The Eastside is home to some top-notch school-based dance programs. These range from ballet and jazz to hip hop and ...

Rise Up School of Dance isn't just a place to learn ballet. "It's less about dance and more about people," said Alyssa Ruesch, executive director. Ruesch started the nonprofit to give kids from all ...

At a Monday rehearsal for co-artistic director Ron Cunningham's production of Peter Pan, members of the Sacramento Ballet are learning to go airborne for the first time. Several dancers are standing ...

How can a sequence of dance steps best be learned? This question was the subject of a recent project by a team of researchers working alongside dancers and dance instructors. Together they researched ...

As the world’s population ages, exercise advice targeting older adults has become more popular. Social dance, specifically, has been considered a good exercise for those of increasing age because it ...

Eager kids and teens in baggy pants, colorful fashion-forward athleisure and worn-in sneakers huddle outside of the famous Millennium Dance Complex in Studio City, California. About 150 people, ...

Rwanda, land of a thousand hills. A completely apt description of a country that is lush with life re-growing post genocide. I had the privilege of traveling to Kigali, Rwanda, twice; once in August ...