American Ballet Theatre boasts nearly 90 dancers. But when the company is mounting an elaborate story ballet at NYC’s cavernous Metropolitan Opera House, it actually needs more bodies to complete the picture onstage. Enter supernumeraries, aka “supers.” These supplementary performers are hired for non-dancing background roles (think “third courtier from the left” or “tall market […]
High school senior Savannah Gaillard has been attending the New York University Future Dancers and Dancemakers workshop at Tisch School of the Arts for the past three years. The uber-focused and dedicated teen chronicled the final three weekends of the 2016 program: Every Saturday, from February through April, she and her mom, Nancy, took the […]
Pint-size triple threat Evie Dolan has played bass-guitarist Katie in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock—The Musical since the show opened on the Great White Way this past December. The 11-year-old NYC native has studied everything from ballet to lyrical to jazz at the Joffrey Ballet School and, more recently, at Downtown Dance Factory. She’s […]
Name the dance job, Taylor Gordon’s probably had it: The 27-year-old’s resumé includes performances with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, off-Broadway productions and stints with concert groups like Exit12 Dance Company. But only this year did the New Yorker fulfill her longtime dream of dancing abroad, earning a spot as a […]