While undoubtedly best known for her dancing, American Ballet Theatre principal Isabella Boylston has also been getting noticed for her style by Allure and Vogue—and with good reason. Her Instagram feed features a mix of on-trend athleisure wear and detailed dresses from runway designers like Valentino and Anna Sui, none of which would be complete […]
Dancers trying their hand at designing is nothing new. But they do tend to stick with studio or performance-wear (think Miami City Ballet’s Ella Titus and her line of knit warm-ups or former NYCB dancer Janie Taylor and her ballet costumes). But several dancers at American Ballet Theatre—corps members Jamie Kopit, Erica Lall, Katie Boren, […]
We can always count on NOWNESS to reimagine our dance faves by pairing them with equally esteemed cinematographers for short films that feel almost dreamlike (take a look back at their video with ABT’s Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside for more amazingness). For their newest creation as a part of their Directors’ Cuts series, NOWNESS […]
It’s fitting that choreographer Benjamin Millepied named a recent work On the Other Side. After a difficult two-year tenure as artistic director of the Paris Opéra Ballet, he is happily settled in Los Angeles and reemerging with big plans for L.A. Dance Project, the contemporary company he founded there in 2012. Today, his ambitious vision […]
Watching your peers in class, rehearsal, and performance, you tend to develop a sharp eye for dance. This sensitivity, this visual alertness, sometimes finds expression in photography. In fact, many of the photographers Dance Magazine relies on were dancers first: Rosalie O’Connor, Erin Baiano, Matthew Murphy, Kyle Froman, and Alexander Iziliaev, to name a few. […]
The astonishing thing about the women of New York City Ballet is that even with the retirement of two of the company’ most magnificent dancers, the bench of remarkable women is still deep. The six-week winter season that just ended brought this home to me. Needless to say, I will miss Jenifer Ringer and Janie […]
What were your favorite performances of the year? Our team of editors and writers nominated the best shows we saw in 2016. But you had the final vote—here’s what moved you the most. By Guillermo Perez, Madeline Schrock, Hedy Weiss and Lauren Wingenroth Andy Huntington Jones as Munkustrap. PC Matthew Murphy, Courtesy DKC/O&M. CATS Best […]
“I hate dancing more than I can possibly explain,” declares the unmistakable voice of British actor and comedian Stephen Fry. It’s not the most reassuring statement to hear at the beginning of a dance video. Yet Jo Roy, a Los Angeles-based dancer-choreographer-director, has taken Fry’s rant (from what Fry calls a “podgram,” better known as a podcast, […]
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