Tag: contemporary

Cutting Footloose at the 2014 Dance Awards

Dance Spirit‘s January cover girl, Sophia Lucia, on the red carpet before the Dance Awards in NYC (photo via @sophialucia5678) Chock full of utterly amazing dance talent, silly jokes and wild choreography, the 2014 Dance Awards closed out its NYC event last night at the Hammerstein Ballroom. The three-and-a-half-hour celebration really had it all—from spectacular […]

Choreographer's Collage: Aszure Barton

(Photo by Don Lee, courtesy The Banff Centre) Since breaking into the choreography big leagues in 2005—when Mikhail Baryshnikov invited her to be the first artist in residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in NYC—this former National Ballet of Canada and Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal dancer has been pushing dancers from around the world […]

The Dirt with Cindy Salgado

(by Allison Schultz) Cindy Salgado’s performance resumé reads like a who’s who of today’s contemporary dance world: Dee Caspary, Lauren Adams and Mia Michaels are just a few of the choreographers who have featured California-raised, Juilliard-trained Salgado in their pieces. But this contemporary queen, who’s currently a member of Crystal Pite’s acclaimed company Kidd Pivot, […]

Get Serious

Josie Moseley’s “When I Close My Eyes” (by Blaine Covert) As the curtain rises on Josie Moseley’s “When I Close My Eyes,” a dancer in black moves with desperation, her gestures and face conveying that she has just experienced horrible loss. Choreographed on students at The Portland Ballet, the contemporary piece depicts the stories of […]

Video Contest-A-Palooza

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 […]

10 Things We Learned From "All the Right Moves" Episode 1

Last night marked the premiere episode of “All the Right Moves” on Oxygen. Surely you know this by now since we basically haven’t shut up about it since May. The first episode brought exactly what we expected: two contemporary routines, a whole lotta “who’s the boss of this company?” drama, and plenty of shirtless Kyle […]