Tag: photo shoot

Black and White Dancewear That's Anything But #Basic

Low on dancewear inspiration? Return to the classics in bold black and elegant white. Models Jenna and Emily are students at Westchester Dance Academy in Mt. Kisco, NY. Photos by Jayme Thornton. Emily Slater in Body Wrappers/Angelo Luzio top, Sugar and Bruno shorts Jenna Meilman in So Dança leotard, Capezio Skirt Slater in Sugar and […]

Minimalist Magic: Dancewear That Lets You Focus on Your Technique

Understated classwear puts your technique front and center. Dance Spirit photographed Mikaela, Mio, and Zoe on Juilliard’s campus at the end of the 2016–17 school year. Mio Ishikawa and Mikaela Kelly in Discount Dance Suppy leotards. (Kenneth Edwards) (From Left) Mio Ishikawa is in Just For Kix leotard and So Danca skirt. Zoe Hollinshead is […]

Meet Juliet!

Happy March! Here at DS HQ, we’re more than ready to be kicking off a new month (please please please tell us that March is going to finally bring us some warmer temperatures and pretty flowers…please?) and, fittingly, a brand-new issue! Introducing…Juliet Doherty! The March issue of Dance Spirit is our annual Ballet Issue, and […]

The January Issue is Here!

The new issue! Cover shot by Erin Baiano. The funnest day in the Dance Spirit office every month is “new issue day.” Even though we’ve just wrapped up months of working on a particular issue, it’s still crazy exciting when we actually get our copies and get to hold them and gawk at them and […]

Go Behind the Scenes with Amy and Fik-Shun

Making it to the Top 20 of “So You Think You Can Dance” is really, really hard, so most will never know what it’s like to hang out with America’s Favorite Dancers. One of the perks of working at Dance Spirit is that we get to do just that every year! That’s because, the morning […]

Behind the Scenes with Team Ballet

When Eliana and Chehon showed up for their Dance Spirit photo shoot, we were a little worried they’d be utterly exhausted. After all, they’d just finished taping 14 weeks of “So You Think You Can Dance” and been crowned the show’s Season 9 winners the night before. After staying up late celebrating, they woke up […]