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Eleni Loving lunging while holding a microphone on stage. The lighting is dark and she is wearing a tank top with yellow pants

From Gibney Company to “Sleep No More,” Contemporary Dancer Eleni Loving Is Driven by Curiosity

Eleni Loving unspools movement like a magic trick. Dancing Twyla Tharp’s percussive The Fugue (1970/2024) with Gibney Company, she captures the work’s airy groundedness with precise musicality and a deadpan delivery. In Jermaine Spivey and Spenser Theberge’s Remains, she is a marionette who has cut her own strings, her gestures at once precisely calibrated and wholly in-the-moment, both […]

From Competitions to Campus: How 4 Comp Stars Made the Leap

Considering a dance degree to build on your competition experiences? DS caught up with comp-circuit stars who chose higher ed to learn the advantages of transitioning from comp kid to college kid. Ability to Pick Up New Genres “Because I’d been exposed to so many different genres—hip hop, theater, contemporary, and ballet—I was able to […]