If you’re a competition dancer, you may know the feeling of standing onstage waiting for your turn to dance, with one big question in mind: “What am I going to do?” In improv challenges (also called improv “competitions” or “battles”), dancers perform on the spot for a song or set of counts and receive a […]
What happens when you win Best Dancer at The Dance Awards’ Nationals in every age division? You make history. What about when two dancers do it, nearly in all the same years? Double history. That’s what happened for 18-year-old competition stars Ian Stegeman and Cameron Voorhees. Over the past decade, each dancer has taken first […]
Ava Wagner’s dance career seems almost predestined. “My grandma was stretching my feet the minute I was born,” she says. Her family’s connection to dance spans generations: her great-grandmother, Shirley Larkin, founded Larkin Dance Studio in Minnesota, where Wagner trained until she was 18; her grandmother, Michele Larkin-Wagner, currently co-owns the studio. After excelling as […]
Madisyn Rose Amos is a force to be reckoned with in the competition circuit. At just 12 years old, she clearly exemplifies what it means to be a multifaceted dancer. A quick scroll through her Instagram reveals competition and convention reels spanning a variety of styles, including jazz, ballet, contemporary, and ballroom. (In fact, after […]
What happens when two sisters grow up side by side in the studio, pushing each other every step of the way? For Ellary Day Szyndlar, 13, and Sylvie Win Szyndlar, 10, it’s led to big wins: Both have recently been named Mini Best Dancer at The Dance Awards and earned top honors at Youth America […]
Congratulations to the October Cover Model Search Editors’ Choice video winner, Kayla Mak! Watch her solo below, and be sure to enter the Cover Model Search here. Kayla Mak, “Weeping Willow”
Not only does 14-year-old Keagan Capps have insane flexibility, but she uses it to the fullest extent (pun intended). And her ability to nail a range of emotions and musical accents draws audiences in. Keagan took home the title of National Junior Best Dancer at The Dance Awards in 2019. This past summer, she took […]
As a choreographer, Will Loftis has touched almost every part of the dance industry. He’s worked on television, from “So You Think You Can Dance” to “The World’s Best” to “The Voice,” and he served as the supervising choreographer for the “Dancing with the Stars” 2020 tour. He’s a regular on the convention circuit, teaching […]