Have you ever been to a dancer wedding? They’re usually unlike any other. Beautifully fit people dressed to the nines? Check. Great taste when it comes to decorations and wardrobe? Check. Serious dance floor moves? Check, check, check! Martha Stewart Weddings just released videos of Tiler Peck and Robert Fairchild’s wedding last summer, and not […]
Leave it to Susan Stroman to come up with a new idea for a musical. In just this last Broadway season, her Big Fish told whimsical stories, and Bullets Over Broadway made everybody laugh so hard. Now she is working on a musical about Degas’s famous sculpture, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. Created in 1881 by […]
NYCB’s youngest principal dancer has gained artistry beyond her years. Just days before Tiler Peck’s debut as Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty—one of the most challenging roles in the classical repertory, and a rite of passage for any ballerina—the cheery dancer breezes into the rehearsal studio wearing a hoodie and a white practice […]
The second she appeared, the whole stage came alive. She was light and happy as the 16-year old princess, but not too happy. She never pushed it. She danced with her customary crispness, but also with the assurance and graciousness befitting a girl who is the hope of the kingdom. No, she didn’t balance for […]
A new generation of competition-kids-turned-ballet-dancers is making its mark. Madison Brown and Brady Farrar, both dancers with American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, have roots in not only dance competitions but competitive TV shows:
Summer festival season is underway, boasting a staggering number of must-see performances. Here are a handful of highlights, along with a pair of July premieres happening outside any festival umbrella. American Dance Festival DURHAM, NC The modern dance festival’s 90th-anniversary season blazes on through July 22, with 32 performances featuring 13 festival commissions, 9 premieres, […]
Some dancers reveal their truest selves in performance, heightening and deepening the qualities that make them who they are. Onstage, Chun Wai Chan is forthright and generous, regal but not aloof, with an open countenance that complements an uncluttered technique.
During the pandemic, Teddy Forance and Jon Arpino, founders of the popular online dance training platform CLI Studios, felt the time was right to fill a void in the dance industry. Forance, who grew up in the competitive dance world studying a range of styles, felt there was something missing in the education process for […]
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