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6.2KDancing at the Smithsonian with Dana Tai Soon Burgess
By Leigh Schanfein. When you dance, do you think about who came before you? Do you wonder why we use specific terminology,...
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4.1KBudding, Not Yet Blooming: Four Young, Emerging Chicago Choreographers
By Tara Sheena (with the help of Julie Nakagawa of DanceWorks Chicago). Chicago has long been a hub for some of the...
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14.6KEasing Pre-Performance Nerves
By Laura Di Orio. Even though dancers can spend weeks, even months, rehearsing before a performance, sometimes the stage, lights and audience...
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6.2KLindsay Nelko is Living the Dream
By Stephanie Wolf. Canadian native Lindsay Nelko was born with the dance gene. Her mother was a dancer with the Royal Winnipeg...
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7.6KAyodele Casel reflects on her career in tap
“I am a hoofer, I value life, I believe in love, I’m surrounded by greatness.” – Ayodele Casel. By Winston Morrison. It only...
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5.1KBudding, Not Yet Blooming: Charlotte Bydwell
By Tara Sheena. Charlotte Bydwell is taking her career into her own hands. After graduating from the Juilliard School in 2009 and...
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6.2KThe CW’s ‘Breaking Pointe’ Returns for a Second Season
By Stephanie Wolf. Last summer, reality TV got a new look when The CW’s docu-series Breaking Pointe hit the airways. Aiming to...
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5.0KBallet or Bust
DI brings you the best from New York City’s bleak summer ballet calendar By Leah Gerstenlauer. It’s summer in New York City...
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9.1K‘Dance Academy’ star Dena Kaplan
By Renata Ogayar. Teen television hit Dance Academy Season Three has finished filming and will be available to view in America soon....
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5.1KNorth Carolina Dance Theatre: Promoting Healthy Dancers
By Stephanie Wolf. The blockbuster hit Black Swan had people gasping, “Is the ballet world really that harsh and horrific?” While some...
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10.4KDance on TV: Is it Hindering or Helping the Art Form?
By Stephanie Wolf. It’s no longer surprising to turn on the television during primetime and come across a reality show with a...
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6.0KWorld Bachata Champions 2013: Mitch and Ellicia
By Grace Edwards. Mitch Bilic and Ellicia McDonald recently took out the competition at the World Latin Championships in Hong Kong to...
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10.2KDwight Rhoden – looking back and leaping forward
By Chelsea Thomas. At 17 years old, Ohio native Dwight Rhoden was playing the clarinet, flute and drums in his high school’s...
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6.2KShaping Sound Hits the Road for its First National Tour
By Stephanie Wolf. With big dreams and big hearts, Travis Wall, Nick Lazzarini, Teddy Forance, and Kyle Robinson took on the greatest...
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7.3K1How To Make It In Tap
Interview with tap talent Joseph Wiggan By Winston Morrison. Would you like to tour in a world-class show? Winston Morrison catches up...
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6.1KLauren Gottlieb Goes Bollywood
By Kristy Johnson. Lauren Gottlieb has gone from So You Think You Can Dance to the silver screen, and doesn’t seem to...
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5.1KCanadian Choreographer Josh Beamish Takes the States by Storm
By Leah Gerstenlauer. Josh Beamish is on the move — again. The industrious young choreographer, who recently completed a triple-stop teaching tour...
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6.3KQueen Latifah & Richard Stoltzman to perform at NYCB’s 2013 Spring Gala
New York City Ballet has announced that award-winning singer and actress Queen Latifah and the legendary clarinetist Richard Stoltzman will appear as...
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5.1KRenee Robinson’s Swan Song
By Kathleen Wessel. After more than three decades with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, acclaimed dancer Renee Robinson will take her final...
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5.0KDefining Contemporary Dance in America Part IV: gloATL
By Stephanie Wolf. Atlanta, home of the Braves, hotspot for experimental foodies, site of the 1996 Olympics – it’s a city known...
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11.5K1The Miami HEAT courts The Miami City Ballet
By Chelsea Thomas. Professional basketball players and prima ballerinas might have a lot of differences – height, build, training and skills being...
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4.4KDefining Contemporary Dance in America Part III: Tu Dance of Minneapolis
By Stephanie Wolf. The recent onslaught of commercial dance in mainstream media is bringing more awareness to the art form in general,...
