Sonya Tayeh led a master class for Pace students in May. (photo courtesy Pace) Calling all high schoolers: Pace University’s Commercial Dance BFA program will host a weekend intensive for prospective students on its campus October 17–19. (And yes, you read that correctly: You can get a degree in commercial dance.) Unlike a typical college […]
Jakob Karr in Flashdance: The Musical (DRGPhotography) Jakob Karr, with his amazing extensions, and Kamille Upshaw, with her captivating stage presence, made names for themselves by snatching up award after award on the competition circuit. The two were hired for their first professional dance jobs in 2007—performing together during the halftime show of an alpaca […]
It’s official—our April issue is in subscribers’ hands! (Non-subscribers, don’t fret, it will be on sale Tuesday, March 19.) In this issue, we asked dancers, “What’s the worst advice you’ve ever received?” And they came up with some doozies—from being told to change up their look to being told that being mean to younger dancers […]
The DS office has been an even more gleeful place than usual this week. Why, you ask? Because yesterday we heard Tina Fey has plans to adapt Mean Girls into a Broadway musical. A BROADWAY MUSICAL!!! OK. Take a moment. Stop hyperventilating. Why is this the most awesome news ever? Because here is an inarguable […]
What happens when songster Lin-Manuel Miranda, choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler and a bunch of peppy cheerleaders get together? That’d be Bring It On: The Musical, a high-flying production based on the movie everyone secretly (or, in my case, not so secretly) loves. We’ve all been drooling over this show since we first heard about it a […]
No dancer is perfect. Maybe you’re more flexible on your right side than on your left, or perhaps you just can’t seem to nail all four sounds in your double pullbacks. Don’t despair—even the pros have weaknesses and off days. The key is finding new tactics to help you continue to improve. We got 16 […]