Over the past few years, social media platforms have become launching pads for a new generation of choreographers. Many of these young artists grew up in front of the camera lens, dancing in the class videos of pioneers like Matt Steffanina and Tricia Miranda. Now, these familiar faces are flexing their choreographic muscles for huge […]
What do you get when you cross a 1920s jazz baby with an absurdly flexible alien life-form? Ten-year-old Gracyn French, who’s taken the comp world by storm over the past two years. After she became KAR Miss Petite Dance America 2017, the 2018 Nationals season saw Gracyn break the Top 20 at Radix and the […]
Visit Autumn Miller’s Instagram feed and you’ll find a video of the 18-year-old practicing fouettés. “You’ll never be able to do it until you try,” the caption reads. At first it looks ordinary enough. (How many fouetté videos are there online?). But once you watch it, you’ll understand why Autumn has more than a million […]
Contemporary dancer Chantel Aguirre’s powerful presence and regal, fluid movement can enchant audiences in seconds—and have helped make her a commercial-world icon. The Santa Cruz, CA, native started dancing at age 2 at her mother’s studio, Ballet Repertoire Theatre. When she was a freshman in high school, she enrolled at the San Francisco Ballet School […]
If you think you know this classic holiday bop, prepare to think again. Mariah Carey ‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is many wonderful things. It’s a terrific up-tempo tune for bellowing in the car with your dance friends on the way to Nutcracker rehearsal. It’s the perfect accompaniment to many a hilarious […]
What with the insanely high overall level of talent and technique on a televised dance competition like “World of Dance,” it’s often easy to forget that these dancers, too, have areas to improve upon and goals still left to reach. TV dance stars: They’re just like US! On last night’s episode of “World of Dance,” […]
There’s a reason (or a million reasons) so many young dancers set their sights on the city that never sleeps: NYC is an artists’ haven, with opportunities to create and grow everywhere you look. But pursuing a dance career in NYC can also be downright expensive, and a steady company paycheck is basically a unicorn. […]
Just when you think the dance routines can’t get any better on “World of Dance,” someone lights up the stage and sets the bar a little higher. This week was no exception. There were moves upon moves, with dancers performing tricks we didn’t even think were humanly possible. Leave it to “World of Dance” contestants […]