Last year, it looked like “So You Think You Can Dance” might be on its final season. Viewership and ratings were down, and the show seemed to be trying to hang on by switching up its format, focusing on young talent ages 8 to 13 instead of the adult dancers audiences were used to. But […]

After a season experimenting with a younger cast, “So You Think You Can Dance” just announced that it’ll return to its traditional format this summer. “This season is about giving our loyal fan base what they’ve been asking for,” executive producer Nigel Lythgoe wrote in a press release. “We’ve decided to go back to basics by […]

Music videos are embracing concert dance more than ever. It was the music video the world couldn’t stop talking about. Sia’s “Chandelier” featured “Dance Moms” star Maddie Ziegler moving with reckless abandon in a forlorn apartment. The video became the 17th most viewed on YouTube, and won the award for Best Choreography at the 2014 […]

Dancers grooving at National Dance Day 2012. Photo Valerie Macon/Getty Images North America via Dance Spirit. For some of us, tomorrow is the best day of the summer. It’s National Dance Day! Now in it’s fifth year, the annual event was started by Nigel Lythgoe and the Dizzy Feet Foundation to fight obesity and celebrate […]

How has the rising popularity of competitions affected the concert dance world? Backstage at Youth America Grand Prix finals. Photo by Kyle Froman. Showstopper hosts more than 50 events each year. Photo courtesy Showstopper. A disembodied voice calls out a number, name, age and title of the dance. Out of the wings comes an expert […]

A street dancer at the “SYTYCD” NYC audition. Photo by Jeffrey Neira, Courtesy FOX.   “SYTYCD” Shake-Up Major changes are in store for Season 12. Another installment of FOX’s “So You Think You Can Dance” will premiere on June 1, and the show is promising a departure from former seasons. In its new “Stage vs. […]

Adé Chiké Torbert, Maria Kochetkova, and Allison Holker talk about TV’s impact.     ADÉ CHIKÉ TORBERT   Since finishing in the top four of So You Think You Can Dance Season 7, Adé Chiké Torbert has performed on Broadway in Fela! and NBC’s SMASH Season 2, and Dancing With the Stars. He appears in […]