In our Dear Katie series, Miami City Ballet soloist Kathryn Morgan answers your pressing dance questions. Have something you want to ask Katie? Email dearkatie@dancespirit.com for a chance to be featured! Dear Katie, I just moved to a new dance studio that provides great training. But there’s an awful culture of bullying there. While I’m […]
On this morning’s edition of “Good Morning America,” host Lara Spencer did what the dance community has been clamoring for since last Thursday, when her flippant comments about Prince George enjoying ballet lessons provoked widespread outrage: She apologized live on air. “The comment I made about dance was insensitive, it was stupid, and I am […]
When the news broke that Prince George, currently third in line for the British throne, would be continuing ballet classes as part of his school curriculum this year, we were as excited as anyone. (Okay, maybe more excited.) This was not, it seems, a sentiment shared by “Good Morning America” host Lara Spencer. On yesterday’s […]
In our “Dear Katie” series, former NYCB soloist Kathryn Morgan answers your pressing dance questions. Have something you want to ask Katie? Email dearkatie@dancespirit.com for a chance to be featured! Dear Katie, One of the dancers at my studio is being bullied by some of the older girls. It’s getting pretty bad, but I’m not […]
In our “Dear Katie” series, former NYCB soloist Kathryn Morgan answers your pressing dance questions. Have something you want to ask Katie? Email dearkatie@dancespirit.com for a chance to be featured! Dear Katie, I got a big part in my spring recital, but I really, really don’t like the guy who’ll be partnering me—he’s rude and […]
Harry Shum Jr., who we’ve been stalking for years—first as a nameless silhouette in an iPod commercial, then as Mike Chang on “Glee,” then as artistic director, choreographer and dancer for “The LXD”—has done it again. In a YouTube-video-gone-viral, “If you are in a shell…,” Harry is surrounded by colorful paints and dust, and he […]
I have a confession: I miss “Dance Moms.” And these last two weeks of reunion shows with the moms (where are the kids?!) just aren’t cutting it. Luckily, I have a fun video of Chloe and Maddie’s visit with Dance Spirit to carry me through. Check it out:
Contestants perform Bonnie Story’s “Tears of an Angel” on “So You Thin You Can Dance” Season 10 (photo by Adam Rose/FOX) On last season of “So You Think You Can Dance,” new choreographer to the show Bonnie Story brought a tough topic to the stage: In her piece, “Tears of An Angel,” she addressed the […]