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The train whistle couldn’t have been more effective if it had been planned. Metal wheels rumbled loudly along the track outside Goodson Yard on the Goat Farm, a former industrial site in west Midtown. It set the tone for choreographer Lauri Stallings’ latest work with gloATL, “This Is a World.” The Friday evening performance was [...]

“Perpetual motion” could describe the fluid, ongoing quality that fills the Woodruff Arts Center’s symphony rehearsal hall, as eight or nine gloATL dancers work with choreographer Lauri Stallings, developing a movement language. On sudden impulses, they move as if reversing the pull of gravity; energy shoots through their bodies and up out of the ground [...]

There is an upset or two on this year’s lineup of Modern Atlanta Dance Festival choreographers, Douglas Scott told me last Saturday at a performance by his company, Full Radius Dance. Some “in” groups from the past are out; others, not chosen recently, were pleasantly surprised. Whether due to the judges’ tastes or a creative [...]

“It’s not the ballet — we can be loud.” Five minutes into the show, the dancers of Step Afrika! summon the audience into a foot-stamping, hand-clapping, body-slapping call-and-response exchange through the African-American percussive dance form known as stepping. Making their own music, dancers strike bravado moves with military precision, as successive waves of syncopated rhythms [...]

This is Daryl Foster’s second piece for ArtsCriticATL. He is the founder and co-artistic director of LIFT, an organization built to attract and retain male dancers in Atlanta through performances and mentoring. — Cynthia It is around 9:45 a.m. when I arrive at the Park Slope home of Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, choreographer and artistic director of Urban [...]

2010 might be remembered as the year dance took the driver’s seat among the arts in Atlanta. Dance showed the rest of the local performing arts community how to explore, express and innovate — while attracting sizable audiences, generous patrons and critical accolades. More than the other arts, dance in 2010 was a hot topic [...]