Hello all you lovely, creative people! Are you possibly the world’s next choreographic genius? Do you want $15,000 to produce your very own show? Of course you are—we’ve seen how much talent y’all have!—and of course you do. Which makes us especially happy to announce that the 2016 Capezio A.C.E. Awards competition is now accepting […]
Chaz Buzan in Talia Favia’s The Difference Between Action and Words (photo by Kyle Froman) It felt pretty glamorous to be a DS editor this weekend. We all dressed to the nines for the 2014 Capezio A.C.E. (Award for Choreographic Excellence) Awards—one of the highlights of the Dance Teacher Summit, an impressive annual extravaganza presented […]
Lindsay Nelko (photo by Kristen Sawatzky) At last year’s Capezio A.C.E. (Award for Choreographic Excellence) Awards in NYC, Lindsay Nelko tied for third place, winning $3,000 to produce her own show in conjunction with Capezio and Break the Floor Productions. Next week, we’ll see the fruits of that partnership: Nelko will present the world premiere […]
Winner Melinda Sullivan (third from left) at the 2012 Capezio A.C.E. Awards (photo by Matthew Murphy) We’ve been getting super pumped up about this year’s Capezio A.C.E. (Award for Choreographic Excellence) Awards for the past several months: We’ve been reminiscing about past winners—like Travis Wall, Melinda Sullivan, and Peter Chu—and encouraging you to put your […]
I love the Throwback Thursday (hashtag it: #tbt) trend on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram—especially when my favorite dancers tag themselves in hilarious little kid recital photos. Another thing I love? Getting lost in the internet, re-watching all of my favorite dance performances from “So You Think You Can Dance,” the Dance Spirit Cover Model Search […]
The Capezio A.C.E. (Award for Choreographic Excellence) Awards were held last night at the Dance Teacher Summit—and what a show this year’s 15 finalists put on. In fact, the entries were so collectively strong that the judges ended up choosing four, rather than the usual three, winners. Congrats to grand prize winner Erica Sobol for […]
All my dance nerds: Get thee to dancemedia.com right now, because there are two pretty great video contests currently underway! First up: We’re in the second month of the Joffrey Ballet School scholarship competition. You could win a full tuition scholarship to one of the JBS’s prestigious summer programs—just enter a clip of your best […]
This year’s Capezio A.C.E. Awards—a highlight of the annual Dance Teacher Summit in NYC—were jam-packed with rising choreographic talent. The 23 finalists’ pieces included dramatic contemporary works, a stellar Latin number and even a joyful dance set to a Celine Dion medley. But Peter Chu’s This Thought stood out for its exceptional partnering and emotionally […]