How Pros Prep for a Competition Where the Usual Rules Don't Apply

Picture this: You’re onstage about to perform, but you don’t have any choreography prepared, and you have no idea what the music will be. For most dancers, this is their literal worst nightmare. But for the 16 dancers at the Red Bull Dance Your Style U.S. finals in Las Vegas, NV, last weekend, that’s exactly […]

Burning Question: Is Nutcracker Racist?

Many productions feature the traditional Act II dances that have been challenged as negative stereotypes. We asked three directors their opinions. Ronald Alexander Program director of the professional training programs at Steps on Broadway and the director of Harlem School of the Arts Prep Program. The whole ballet tradition is inherently racist, so the traditional […]