Ballet de Lorraine’s Tristan Ihne has been dancing professionally for nearly two decades. But on July 26, he gave a performance unlike any he’d done before: Along with about 200 other dancers, he danced atop a golden platform filled with water next to the Seine river in an 8-minute piece by Maud Le Pladec, as part […]
Dance shone in the global spotlight like never before this past weekend as breaking made its long-anticipated debut on the Olympic stage. In a packed amphitheater-style arena at Paris’ Place de la Concorde, 32 dancers from all over the world—16 b-boys and 16 b-girls—competed head to head to see who would go down in history as the […]
In just a few days, breaking will make its much-anticipated Olympic debut at the 2024 Paris Games. 16 b-boys and 16 b-girls will compete battle-style to sold-out stadium crowds, the culmination of years of advocating, planning, and training. Dancers and dance fans around the world are eager to cheer on the breakers. But when and where can those […]
Tokyo 2020 may have just wrapped up, but we’re still not completely over the hype…and might already be excited for the next Olympic chapter. Breakdancing is hitting the Olympics stage in Paris 2024, marking the first time that dance has explicitly been part of the world’s biggest sporting event. In a way, though, dance has […]
The Olympics are always full of inspiring Cinderella stories, where athletes no one had heard of mere months ago end up blowing all expectations out of the water, and maybe even nabbing a medal in the bargain. But we’ve recently caught wind of a different kind of Cinderella story—and it’s one we really, really hope […]
There are plenty of current Olympic figure skaters who’d make beautiful dancers (first among them Adam Rippon, whose gorgeously choreographed long program won the internet, if not the gold). But today, as we wait for the women’s figure skating competition to crown its new champions, we wanted to throw it back to one of the […]
You and I both know that dancing is the best thing since chocolate chip cookies! But its always nice when dance gets the recognition it deserves from non–dance-world peeps. That’s why we did our own happy dance when we saw Shape magazine’s article on how dancing can actually make you a better athlete. The piece […]
To say we’re pumped for the Winter Olympics is a definite understatement. We love watching cold-weather sports like bobsledding (Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme!), the terrifying-but-exhilarating art of ski jumping, figure skating (perhaps the most dance-centric event) and even more obscure options like curling. But that’s not the say the Olympics aren’t lacking in […]