Dance Informa Magazine
Feature Articles
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5.4KWhat to do when you just can’t get enough dance!
Your studio is a great place to learn from your teachers and to work with other dancers, but what do you do...
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5.2KSue Samuels receives Dance Teacher Award at NYC Summit
Sue Samuels, artistic director of Jazz Roots Dance Company and longtime teacher in the New York City dance community, will receive the...
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2.9KBoston dance supports Girls Chronically Rock: Continued connections
If any average person were to imagine a dancer, the “diva” cliché may come to mind – self-centered, self-interested and self-aggrandizing. Yet,...
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5.5K14 Reasons We Love…Ballet
Ballet is hard, ballet is demanding, and sometimes young students can feel like ballet is a bore. But, as teachers we know...
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5.9K‘World of Dance’ recap: Round 1 of The Duels
After much anticipation, The Duels of World of Dance have finally commenced. The highest scoring acts from the Qualifiers had a chance to...
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6.2K‘World of Dance’ recap: The Qualifiers come to an end
After an intense first round filled with great talent from all over the world, the last round of World of Dance‘s Qualifiers Round...
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2.8KThe arts and the administration: An update and how to get involved
In February of 2017, Dance Informa published an article on the relationship of the government and the arts – and what we...
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3.7KSheer Elite International awards first annual National Vickie Sheer Award
At Sheer Elite International’s 2018 National Competition and Convention this past July in Las Vegas, the first annual National Vickie Sheer Award...
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4.0KBoston’s Urbanity Dance expands it spaces
Space to dance in, freely and fully – finding it, and holding on to it, is a never-ending dance-world challenge. Sometimes (seeming)...
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3.4KArt transcending the moment: Tabula Rasa Dance Theater premieres at Gibney
Every so often, an artist emerges who can speak to the present moment, yet also transcend it. Such artists create work that...
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3.4KAlice Sheppard’s Kinetic Light: Improving accessibility for artists and patrons
“I believe we need work made by disabled artists for the disability community writ large. We need art that explicitly acknowledges the...
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3.7KFifth Annual So Flo Tap Fest: Creating one big tap family
It’s America’s historic artform. It is one that comes from various cultural backgrounds and that blends rhythms and beats to ultimately make...
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3.7KIntroducing Cydney Byron
Back in February, Cydney Byron, co-owner of Bella Rosa Dance Academy in Beavercreek, Ohio, was named the winner of BellaMoxi Dance Convention’s...
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3.1K‘World of Dance’ recap: Lucky Round 7 for The Qualifiers
The biggest dance competition in the world, World of Dance, continued to amaze as more dancers took the stage. The fight to win...
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3.1K‘World of Dance’ recap: Round 6 of the Qualifiers
The Qualifiers Round continued as more hopeful dancers hit the World of Dance stage to prove that they deserved to compete against...
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8.2KA guide to one of the summer’s most epic dance events: DancerPalooza
Dancers, are you officially packing your bags for DancerPalooza? In just a few weeks, this epic, one-of-kind dance festival returns to California,...
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9.2KBack to roots: Shoshona Currier takes over the helm at Bates Dance Festival
Many of us have lives that take unexpected twists and turns, in different locations and endeavors. Sometimes, we find ourselves back to...
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3.3KBoston Dance Alliance honoree Jeanne Traxler inspires the young
Talking with Jeanne Traxler was like having a comfortable conversation with a longtime friend, only we’d never met and, instead of chatting...
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6.2KAlicia Graf Mack takes to a new stage at Juilliard
If you haven’t heard of her by now, it’s time to come out from under that rock and recognize the incredible force...
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4.6KTracie Stanfield’s SynthesisDANCE offers Apprentice Experience
Tracie Stanfield, artistic director of New York City-based company SynthesisDANCE and faculty member of Broadway Dance Center, has produced summer intensives for...
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4.7K‘Ballet Etiquette’: A companion for your summer program
You’re set to embark on a summer program, and you’ve packed your dance shoes, leotards and tights, accessories and excitement. But did...
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7.7KYonder Dance Company takes ‘IRL’ to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Born from professors and dancers at The University of Alabama (UA), Yonder Dance Company is a contemporary dance company from Tuscaloosa, Alabama,...
