Dance

Kurt Andersen and novelist Rebecca Goldstein look at the ways artists, dancers, and filmmakers play with light. Goldstein is the author of Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics, The Mind-Body Problem, and Strange Attractors. She holds a Ph.D in Philosophy from Princeton University and in 1996 was awarded a MacArthur […]

The dance company bearing its pioneering founder’s name struggles to keep her work alive. (Originally aired: March 24, 2001)

The 82-year-old modern dance master Merce Cunningham describes whathappened when he began choreographing on a PC.

Kurt Andersen and choreographer David Dorfman explore the tactile and discover the significance of touch for dancers, sculptors, and musicians. Dorfman, an athlete turned dancer, is a choreographer, teacher, performer, and in 1985 founded David Dorfman Dance, a modern dance company which exuberantly combines fierce athleticism with humor and the stories of everyday life. Lauded […]

Through her pioneering dance performances at the turn of the last century, Loie Fuller magically captured the theatrical possibilities of light. (Originally aired: April 21, 2001)