Dance Informa Magazine
Interviews
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5.3KIntroducing Marlena Wolfe
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger – Marlena Wolfe is making it big and helping others make it too. By Leigh Schanfein. Marlena Wolfe...
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10.3KThe Youth America Grand Prix
By Emily Yewell Volin. The Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) is a prestigious annual ballet competition dedicated to student dancers ages 9-19,...
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6.0KStephanie Williams joins American Ballet Theatre
By Rebecca Martin. Dancer Stephanie Williams has gone from strength to strength since leaving The Australian Ballet in 2011 and joining Het...
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7.3KTenacious Theara Ward
From “Baby Ballerina” with Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Broadway and musical theatre star, to master teacher and choreographer, Theara Ward is...
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4.6KEmerging into Greatness: Sarah Konner & Austin Selden’s NYC debut
By Tara Sheena Sarah Konner and Austin Selden are a collaborative force in the vast world of emerging choreographers in NYC. Part...
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12.8KFive American Choreographers to Watch
By Stephanie Wolf. Divided by so much distance, it’s easy for American dance communities to disconnect with one another and forget that...
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3.7KDandelion Dancetheater Embraces Difference
By Leigh Schanfein. San Francisco-based Dandelion Dancetheater is a dance company that is doing something different. Founded in 1996 by Eric Kupers...
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4.7KHeidi Duckler: Finding Inspiration in Unlikely Spaces
By Tara Sheena A dance performance seems like a simple equation: one part choreography, two parts proscenium stage, and three parts talented...
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10.3K1Making the Leap: Dancer to Choreographer
By Laura Di Orio When a dancer steps down from the stage and “hangs up his or her shoes”, it doesn’t always...
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16.0K1Morphoses’ Martha Vineyard’s Residency
Insights from Company Dancer Brittany Fridenstine By Stephanie Wolf Manhattan based dance troupe Morphoses challenges the norms of a ballet company setting....
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3.9KCommon Grounds: How DirtyFeet helped blur borders
By Leigh Schanfein Last year at this time, I was offered a pretty sweet deal: go to Sydney Australia, where housing and...
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11.7KChloe Arnold – Tapping into her Magic
By Winston Morrison Renowned tap fanatic Chloe Arnold is a co-director of the LA Tap Festival and DC Tap Festival. She makes...
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4.1KReQuest – Queens of Hip Hop
By Kristy Johnson. They may not have taken out the title as America’s Best Dance Crew in Season Six, however this all-female...
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9.4KIn With the New: A Conversation with Morphoses’ Brandon Cournay
By Tara Sheena Last spring, Brandon Cournay had to answer that one, eternal question that plagues freelance dancers on an all-too-often basis:...
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4.7KPaul Lightfoot Enlightens
By Rain Francis. Born in Kingsley, England, Paul Lightfoot trained at the Royal Ballet School before joining Nederlands Dans Theater in 1985....
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16.2K2Kenny Ortega’s Dirty Dancing Remake
By Deborah Searle. Dancers and film lovers alike are buzzing about the announcement of a Dirty Dancing remake. The 1987 musical romance...
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12.2KMelanie’s Moment to Shine
By Deborah Searle. And the winner of So You Think You Can Dance season 8 is…Melanie Moore! Hear what Melanie had to...
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8.5KCreative Caspary
By Deborah Searle. Dee Caspary is a creative soul with a passion for choreography and music. Recently known for his work on...
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6.3KZap Code Zeitlin
LA based dance/fitness advocate Michelle Zeitlin is ready to reach out to the world with her unique brand of passion and pragmatism....
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4.2KI am Korhan, This Is My Dance
By Deborah Searle. Born in Bursa, Turkey, dancer Korhan Basaran now calls New York home – a city that inspires him to...
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6.2K2Choreographers Spotlight- Gina Patterson
As choreographer Gina Patterson puts it, her dance career “started with a bang!” And she seems in no rush to calm it...
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8.0KWhat Lil’ C Sees
We all know Christopher “Lil‘ C” Toler as a verbose judge and hip hop specialist on So You Think You Can Dance....
