Las Vegas’ latest attraction has audiences on their feet—to bust a move. The immersive Discoshow, directed by Steven Hoggett and with choreography by Yasmine Lee, celebrates disco’s revolutionary beginnings in 1970s New York City nightlife. The 70-minute Spiegelworld production on the Las Vegas Strip, in collaboration with Caesars Entertainment, features a time-specific soundtrack and an ever-evolving […]
Calling all Little Monsters! Fresh off her Oscar win for Best Original Song, Lady Gaga will head back to the Park Theater in Las Vegas this May. She’ll perform her Enigma show, as well as her stripped-down Jazz & Piano show. Dancer Montana Efaw has worked with Gaga for a whole decade, and now joins […]
What with the insanely high overall level of talent and technique on a televised dance competition like “World of Dance,” it’s often easy to forget that these dancers, too, have areas to improve upon and goals still left to reach. TV dance stars: They’re just like US! On last night’s episode of “World of Dance,” […]
Former comp kid (and 2013 DS Cover Model Search winner!) Hayden Hopkins grew up training in Seattle, WA, cultivating her huge social media presence along the way—she has more than 200,000 followers on Instagram alone. The 20-year-old recently landed her dream job: dancing in Cirque du Soleil’s Las Vegas show Mystère. DS had her keep […]
This Nationals season, Dance Spirit followed four talented dancers from The Dance Awards, NYCDA, Showstopper, and Starpower for an inside look at everything that goes into the biggest competitions of the year. Next up: JT Church from Club Dance in Mesa, AZ, who competed at The Dance Awards in Las Vegas for the first time […]
Are you currently crying into your last poolside soda? Taking wistful selfies of your rapidly fading tan? Feeling generally blue because summer is—*sob*—coming to a close? Let the Suga N Spice crew make it all better. This Fourth of July, 10 members of the too-cute-for-words group—Amanda Kinert, Sarah Kinert, Trinity Inay, Amy Magsam, Taylor Knight, […]
In the commercial world, few gigs compare to dancing for pop icon Britney Spears. And Spears’ latest project is a dancer’s dream: a long-term show at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Choreographed by Ashley Evans and Antony Ginandjar of The Squared Division, “Britney: Piece of Me” is a full-length revue of […]
I have to say I’ve been very proud of “So You Think You Can Dance” so far this season. There haven’t been too many painfully bad auditions, plus the dancers with sob stories haven’t completely outnumbered the ones without. Bravo! On the other hand, Nigel seems to be getting more and more inappropriate. (No he […]