Few things are as nerve-racking as partnering class, especially when you’re a newbie. No matter the genre, the stakes feel high—and the potential for awkwardness feels unlimited. How do you avoid smacking your partner in the face? How do you communicate a problem without causing a major conflict? Dance Spirit spoke with some partnering pros […]
We at Dance Spirit are *huge* fans of awards shows—particularly, awards shows that highlight dance. So naturally, we’re extra-huge fans of the World Choreography Awards, which have recognized and celebrated all the fabulous choreography happening in movies, TV shows, commercials, and on stages for a full decade. For the WCA 10th anniversary, the winners of […]
ICYMI, Justin Bieber’s newest album Changes has been dominating the charts for a bit now. As expected, wonderfully vibey dance goodness has followed, in the form of TikTok trends, class combos, and viral dance videos. Now, the Biebs has further upped the dance ante, dropping the first two installments of his Changes visual album. And […]
It’s been over three years since the first High Strung was released, and fans of the dancetastic movie have been itching for more ever since. Thankfully, the film’s sequel, High Strung: Free Dance, is set to premiere tomorrow, October 11. The new story follows Barlow, a young ballet dancer longing to break into the Broadway […]
Ever since High Strung: Free Dance—the sequel to the original, fabulously dancy movie—was announced last summer, we’ve been eager for peeks at the behind-the-scenes action. And yesterday, the High Strung team dropped the juiciest preview footage since our own Facebook Live events on set. Featuring star Juliet Doherty, fantastic supporting cast members like Phillip Chbeeb […]
Are your moves smooth and sexy like Chloé Arnold’s tapping Syncopated Ladies, or is your dancing bubblegum sweet like the girls of Suga N Spice? Behold, the answer: Loading…
Some of my favorite pas de deux involve the meeting of two opposites. “So You Think You Can Dance,” which is all about creating unlikely partnerships, thrives on this kind of thing: ballerina meets b-boy, or tapper meets contemporary queen. I love, love, love watching dancers who are experts in totally different styles play off […]
That time dancers from I.aM.mE Crew, Quest Crew, Poreotics, Finger Circus, 8 Flavahz, Dragon House and Street Kingdom all collaborated on the same project… No, folks, this isn’t dream. I.aM.mE’s Phillip Chbeeb and Di Moon Zhang and Quest Crew’s Hokuto Konishi have teamed up to form a new company, AXYZM—and they enlisted the help of hip-hop’s […]