Peter Max (born Peter Max Finkelstein, October 19, 1937) is a German-American artist known for using bright colours in his work. Works by Max are associated with the visual arts and culture of the 1960s, particularly psychedelic art and pop art. Max, the son of German Jews, fled Berlin in 1938, sett

Performed on the shores of the Great South Bay July 15-17, Fire Island Dance Festival raised $655,090 to help ensure those across the country living with HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and other debilitating illnesses have access to lifesaving medications, counseling, healthy meals, housing and more. Produced b

Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel: Seven thousand cubic meters of concrete were poured to form the base of the world's largest emergency underground hospital. For 36 hours running, shifts of 70 workers and 80 cement mixers worked to lay the foundation of the emergency facility, which is design...

Dancers Responding to AIDS, founded in 1991 by former Paul Taylor Dance Company members Denise Roberts Hurlin and Hernando Cortez, is a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, one of the nation's leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon...

In this fifteen installment of "Male Ballet Dancers" we feature the outstanding Vaganova Ballet Academy and their male sutendts progress. .With a history dating back more than four hundred years, ballet has progressed from Renaissance court pageantry to royal entertainment to full-fledged performi

Jimmy and The Roots to perform a social distancing version of Men Without Hats' "The Safety Dance" with instruments made from household items for One World:special.

Fire Island Dance Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary edition July 18-20, 2014, with artistry, gravity-defying movement, romance and remembrance, raising a record-shattering $533,860 for Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.The festival, performed outdoors

In 2009, at the height of Black Eyed Peas’ Fergie era, “I Gotta Feeling” was the song of the new century. An uptempo dance song produced by David Guetta, the anthem was revered almost from the moment it was released. The Grammy Award-winner for Pop Performance of the Year and the longest running sin

The White House celebrates christmas with a tap dance of the Nutcracker. The Nutcracker ballet was composed in 1892 by the Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky based on a story written in 1816 by Prussian author Ernest Hoffman, not even close to anything American. Not until 1934 was it performed out...

World Ballet Day 2022 returns for its ninth year, bringing together a host of the world’s leading companies for a packed day of dance. Over the course of the day, rehearsals, discussions and classes will be streamed for free across six continents, offering unique behind-the-scenes glimpses of ball