Hair discrimination shows up in more spaces than we may think. This includes everything from Venus Williams’s beads deemed a “disturbance” in 1999, to swim caps for Black hair banned by the Olympics ...

Hong Kong action choreographer and actor Yuen Cheung Yan, who was known for playing iconic supporting roles in movies, has died at the age of 69. The territory’s media reported that he died from ...

Veteran Hong Kong actor and action choreographer Yuen Cheung-yan has died at the age of 69. Yuen, who was born in Hong Kong in 1957, died at noon on New Year’s Day at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau ...

His late father was an actor and martial artist who starred alongside actors such as Jackie Chan AN ACTOR who appeared in Kung Fu Hustle has died at the age of 69. Yuen Cheung-yan also choreographed ...

NPR's A Martinez speaks with choreographer Doug Varone about his decision to cancel upcoming performances by his dance company at the Kennedy Center. We hear now from one of the artists who canceled ...

Carmen de Lavallade, a dancer who defied boundaries of race and age and touched almost every realm of the performing arts in a career of more than six decades, died Monday in Englewood, New Jersey.

Dances Patrelle has announced the passing of its founder, Francis Patrelle. He passed at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, FL, in the afternoon on December 27, 2025. Francis was born on May 10, 1947 to ...

Over six decades she worked in theater, opera, film and television alongside luminaries like Alvin Ailey, Lena Horne, Agnes de Mille and Harry Belafonte. Carmen de Lavallade in 2018. She continued to ...

Choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall tells IndieWire about designing the movements and intention to move through trauma for the founders of the Shaker movement in "The Testament of Ann Lee." “I’ve spent a ...