In the new film Antarctica: The First Dance, Madeleine Graham literally dances at the edge of the world. And while the footage of the Royal New Zealand Ballet dancer twirling and arabesque-ing her way across giant ice sheets is stunning, Graham braved the southernmost continent’s frigid cold for a more important cause: to raise awareness […]
Ever since High Strung: Free Dance—the sequel to the original, fabulously dancy movie—was announced last summer, we’ve been eager for peeks at the behind-the-scenes action. And yesterday, the High Strung team dropped the juiciest preview footage since our own Facebook Live events on set. Featuring star Juliet Doherty, fantastic supporting cast members like Phillip Chbeeb […]
It’s been a major week for dance movie sequels. First we got wind of the upcoming YouTube series inspired by Step Up—and now comes the news that there’s going to be a second High Strung movie, with a cast just as stellar as the original film’s. High Strung: Free Dance will follow a talented contemporary […]
We’ve been endlessly curious about budding ballerina Juliet Doherty’s movie project, On Pointe, since we first got wind of it back in March. At that point, the film’s producers were hoping to raise the funds they needed to complete the project via Kickstarter. Well, they ended up not just meeting but exceeding their fundraising goal […]
As you know, French artist JR collaborated with New York City Ballet on 2014’s Les Bosquets, a dance that combined ballet and jookin’. It was inspired by a housing project in Montfermeil on the outskirts of Paris—the epicenter of social and political protest in 2005. I love JR’s work. I’m totally obsessed with his Instagram […]
It’s not hard to think of the dozens (upon dozens) of fashion and dance collaborations over the past few years. But what’s one thing we never saw coming? The marriage of dance, film and…perfume. Of course, it’s no surprise that super-cool Kenzo designers Humberto Leon and Carol Lim dreamed up this video to launch Kenzo’s […]
Hey dance family. How are you doing? The world has seemed like an especially tough and scary place over the past few weeks, and it’s okay to feel rattled. Fortunately, we’re lucky enough to have dance—it sees us through good times and bad. So, for your #FridayFeels, please enjoy this beautiful video of Kent Boyd […]
Have you ever played exquisite corpse? It’s a drawing and writing game where each participant adds a sentence and image to a story, based only off of what was drawn or written immediately before. The end result is usually as wacky as it is interesting. Now stretch your mind a little bit, and imagine the […]