What Steven Spielberg Taught Dancer Kellie Drobnick on the Set of West Side Story

After graduating from The Juilliard School in 2016, Kellie Drobnick immediately set about conquering the worlds of concert dance, Hollywood and musical theater. She spent two months dancing with MOMIX, toured in the Dirty Dancing musical, joined Twyla Tharp Dance and is a Jet in the much-anticipated West Side Story remake, directed by Steven Spielberg […]

Happy Anniversary to the Dance Movie That's Never Gone Out of Style

Amid all of the excitement over the solar eclipse, it might be easy to overlook that today also marks a very important anniversary. We’ll give you a hint: It’s a dance film with awesome music, a socially-conscious heroine and an iconic final dance sequence. Oh, and a watermelon. That’s right. Dirty Dancing came out 30 […]

What It Takes To Dance With Diabetes

When Katelyn Prominski came down with swine flu in 2009, she never quite recovered. Six months later, she remembers, “I started feeling super-exhausted, super-hungry, always thirsty. Just really, really run down.” Then a corps member with Pennsylvania Ballet, Prominski didn’t know that the virus had triggered Type 1 diabetes. The disease is normally diagnosed in […]

3 Classic Dance Movies Making a Comeback This Month

New Year’s resolutions don’t always have to be difficult or boring. To prove it, we challenge you to take on these two lighthearted resolutions for 2017: Go to more movies. Brush up on your dance history. And we’re making it really easy for you. Thanks to Fathom Events’ upcoming programming of old movie musicals and classic dance films, you can kill […]