Tag: ballroom

Who’s that mysterious beauty behind the mask? It’s you, dressed to impress in this season’s most dramatic ballroom costumes.

Floorcraft: It sounds like some kind of dancer magic, but it’s actually a technical term describing the essential ability to avoid collisions with other couples on the ballroom dance floor. Because success in ballroom doesn’t just come down to masterful technique, great choreography, stellar musicality, chemistry between partners and magnetic performance quality—it also requires gracefully […]

With a growing emphasis on specialized training, many colleges are offering concentrated degrees within the overall dance major, focused on preparing dancers for very specific aspects of the industry—from ballet to ballroom to commercial. DS rounded up some of the hottest programs with hyper-focused degree tracks. For Broadway Hopefuls Oklahoma City University Oklahoma City, OK […]

Wowee, “Dancing with the Stars” can really give you some highs and lows, ya know? Fortunately I’m #TeamBallas forever, and he and celeb partner Paige VanZant have been consistently solid. Their jive was fabulous and VanZant’s competent technique shows her interest in learning, week after week. Our January 2015 cover star Witney Carson blew past […]

Ballroom icon Anna Trebunskaya, who returned to “Dancing with the Stars” this past fall after a five-season hiatus, is both a fierce technician and a firecracker onstage, lighting up performances with her sultry passion. After moving to the U.S. at the age of 17 to pursue a professional ballroom career, the Russian-born Trebunskaya began racking […]

Is anything more emotionally exhausting than the Most Memorable Year episode on “Dancing with the Stars”? It’s like being asked to run a marathon while someone reminds you of every breakup and totally unfair grade on a group assignment that you’ve ever had. The problem with this episode is also its saving grace. It’s not […]

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When 20-year-old Austin Joson and 19-year-old Nino Dzneladze dance, they’re completely, intensely connected. Whether they’re doing a sharp, energetic jive or a smooth, sensual rumba, their bodies move as one. Their technique is impeccable. Their chemistry is electric. And over the past year and a half, ballroom judges all over the world have taken notice. […]