Tag: contemporary dance

Congratulations to our June 2017 Cover Model Search Editors’ Choice video winner, Brooke Cox! Here she is performing her solo, Creep. Enter the Cover Model Search at dancemedia.com.

Peridance Contemporary Dance Company members (photo by Karli Cadel) Being the savvy dancers that you all are, you already know it’s a good idea to scope out hot, interesting choreographers, to discover who and what you really like—and what you like…less. Being informed about what’s happening in the dance world will help you choose which […]

Nederlands Dans Theater. Batsheva Dance Company. RUBBERBANDance Group. These companies top the dream-job list of many contemporary dancers, thanks to their amazingly inventive choreography and culturally specific approach to dance. They’re part of the wider world of contemporary and all its innovations—a world that extends far beyond the U.S. We rounded up boundary-pushing troupes from […]

Before you finish solidifying your summer plans, consider making a little room for a four-day feast of contemporary dance. From August 4–7, Broadway Dance Center in NYC will host a contemporary intensive for dancers 16 and up. Tracie Stanfield, the highly sought-after teacher and artistic director of Synthesis Dance Project, will head the intensive, with […]

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a clueless (but well-meaning) friend ask you to explain contemporary dance. Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a friend avoid your performances because she was afraid she wouldn’t “get” it. Good, so…everyone? As you know, your DS editors are diehard dance nerds, and we never miss out […]

Let’s talk about dream companies. It’s safe to say that for many of you, Still Motion Dance Company, Shaping Sound Dance Co. and Cedar Lake Contemporary Dance Company are at the top of your lists. They’re all fantastic—but there’s one thing they don’t offer: a second company. And you know how much we love second […]

Ever since Carrie Underwood played Maria Von Trapp in NBC’s “The Sound of Music Live!,” the country singer has had a special place in our hearts. But last night, when she revealed her new video for “Something in the Water” on Twitter, we fell even deeper in love. Why? Because it features none other than […]

Shopaholics, consider yourselves warned. What we’re about to show you may be too much for you to handle. Just last week, NOWNESS (an online platform that posts daily content about some aspect of luxury lifestyle—art, fashion, travel, food, design, etc.) posted a video short entitled Mine All Mine, with choreography by Italian Paolo Mangiola. The video […]