IN DANCE MUSIC, the combination of studio technology and human inspiration yields such incredible volume and variety, the naming of subgenres and even subsubgenres has become almost compulsory. But ...

San Francisco Ballet's Evelyn Cisneros has always been big on passing her knowledge on to younger dancers. Active in outreach programs during her 23 years as a company principal, she is now the ballet ...

Leading something of a double life–immersed in academia as a Johns Hopkins University grad student by day and DJ by night– is a regular at the Ottobar’s weekly Tensday party, where he spins tonight.

Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm’s “Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies” arrested audiences last season by making a whip-smart comedy around Trayvon Martin’s tragedy. That sounds irreverent, but it’s not: ...

In the breathtakingly on-point new comedy “Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies,” one of the two young black men sharing a jail cell was trespassing while “Trayvoning,” the real-life meme of kids lying ...