Amateurs and professionals, ages 4-81, compete in the athletic world of dancesport
In the 1990s, ballroom dance organizations adopted the term Dancesport in a global effort to be a part of the Olympic games.
A look back at 2021 releases from Baltimore/DC-affiliated artists in anticipation for 2022
Entering 2022, it is gratifying that this city's music is still full of such vitality.
Gregory S. Smith brings two decades of arts administration, business management, and event production
After almost a year’s search, Creative Alliance announced its new executive director this week.
How the Highlandtown arts center builds community with all kinds of bombast
For the team behind Creative Alliance, building trust is an ongoing process.
Photos from behind the scenes at the Baltimore School for the Arts Nutcracker Ballet
Nearly 40 years ago, Baltimore School for the Arts started an annual winter tradition to perform the Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker featuring high school and TWIGS dancers in the BSA’s grand ballroom.
The legendary Baltimore punk band talks about its brief comeback, art and commercialism, and critical visceral performance
Around the end of August, Double Dagger announced their two-date shows at Ottobar and Current Space as a “once in a decade” event that would only be held in Baltimore in mid-October.
MAP’s retrospective celebrates 30+ years of Baltimore’s underground performance art showcase
A discussion with Laure Drogoul about her show at Maryland Art Place and the 14 Karat Cabaret, an “Exquisite Corpse Manifest”
Trial in the Woods explores rationality, violence, and the ethics of punishment through Barber’s trademark humor and wordplay
BmoreArt interviewed Barber over email about addressing violence, the fraught usage of animals as metaphors, shapeshifting concepts of “justice” and “community,” and more.
The Tuareg guitarist talks about poetry in translation, legacies of colonization, and building his first guitar using bicycle brake cables
Mdou Moctar's music carries memories through traditional guitar rhythms, a fusion between the desert nomads and modern diaspora.
Micah E. Wood's intimate portraits capture a bold musical vision
Color-saturated images of favorite Baltimore-based bands inspired by fashion, design, and art
Why the director of the performance series In the Stacks and curator at Hopkins' Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection wants you to listen to Classical music
"I’m inspired by these musicians that weren’t satisfied with the presenting platforms or ensembles that existed, so they just created new ones."
Photos by Josh Sinn from the release party for Turnstile’s latest project, Glow On at Clifton Park
A throng of Baltimore people protected stage divers from being hurt, allowing the brave and die-hard fans to leap into a sea of fans and surf in ecstasy and glory.
The West Baltimore rapper talks about his motivations, the thrill of performing, and what all the hard work is for
With his team, talent, and determination, Dawson will ascend and carry Baltimore with him wherever he goes.
Saturday's celebration at the Eubie Blake features music, art, food, workshops and more
The weekly show airs on WTMD on Friday nights
The show is a two-hour listening experience that is about experience, not acquisition.
In the Dark Circus Arts teaches a combination of athleticism and artistry
A career or hobby in circus is not an escape but rather a way of life.
Not so much an interview as one friend interrogating another, pushing him a little
Musician and MDVLA executive director Adam G. Holofcener’s new album GEE-ZA-WHIZ begins with a deep breath and a deeper exhalation
An interview with Ottobar’s Tecla Tesnau and Todd Lesser and WWR’s KK Yeh
Yeh, Tesnau, and Lesser spoke with me about the importance of a robust local music industry, adapting during the pandemic, and deeply missing the visceral experience of live music.
