Imagine you’d never danced a day in your life, and then you woke up one morning and said, “Let’s do it.” Who would you call to guide you through this new, foreign world? Kyle Hanagami, obviously—which is exactly what Ashly Perez, a video personality and producer at BuzzFeed, did. Perez recruited Hanagami to turn her […]
Every ballet dancer knows the time, sweat, and occasional tears the art form demands. But many non-dancers are clueless about just how much work a ballet dancer puts into perfecting his or her dancing. So when the mainstream crowd recognizes our crazy work ethic, we’ll accept the round of applause any way it comes—even if […]
I don’t know what Buzzfeed’s connection to Center Stage is, and frankly, I don’t care. Because whatever cosmic force is driving the site’s writers to put out post after brilliant post about the Greatest Movie of Our Times is obviously a force for good. The awesomeness started back in 2013, with “26 Steps to Becoming […]
Oh my gosh, you guys. This. THIS FOR EVER AND EVER. Sorry—had a cuteness blackout for a second there. Backing up! Allison Holker and Stephen “tWitch” Boss , aka The World’s Most Perfect Married Couple, have been having a lot of fun over at BuzzFeed recently. And in Allison and tWitch land, “having a lot […]
Allow Philip “PacMan” Chbeeb (“So You Think You Can Dance,” Step Up Revolution and the upcoming Step Up: All In) to hypnotize you with his hands: Or perhaps with his fingers: OK, you can wake up now! Today, we’re taking a minute to get excited about tutting, which we think is pretty darn impressive. Recently, BuzzFeed […]
OK, Buzzfeed, we’re still a little upset with you for ragging on Center Stage. But we’ve got to hand it to you: “A Student Spent Three Months Dancing Across China to a Bruno Mars Song” is quite a treasure. Thank you for introducing us to this guy (aka Jake Gaba, aka our new favorite person): […]
Hey, Buzzfeed: We have a bit of a bone to pick with you. This is rare for us. We are usually big fans of the sweet, sweet procrastination your listicles provide. And in the past you have done very, very right by dancers. But this week, Buzzfeed, you took things a little too far. You […]
I was always weirded out by the fact that none of my non-dancer friends understood the appeal of ballet guys. “But they wear tights,” was the response I usually got to my high school locker full of danseur photos. (No, really—I did that. You would’ve been friends with me, right?) Well, yeah they wear tights. […]