Dance Studies professor and author Rachel Carrico moved to New Orleans, like so many young creatives, in the years after Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the federal levees that flooded 80 percent ...

Growing up in Algiers and Uptown, dancer Michelle Gibson felt tugged in two directions. As a preacher’s daughter, she was expected to be sitting in a church pew on Sundays. But, as a dancer, her feet ...