Powering across a New York stage, Amelia Lowe was all white legs and sleek bob haircut in a high-waisted black dance skirt, the corners of her eyes drawn up and out with liner. If she put on a ...

THESE dancers take the expression “dance til you drop” a little too seriously. Clinging to their partners or even keeling over with exhaustion, the keen men and women were part of dance marathons that ...

Take note, jazz fans. And swing dance fans. And opera fans. And, oh yeah, ballet fans. St. Paul Ballet’s “Carmen in the 1920s” makes huge leaps in something-for-everyone crossover appeal. After all, ...

The Roaring Twenties brought us a gangster crime wave, talking movies, bobbed hair and illicit drinking places known curiously enough as blind pigs. And it was a decade in which women were liberated — ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. FARMINGTON — The sixth annual Speakeasy Dance Party will be on Saturday, Nov ...

The way we dance and move reflects who we are and where we are in history. That’s one of the reasons why choreographer Faith Jensen-Ismay thought to bring back this weekend’s “Blast From The Past: A ...

At the height of the Roaring Twenties, flappers took to the floor, arms flailing and feet kicking to a new beat: the Charleston. A century later, the dance still captivates—especially for performer, ...

Until the 1920s, dance movements were passed on from teacher to student mostly by demonstration. Jazz movements, for instance, could not be learned from dance scores, because there were none. In time, ...

One of Central Illinois' hottest dance halls in the wide-open Roaring Twenties was O'Neil's, located on a former dairy pasture just beyond Bloomington's western edge. In July 1922, area residents ...

Designed in the Spanish Colonial style, the home dates to 1925, the same year the silent film “The King on Main Street” was ...