A performing art dedicated to the newest and boldest, like modern dance, rarely dwells in its past. There's something a bit odd about maintaining dance's certifiable classics in the active repertoire.

Hilla Ben Ari is reimagining a reimagining. The Tel Aviv–based multidisciplinary artist’s new work for the Limón Dance Company was inspired by the late Jose Limón’s 1949 The Moor’s Pavane, which in ...

Jose Limon's "The Moor's Pavane," now more than a half-century old, is one of the greatest works of 20th-century modern dance: a concentration, in its purest form, of Shakespeare's "Othello." Its ...

From the 1940s through the '50s, American choreographers produced a raft of enduring masterpieces: There was Balanchine's "The Four Temperaments," Jerome Robbins's "Fancy Free," Martha Graham's ...

Out in the country where we live, our neighbours keep a muster of peacocks. On the first wintry morning in our new abode, their colourful plumage cut quite a dash as they perused a recent snowfall.