Need a little oomph as you step back into the studio post-holiday? Let these six dancers provide you a dose of inspiration to start the year off on the right foot. Never stop pushing yourself. During a recent class, dance legend Debbie Allen shared some major wisdom—and tough love—with her students. The lesson: Dancers don’t […]

Nigel Lythgoe put his foot in his mouth last year. He and Debbie Allen were on a panel at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, and Lythgoe started saying that what the Los Angeles scene needed was a dance festival. “I was shouted down and told, ‘Well, we have got a dance festival!’ […]

I come from a lineage of survivors: African Americans who endured the brutality of slavery, Native Americans who survived forced genocidal migration, and my Jewish grandmother who escaped the Holocaust. My ancestors’ enduring spirits live inside of me, giving me an indelible foundation of strength and compassion. On the bookshelves my mom filled in our […]

January 16 might as well be a Broadway holiday. Three gigantic names were born on this day, in 1908, 1950 and 1980, and they represent three distinct eras of powerhouse musicals. Without them, there’d be no belting Reno Sweeney, no “Fame”-ous Lydia Grant and no rapping Alexander Hamilton. Happy birthday to these indelible superstars. Ethel […]