Watch out, Chinese and pizza takeout joints: You’ve got serious competition. In the past few years, Washington’s to-go dining options have mushroomed, with everything from...

Dancers like to tell people that anyone can dance — just go where the music takes you. The idea that anyone can dance professionally, though, is another matter. And yet, the...

“We dancers love to move,” says Lucy Bowen McCauley, artistic director and choreographer for Bowen McCauley Dance. Well, sure they do. She’s making a particular point, t...

Bedbugs simply never crossed her mind. “I thought it was poison ivy, but it persisted,” says the Rockville, Md., woman, who found red welts on her skin. She declined to gi...

There’s a daunting task ahead for the performers staging the piece “De-Generate” at CityDance’s Studio Theatre this weekend. Call it an exercise in improvisation or in...

Modern dance gets a bad rap for being abstract and obscure, and that’s the first thing that sets contemporary dance company Lucky Plush apart from the pack. The Chicago-base...

Apple season arrived early this year, delighting Gala groupies, Pink Lady lovers and Golden Delicious devotees alike. Some aficionados argue the crunchy fruit is best eaten ra...

One of Indonesia’s leading contemporary dance groups, Nan Jombang, is visiting D.C. as part of the State Department’s new Center Stage exchange program, which welcomes ens...

Last week, new dance club Tropicalia quietly opened beneath Subway at the corner of 14th and U streets, and the owners — folks who’ve had their hands in D.C.’s dance sce...

The fig deserves a little sympathy. Though beloved by Mediterraneans of all stripes, it’s known to many Americans only as the dried filling of a certain chewy, mass-produced...

At first, Emily Oleson just wanted to re-create an old-time vaudeville variety show, with dance, comedy and singing all sharing the stage. By the time she was done, Oleson had...

They’re two art forms that have roots in African American culture, but stepping and hip-hop have less in common than you might think. Stepping — a performance style common...

Every dance company likes to think the work it’s doing is unusual. But Oakland, Calif.-based Axis Dance Company explores styles of movement that are truly innovative. “You...