Partnering is an essential part of a professional dance career—but how can you keep those skills up to date as an adult?

These days, headshots and dance shots are a performer’s gateway into any audition. They’re the first thing casting directors and artistic directors see of you—a first impression, if you will—making quality images a necessity. But for me, photographs documenting my dancing and my likeness go beyond being crucial audition materials. After nine years off of […]

Advice is tricky. It can be presumptuous, judgmental. Medicinal. Obligatory. Revelatory? I don’t consider myself to be an advice giver, and yet I regularly share a morsel that one of my college professors gave me two decades ago: “When you find a teacher you admire, even if not an educator in the formal sense, go […]

When Emmanuel Malette graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2016, he was eager to move to a bigger city and pursue a career as a dancer. He decided on Atlanta, spent two years finding his financial footing and then a third year saving up the money he needed to relocate. But […]

I have always felt a need to communicate and, even more importantly, to be understood. But as a child, I always hit an emotional wall when trying to speak. Although my great-aunt Rose had no connection to dance, she intuitively saw that I needed an outlet, and recommended that I take a movement class. It […]

It’s not uncommon to hear dancers planning for their “second act”: what they will do after their performance career ends. Wrapped into this term is an assumption that the skills a dancer has developed are valueless in other work environments. But as the rest of the world panics to create a workforce that will withstand […]