Welcome to our 80th-anniversary issue! It’s been a heady ride, looking back at all that Dance Magazine has covered, and we want to give you a glimpse of the amazing treasure chest that is our archives. This project has been spearheaded by our mightily curious associate editor Emily Macel. While burrowing through bound copies of […]
Dancers, in the pursuit of the joy of dance, undergo a hailstorm of hardships: bodily injuries, scrawny salaries, and a cruelly short career span. But no one could have foretold the medical nightmare that raged during the last two decades of the 20th century, when AIDS assaulted the dance community. For those too young to […]
He’s choreographed for Ben Vereen, Shirley Bassey and those lovable big-eyed Muppets. And, like the film character Billy Elliott who studied ballet against the wishes of a working-class father, this native Liverpudlian got hooked on dance at age 10. He went on to study tap and jazz, contemporary and European folk at the Hylton-Bromley School […]
“Once you come in that door, the arms embrace you. It’s a rare jewel here—just a little piece of heaven. Aunt Joan doesn’t know any other way to be. She’s a nurturer, a fighter, a giver, a believer.” —Kim Bears-Bailey Walk into the Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco) School of Dance Arts building and, like Dorothy, […]
On a brightly-lit stage, members of Axis Dance Company climb on one another like mountaineers, scaling each other’s wheelchairs as they pull their bodies upward. Feet replace hands and elbows lock with knees. Forming a tableau of mutual support, they are wheeled towards the audience as though part of a slow-moving wave. They are performing […]
It’s hard out there for a vamp. Not only do the ballerinas of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo tackle the daunting responsibilities of a diva, but they also portray their Prince Charmings. This all-male troupe has the pressure to demonstrate technical proficiency on pointe, perform double tours en l’air, and, yes, be funny. […]
Former New York City Ballet dancer Linda Hamilton, Ph.D., is a lecturer, a psychologist in private practice, and the author of Advice for Dancers (Jossey-Bass). She has been offering advice to Dance Magazine readers since 1992. My schedule is insane! I’m taking three dance classes a day, working evening shifts as a waitress, and have […]
Human institutions, from nations to businesses, never remain the same. Seen from the perspective of history, they are either on the way up or on the way down. Britain’s 75-year-old Royal Ballet is no exception. From its founding in 1931 by Ninette de Valois, it was moving up and up, despite a few doubts during […]
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