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  In case Misty’s Under Armour campaign reveal a few weeks ago wasn’t big enough news, she’s (unsurprisingly) got more up her sleeve: a movie in the works. New Line Cinema has brought on Offspring Entertainment’s Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot to produce a feature film based on Misty’s memoir, Life In Motion: An Unlikely […]

The American Ballet Theatre soloist brings passion and power to all her roles.     Copeland, in costume for Prince’s Crimson and Clover music video. Photo by Matthew Karas.     It was a big deal when Misty Copeland was promoted to soloist in 2007—the first female African American ballet dancer to reach that status […]

Adult recreational performance opportunities are also transformative for those who never thought there was room for them in dance to begin with. “My idea of who could and couldn’t do ballet was very warped as a kid,” says Janay Lee, 25, an au pair who’s participated in the artÉmotion intensive the last two summers. For a long time, Misty Copeland was the only brown ballerina she knew of—none of the other stars she saw looked like her. Growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina, she did some dance at school and church, but didn’t start taking ballet until she was 18. “It’s like one of those dream careers that I never quite pursued.”

Winners of the Dance Magazine Awards, from 1954 to the present

Here are the latest promotions, appointments and departures, as well as notable awards and accomplishments, from March 2023.

Here are the latest promotions, appointments and departures, as well as notable awards and accomplishments, from November 2022.

The honorees for the 65th annual Dance Magazine Awards are Kyle Abraham, Lucinda Childs, Herman Cornejo, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Phd, and Dianne McIntyre.

When Houston Ballet demi soloist Naazir Muhammad soared across the airspace in Balanchine’s “Diamonds” last season, the roar of the crowd nearly overwhelmed Tchai­kovsky’s lush score. His pristine technique and sheer stage charisma took the performance-starved audience by surprise.