Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Friends and neighbors have turned to a GoFundMe campaign to aid a longtime leading couple on the Columbia arts scene. Jeanne ...

Michael Scott, America's most famous paper company manager, once declared that funk was both the problem and solution. Summer in the Midwest can be like that. Sometimes the best way to cool down from ...

As of Dec. 1, Columbia Ballet Academy will be the new Boone County Family Resources provider for DanceAbility, a program offering dancers with different abilities from ages 4 and up an opportunity to ...

Extracurriculars is a new series within Columbia News dedicated to showcasing the many clubs and organizations that exist at ...

A Columbia dance program is set to celebrate 10 years of setting bodies in forward motion. The Mareck Center for Dance — formerly Missouri Contemporary Ballet — will mark a decade of the DanceAbility ...

Over a hundred community members gathered in the Roone Arledge Auditorium on Sunday night for Ijoya’s first ever showcase, a landmark event for the Columbia African dance team. Under the auditorium’s ...

COLUMBIA — In a vacant glass repair shop on Marion Street late one Saturday, dozens of bodies writhed, shuffled and bounced to the steady beat of Chris Johnson’s DJ set. In the lulls between drowning ...

Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton students may bear different school colors, but the shine of a black leotard or the satin texture of a pointe shoe intertwine these students together as performers and ...

Ballet requires a certain strength, a certain discipline and rigor to achieve greatness. It's something Brianna Taylor knows well. But the rigid guardrails of traditional ballet can be stifling.

Elise Heitkamp has known Aiyanna Williams for at least 10 years. Heitkamp was her dance teacher at the School of Missouri Contemporary Ballet. "She obviously was a phenomenal dancer, she was ...