Tag: the washington post

"Left Shark" Is BACK!

It was almost exactly three years ago that “left shark”—a dancer in a giant foam shark costume who was FEELING HIMSELF during Katy Perry’s Super Bowl halftime performance—grooved his way into our cold, hard hearts. The world fell in love with the fish gone rogue. And that love? It’s still burning. Just in time for […]

Ballerinas Talk About the Agony of De Feet

The Washington Post just ran a rather epic story about ballerinas’ intense, inherently abusive relationships with their feet. And while a lot of it is stuff that serious dancers already know—getting up on pointe requires dancers to be as strong as football players, every dancer has her own pointe shoe break-in method, etc—the piece also […]