Convention teaching 101 Alex Wong instructs students at Excel in Motion convention. Photo: Courtesy Excel in Motion “At a convention, you have the chance to share your knowledge and what you believe about being an artist with 1,500 kids—in a single weekend,” says choreographer Mandy Moore, who has been on […]
Ann Marie DeAngelo can put on a good show (she produces the Career Transition For Dancers gala every year), but she outdid herself with the Capezio 125th Anniversary Celebration. The narrative about shoes, sprinkled with humor and acrobatics, pulled this show together. Yes, the whole evening was sort of an infomercial, to quote Elizabeth Zimmer. […]
10 random musings regarding the Capezio 125th Anniversary Gala. 10. Tommy Tune worked a bespoke red suit and custom tap shoes that were just unbelievably cool. When he came on the stage, everyone squealed with glee. It was a 3-piece suit and the custom Capezio shoes were covered in rhinestones and had a slight heel. […]
Six choreographers on making work for film. The LXD: Legion of Extraordinary Dancers in the episode on Hulu, “I Seen a Man.” Photo courtesy LXD. Cameras are everywhere these days—in our phones, our computers—turning us all into potential filmmakers. For choreographers, it means envisioning their dances in terms of the frame […]
Dancers today are expected to operate with a full box of crayons, not just a single color. From wide-ranging genres on So You Think You Can Dance to the inclusion of modern work in ballet company repertoires, versatility is synonymous with marketability. It can mean adding a specialty like aerial dance, learning a world dance […]
They’ve got ballet in their blood. Colleen Neary has been dancing since she was 8; her husband, Thordal Christensen, since he was 6. Today, the couple is on a mission: to bring ballet to the cultural masses of Los Angeles, a town not known to be pointe-shoe–friendly. Having founded Los Angeles Ballet in 2006, the […]
It’s every commercial dancer’s dream: You move to Los Angeles, get an agent within your first week, and are immediately inundated with job offers. Because someone else is doing the hard part—finding audition opportunities, getting your name out there—all you have to do is show up and dance. After all, you’re talented enough that you […]
These days you can’t swing a sequined dress without hitting a dance reality TV show. Every major network has its angle on them: from contestants competing weekly in front of a live audience, to behind-the-scenes looks at the lives of commercial dancers trying to make the cut, to “celebrities” paired with professionals fox-trotting their way […]
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