Choreography
LONDON (AP) — Liam Scarlett, a star British choreographer whose career was clouded by abuse allegations, has died. He was 35.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A University of Illinois dance professor has received a 2021 United States Artists Fellowship.
WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — The man who designed some of the world’s most advanced dynamic robots was on a daunting mission: programming his creations to dance to the beat with a mix of fluid, explosive and expressive motions that are almost human.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — From skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac to learning Cardi B’s rump-shaking choreography, TikTok users got creative in a pandemic year with new songs, dances and memes in 60 seconds or less.
NEW YORK (AP) — Four years after they debuted as the next buzzed-about girl group on the K-pop music scene, BLACKPINK’s lofty dreams in music have come into fruition.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama State University’s marching band is taking its talents to the NFL.
LONDON (AP) — “The Inheritance”, an epic drama about gay lives in New York, and musicals “Come From Away” and “Company” were the big winners at British theater’s Olivier Awards on Sunday, receiving four trophies apiece.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” star Alfonso Ribeiro has been denied a copyright for the “Carlton” dance, which he’s suing two videogame makers over.
NEW YORK (AP) — Working on “Mary Poppins Returns” put Lin-Manuel Miranda in a comfort zone, sort of.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Dance majors from a central Mississippi university will be the only to represent the state on a national stage in a collegiate dance competition this summer.
TYNGSBORO -- Join the students and staff at the Academy of Notre Dame for a “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” musical experience this spring.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Hadeel Haider has lost enough sleep in the past decade.

The Iraqi refugee had nightmares in her native country when it was ravaged by war.
Angela Conrad was named the 2017 Grand Champion, receiving 548 votes for her performance at the Dancing with the Lake Houston Stars event Thursday night, April 27.
A little taste of Broadway is available this weekend as Rome Middle School’s Grand Illusion performs at the historic DeSoto Theatre.
DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — A summer trip to Disney World in Orlando last year so inspired Ashlie Wells that before the movie “Moana” even hit theaters, Wells started working on choreography for a dance production about the strong-willed daughter of a Polynesian chief trying to save her tribe’s island.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The rhythmic crack and pop of Brazilian drums filled a classroom at the Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts, and students dressed in dance attire began to sway, shimmy and tap their feet against the hardwood floor.
NEW YORK (AP) — Tap dance into yesteryear with the romantic sensibility of Irving Berlin in the lively new show “Holiday Inn — The New Irving Berlin Musical.”
NEW YORK (AP) — Many theater-lovers are looking at Saturday with dread. That’s the day key members of the Broadway cast of “Hamilton” play their last performance.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Jimmy Buffett musical making its world premiere next year in California has a new name and a Tony Award-winning creative support team.
NEW YORK (AP) — A colossal international effort has yielded the first comprehensive look at how our DNA works, an encyclopedia of information that will rewrite the textbooks and offer new insights into the biology of disease.