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You walk in the studio and the first thing you do is check out your outfit in the mirror. As you work on a new piece of choreography, you use your reflection to get a sense of how it looks. When the choreographer gives you a correction, you peek at yourself again to correct it. […]

Here are the latest promotions, appointments and departures, as well as notable awards and accomplishments, from the last month. Comings & Goings Alexandra Damiani has been named artistic director of BJM-Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, succeeding Louis Robitaille in June. Sarah Sumbrum has been appointed artistic director of DANCECleveland. Felipe Oyarzun Moltedo has been named […]

Spring is in the air, and performance calendars are (dare we say it?) almost as busy as they ever have been, if still largely housed on the internet. This mix of online screenings, outdoor events and indoor performances for limited audiences caught our eye this month. Caged In Stefanie Batten Bland’s Kolonial Maria Baranova, Courtesy […]

This year in dance has no comparison. But that doesn’t mean there was nothing to love. Here are the dance highlights that the Dance Magazine team is looking back fondly on as 2020 comes to an end. Umbrella Academy’s Season Announcement “I’m a not-so-secret science fiction and fantasy nerd, so I would have been hype […]

The world looked different when I started rehearsals for the world tour of The Phantom of the Opera. It was January 2019, and my only concerns were to put on the best show possible and to enjoy my time on tour. That December, we settled down in the city of Busan to begin our nine-month […]

What’s next for the dance world? Our annual list of the dancers, choreographers and companies that are on the verge of skyrocketing has a pretty excellent track record of answering that question. Here they are: the 25 up-and-coming artists we believe represent the future of our field. Photo by Jayme Thornton Evan Ruggiero Evan Ruggiero’s […]

The students in Micaela Taylor’s class at Hollywood Dance Center are making strange faces at each other. “Exaggerate it as much as you can,” Taylor eggs them on, as her face contorts in her own series of riffs. Divided into pairs to work on a prompt to “tell each other a story influenced by your […]

This incomplete list of COVID-19 performance cancellations hints at the scope of the impact this pandemic is having on our community.