A female dancer on stage wearing a white tank and yellow pants. She is lunging, as if she's about to run, while holding a microphone in her right hand.

From Gibney Company to Sleep No More, Contemporary Dancer Eleni Loving Is Driven by Curiosity

Eleni Loving unspools movement like a magic trick. Dancing Twyla Tharp’s percussive The Fugue (1970/2024) with Gibney Company, she captures the work’s airy groundedness with precise musicality and a deadpan delivery. In Jermaine Spivey and Spenser Theberge’s Remains, she is a marionette who has cut her own strings, her gestures at once precisely calibrated and […]

Why Maria Kochetkova Has Said Goodbye to Company Life

Maria Kochetkova knows you can’t have everything. So the international ballet star is prioritizing one thing: Freedom. “The perfect company doesn’t exist,” she says. “For me, it is most important to have freedom as an artist. Our career is so short and I want to have opportunities that exist outside of companies. I want to […]

What It Takes To Thrive As a Freelance Dancer—In Any City

Building a freelance career takes guts, no matter where you’re based. Most dancers assume you need to live in major dance hubs like New York or Los Angeles to find enough work. But as these four dancers who are thriving in unique and burgeoning scenes prove, freelance opportunities abound. Emily Tarallo: Miami, Florida C Michael […]

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