For decades, the worlds of ballet and commercial dance were considered separate and distinct, with little overlap between the two. This conventional wisdom has been challenged by the success of artists like Tiler Peck, who participated in competitions as a jazz dancer before joining New York City Ballet and becoming one of its stars. Ballet […]
Updated 1/20/22 New York City Ballet star Tiler Peck is unstoppable, whether she’s performing, choreographing or teaching class. Now you can have a chance to learn from Peck directly, and then join her for an exclusive conversation. We are thrilled to present Dance Media Live! with Tiler Peck, a virtual master class series streamed live […]
It’s no surprise that auditions have gone virtual. Missed are the days of crowded hallways lined with dancers vying for room to warm up, anticipation and adrenaline in the air (along with those final spritzes of hair spray). Missed are the days of paper numbers filling a room to capacity—at least for now. But Tiler […]
There are do-it-all dancers, and then there’s Tiler Peck. The New York City Ballet principal is also known for designing dancewear with Body Wrappers, curating (and dancing in) the BalletNOW series at The Music Center in Los Angeles, and teaching daily Instagram LIVE classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. She can now add another accomplishment to […]
On March 15, New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck announced to her 172,000-plus Instagram followers that she’d be teaching a live class from her family’s home in Bakersfield, California, where she’s currently waiting out COVID-19. Little did she know that she’d receive such a viral response. Since then, Peck has offered daily Instagram LIVE […]
One of the hardest parts of hunkering down to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is giving up our daily routines. And for dancers, that means class. Last week we shared a number of online teaching platforms (including Miami City Ballet principal soloist Lauren Fadely’s new virtual ballet school), but now there are even more options. […]
“New York City Ballet star appears in a Keanu Reeves action movie” is not a sentence we ever thought we’d write. But moviegoers seeing John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum will be treated to two scenes featuring soloist Unity Phelan dancing choreography by colleague Tiler Peck. The guns-blazing popcorn flick cast Phelan as a ballerina […]
Remember Little Dancer, the musical starring Tiler Peck and inspired by Edgar Degas’ sculpture of the same name? After a 2014 run at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the creative team did some major reworking of the material, and now the show is making its West Coast premiere. The revamped production opens at Seattle’s […]