Well, there goes another hour spent watching the Hatala sisters on TikTok. It’s easy to get lost in the feeds of Taylor and Reese Hatala, thanks to their mix of serious dance talent, endearing silliness, and knack for eye-catching short-form choreography. Seventeen-year-old Taylor and 14-year-old Reese are popping, wiggling, and throwing major face as skillfully […]
If you’re on #compkid TikTok, odds are you’ve seen a post by Nick Silverio (@nicksilverioo). Silverio was a competitive dancer with Elite Academy of Dance in Shrewsbury, MA, before studying business at the University of Pennsylvania and continuing to dance throughout college. Now he works as a professional dancer, choreographer, and competition judge in NYC, […]
The latest popular TikTok dance challenge isn’t the “Renegade,” or set to “Savage,” by Megan Thee Stallion—it’s testing how much your friends and family really know about what you do in the studio all day. TikTok user @kayausvlogs recorded herself asking her partner to guess what common ballet terms look like based on the way […]
Onstage and off, Pressley Hosbach is a bundle of personality, positivity, and passion. Technique, too, as shown by the challenging solos she nailed on “Dance Moms” Season 8. Pressley also performed on Justin Bieber’s Purpose World Tour at Madison Square Garden in 2016, and danced on the Brooklyn Nets Kids team for four seasons. Catch […]
Ever brought a friend to a ballet performance and spent all of intermission explaining what happened during act one? Yeah—ballet stories can be, uh, complicated. And that’s why we’re grateful for ballet student Katelyn Powers’ #balletplots TikTok posts. In a series of videos that’s been taking over ballet TikTok, Katelyn explains the (sometimes very weird) […]
It’s paradoxical but true: On TikTok, a platform driven largely by dance, people with little to no dance background are becoming megastars—and highly-trained dancers can seem like fish out of water. The most popular dances on the platform aren’t usually the most technically challenging. And often, serious dancers have a hard time figuring out what […]
We’re on week who-knows-anymore of quarantine, and by now, you’ve probably tried most of the classic TikTok dance challenges. If you’re looking for new material, never fear: Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande are here to save the day (because of course they are). Last week, Lady Gaga released her latest hit, “Rain On Me,” featuring […]
TikTok is famous for turning young talents into household names. The app is also full of black American culture: the music, the movements, the swag. In fact, the creators of two of the most popular dances on the app, “Renegade” and “Savage,” are black. Meet four talented black dancers who are using the platform to […]