Tag: tiktok

Meet the Competition Judge Behind the Most #Relatable Dancer TikToks

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, […]

Challenge Your Friends and Family to This TikTok Ballet Quiz

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 […]

Why You Should Know TikTok Princess Pressley Hosbach

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 […]

Send These #BalletPlots TikToks to Anyone Asking What Your Variation Means

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) […]

The Serious Dancer's Guide to TikTok

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 […]