver-medal winning Lithuanian in a durag, breaking’s Olympic debut had a few moments that raised questions.
Published
July 29, 2024

Portlanders frustrated by online fees are buying concert tickets straight from the box office

There's an open secret spreading around the city: Tickets at some of the largest venues are cheaper if you buy them in person.
Published
July 22, 2024

Hogfish’s summer show is part opera, part dance party

Poulenc based his 1945 opera on the 1917 surrealist play 'The Breasts of Tiresias.'
Published
July 10, 2024

Contra dance enthusiasts bring new energy to traditional form

In the years since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down all dances, the state scene has been experiencing a renaissance.