They say opposites attract—and that’s certainly the case for best friends Sloan-Taylor Rabinor and Montana Efaw. Rabinor, a brunette contemporary dancer from Arizona, and Efaw, a blonde hip-hopper from Oregon, first met at The PULSE on Tour almost a decade ago, and in 2007 they became the first ever Elite Protégés to travel with the […]
You know that myth that dancers who go to college are wasting precious performance time? Karen Chuang proves otherwise. The Northern California native trained with Sonya Tayeh in San Francisco before heading to University of California, Los Angeles, in 2008—the same year she traveled with The PULSE on Tour as an assistant and demonstrator. Before […]
Dance Spirit’s May/June 2014 issue. Shot by Joe Toreno. The day I found out Jeremy Hudson and Mark Kanemura were dating, I sprinted across the office and practically shouted to the rest of the Dance Spirit staff, “We have to put them on the cover!” You know Mark from Season 4 of “So You Think […]
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When I was 11, the routine I did at my year-end dance recital was a lyrical-ballet hybrid thing to that weird and totally unknown song “Every Heart Needs a Home.” It was awful. These days, 11 year olds are way more talented. They’re downright fierce. Take, for example, 11-year-old Sean Lew. You’ve probably already heard […]
Oh, the MTV Video Music Awards. So they happened last night—shout-out to Brooklyn!—and they were…you know. Here’s the thing: The VMAs have always been awesome and edgy and it’s the awards show where the celebrities can really go crazy. There was that time in the late ’90s when Gwen Stefani dyed her hair sky blue […]
Choreographer Richy Jackson has worked on Lady Gaga’s most iconic videos—“Bad Romance” and “Telephone,” to name just two. He officially made his debut as lead choreographer for the Haus of Gaga with her “Marry the Night” video in 2011. In the past year, he’s come out from behind the scenes to be a judge on […]