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NBC hosted auditions at Hippodrome for "Hairspray Live" Thursday morning.

As a narrative, performance artist and dancer D’Agostino’s “The Swan,” performed at E.M.P. Collective and later at LabBodies’ Performance Art Review, at times

'Dancing with the Stars' Season 23 kicked off with a kerfuffle, as two protesters rushed the stage during Ryan Lochte's performance.

Alvin Ailey II dancers Jessica Pinkett and Courtney Spears return to their Baltimore roots for performance at Towson University.

Rebecca Polen "Becky" Hartman Obituary

If you’ve had a lifelong dream of starring in a "Hairspray" production, here's your chance.

Karen Hillsley and Jeff Meyer met at the University of Delaware; they were married in Ellicott City in May.

Local dancers answer singer FKA twigs' call for free workshop in Baltimore on Tuesday night.

Dance troupes came from Baltimore suburbs, Boston, Atlanta and Los Angeles, everywhere between. Boys and girls, parents and grandparents, they skipped and whooped out into the finale of the 15th Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival.

Three years ago, it was anything but certain that Imani Rollins was going to graduate high school.

Ballet Theatre of Maryland to establish a residency at The Lyric.

Ginger Zee, Nyle DiMarco and Paige VanZant face off in Part 1 of the Season 22 finale of "Dancing With the Stars."

For one day each year since 2011, dancers and performance artists take over the bridges, parking lots, playgrounds, streets, and buildings in Station North for

The top 5 go head-to-head and face a double elimination

Several Anne Arundel County residents are taking their turns on the stage in Columbia these days — either on two feet, or four — in the magical production of "Peter Pan" at Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia.

For Judges Team-Up Night on "Dancing With the Stars," each judge choreographs a number for a team of contestants.

For 25 years, the Carroll County Dance Center has taught the art of dance to a generation of ballet and dance enthusiasts.

It's icons night on "Dancing With the Stars" and they're playing Donna Summer, but WAIT -- what have they done to Erin Andrews in hair and makeup???

"Peter Pan" has been a magical tale since its December 1954 Broadway opening. For more than 60 years in countless revivals, the story of a boy who refuses to grow up has retained its charm, and is sparkling again in the current production at Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia.

More than 30 Baltimore public school students leapt into their dancing dreams Monday during a modern dance master class taught by professionals from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and select Baltimore students will shake off a case of the Mondays today with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

It's Disney night on "Dancing With the Stars!" Gotta love that corporate synergy! The opening number is "Be Our Guest" with a disco twist and with Val

Westminster is the hub of entertainment in Carroll County this week, as the city hosts celebrations of fine food, live entertainment and physical activity.

Anyone who's been reading these "Dancing With the Stars" recaps for any length of time knows that "My Most Memorable Year" is my least favorite of the theme nights. And I'm already feeling a bit cranky anyway. I'm like Len when he hasn't had his porridge that morning.

Dale W. Sehnert, former head of the dance department of the preparatory department of the Peabody Institute who also was on the faculty of Boys' Latin School, died March 29 of congestive heart failure at the Pickersgill Retirement Community in West Towson. He was 91.

Geraldo Rivera and Edyta Sliwinska became the first couple eliminated from Season 22 of "Dancing With the Stars" in Monday night's episode

In 1997, the first Disney Channel Original Movie was released. "Brink," the long-running series' first sports film, came out the following year. Its story followed a made-for-cable-TV archetype: Protagonist and antagonist rise to athletic prominence. Turf war ensues. Goodness and decency prevail.

"Dancing with the Stars" is back! And so is Len Goodman! And the original "Throw on a bikini and a bedsheet and call it a rumba costume" pro, Edyta Sliwinska! Happy day!

Howard County showcases its artistic talent at the Howard County Arts Council's 19th annual Celebration of the Arts at Howard Community College's Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center on Saturday, March 19, from 6 to 10 p.m.

Baltimore School for the

Although confidence and stage presence were a work-in-progress, Sarah Grace Hart said it was Columbia's support of the arts that led her to Los Angeles, California in 2013 to pursue an acting career, following graduation from Kent State University in Ohio. There, she joined the Shipwrecked Comedy production company, which places a comedic spin on historical literary content through a YouTube web series as told by famous authors.

For the third consecutive year, the county will hold the Take a Leap Dance Celebration.

In 2011, Tracy Jerome founded the nonprofit Aspire2Move, to help her daughter and families like theirs support their children's dance talents.

As colorful abstractions projected on the ceiling dance to the sound of chimes, three actors move forward and back on a runway, their arms rigid at their sides as they flip around with each careful step, confined to a single line. Thus is the reality of the denizens of Line Land, anthropomorphized geometric shapes who are helplessly constricted as the two-dimensional Chromatistes blinks in and out of their view in the first interdimensional interaction of Flatland. "Flatland," a stage adaptation

Two students at Lansdowne and another local student have been picked for Baltimore County Public Schools All-County Honors Dance Ensemble

Common Ground on the Hill hosts production by Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble

Oktoberfest introduces competitions in fourth year

Eight dancers are in pain. One grabs her breast and shudders. Another focuses on her folded hands, turning them over and over as drums beat in the distance. A third punches the air. Yet they manage to come together, raising their arms in unison against an unseen foe. This is the opening to "328-HOPE," the Full Circle Dance Company's modern dance staging of a woman's battle against breast cancer.

Whether it's dancers, musicians or actors, these young up-and-coming artists in the Baltimore region are eager to make their mark in the world. Here's a look at five local talented young performers rising to the top.

Howard County datebook

Now I'm super-conflicted and tense about who's going to win. I'd be happy with either one, but I think I have a slightly more emotional pull toward a Rumer win.

It's the finals of "Dancing With the Stars"! Where did this season go?

For the past year, Cheryl Stansfield, of Westminster, has traveled with "Dirty Dancing" as a props assistant

Dads Works' annual dance – especially for dads, daughters – set for May 16 at Legion in Westminster

In this season of homecomings (proms, reunions, and recitals), three of our topnotch dancers return to their roots for two separate programs that should delight both young and old, professional and amateur, balletomanes and street dance fans.