Everybody dance now! In The Nutcracker, a little girl named Clara has a series of increasingly strange (some might say pseudo–psychedelic) dreams in which toys come to life and dance, mice come to life and dance, snowflakes dance, candy dances, coffee (!) dances. There’s combat, romance, international intrigue, bickering and family squabbles, all induced by sugar intake. There’s even a “Grandfather Dance.” The Nutcracker, you might say, has got it all. That’s a perhaps–too–simplistic way ...

For La Traversee: The Promising Voyage, his 90–minute dance suite about immigrants coming to America in the early 20th century, Vincent Brosseau needed only look to his own not–too–distant past for inspiration.

The big thing in Savannah theaters this Thanksgiving weekend is ... Christmas! That's right, we'll barely have the leftover turkey tucked into Ziploc bags before The Nutcracker, that venerable dance of tinsel-time joy, is upon us. There are two productions of The Nutcracker this year, each a mix of professional and non-professional ballet artists, each playing out to Tchaikovsky's brilliant seasonal music, rich in jingle bells, ho-ho-ho and dreamy crystalline snowflakes a-falling. They're both onstage ...

Technically, what Caitlin Dutton’s doing with her Coastal Danse Collective is called interdisciplinary arts – combining movement, music and visual art, in public places, in order to create something fresh and unexpected.

Those who can’t do, teach, goes the old saying. But Pablo Repun, who’s considered one of the finest tango dancers in all of South Florida, is also a teacher of considerable renown. As a native Argentinian, he’s got the dark eyes, the smoldering, mysterious good looks – and the fancy footwork – to aid and abet the “dance of love” on its unstoppable march across the lines of age, race and social strata.

For her spring production, Savannah Arts Academy artistic director Christina Powell decided to forgo the standard kid–ballet repertoire and look to something that hadn’t really been done before – at least not in her medium.

SCAD presents its world premiere of the dance performance The Station this weekend at the Trustees Theater. The light–hearted show brings together a total of 30 dancers and is the brainchild of SCAD performing arts professor Vincent Brosseau.

While most people conversant with the arts have heard of the great Hermitage, Kirov and Bolshoi ballet companies of Russia, there’s another major Russian company that in some estimations is the best of all.

If you’ve seen Avatar — and we’re guessing you probably have, since it’s the most successful movie in history — you’ve seen the sinuous, sensual movements of the extraterrestrial species known as the Na’vi.

The title is The Nutcracker in Savannah, but it might as well be called The Savannah in Nutcracker. Because there’s an awful lot of Savannah in this elaborate retelling of the holiday dance classic.

It’s last call at Club Sweets. Saturday’s performance of Swingin’ at Club Sweets will be the final one for the young dance students of The Studio. Director Veronica Moretti Niebuhr says her adaptation of The Nutcracker – staged by her students for five consecutive years at the Lucas Theatre – has run its course. “I’m always looking for more,” she says. “I want more. It’s a great show, and this doesn’t mean I could never ...

It’s a safe bet that not too many young people today know what a nutcracker is (it’s a simple mechanical device for cracking the shells of nuts, to get to the meat inside, and not the sort of food–processing tool everybody has lying around).

It’s a natural fit. For the first time, the Savannah Arts Academy’s award-winning Skyelite Jazz Band is joining forces with the school’s dance department.

  The presentation of Cinderella at the Savannah Arts Academy is a dream come true for the cast and the show’s director. "This is the first full-length ballet the Savannah Arts Academy has ever produced," Artistic Director Christina Powell says. Powell has taught at the school for four years, but this is her first as the head of the dance department. "We have strong dancers who are experienced in ballet technique," she ...