I’m a sucker for a great time-lapse video. Whether it’s showing the course of the sun from rise to set, or it’s a street view of bustling NYC, I’m into it. It’s probably because I’m impatient. I like things to move fast, and a time lapse essentially takes things into a watchable fast-forward mode. So […]
Last year, flash mob marriage proposals were all the rage. Honestly, if you were proposed to last year and didn’t get a flash mob, you should feel a little left out—or like you chose the wrong guy. I kid, I kid. But there were some pretty great ones. We even included the get-all-your-friends-to-dance-in-unison-before-popping-the-question trend in […]
Lately, I’ve been feeling a little nostalgic for the London Olympics. The dog days of summer just aren’t much fun without headline-making athletic feats to look forward to at the end of the day. If you were also a fan of the “Fab Five” gymnastics wonder girls, you’re about to be just as giddy I […]
It feels like it was just yesterday we were gushing about Janelle Monáe’s amazingly quirky single, “Q.U.E.E.N.” (I mean, it was only two months ago—dang, girl!) But now, here we are yet again obsessed with another one of her just-released videos, “Dance Apocalyptic.” In a departure from her signature look, Monáe literally lets down her […]
Usually on the 4th of July, we like to post a beautiful video of our favorite America-themed ballet, Stars and Stripes. I, of course, would have chosen that time it was featured in best-dance-movie-ever Center Stage. (“Those pirouettes were amazing. Amazing and tiring, huh?” Oh Jodie, so naive.) Anyway…while searching for videos, I remembered a […]
L.A.-based Haylee Roderick has been strutting her stuff on the commercial scene, dancing everywhere from “Glee” to the Academy Awards, for a while. But despite having an agent and killer talent, she was missing one more essential item: “Producers, directors and my agent were constantly asking to see my dance reel,” Haylee says. “I kept […]
Warning: This video may hypnotize you. I’ll be honest, from the moment I started watching this video of Wiener Staatsballett first soloist Liudmila Konovalova, I was hooked. Like, I couldn’t tear my eyes from the screen. Those feet! Those legs! That port de bras! Oh. My. Gosh. What is it about incredibly arch-y feet and strong, […]
See that elephant? It’s made of dancers. Insane. If you have a Facebook account (of course you do—you “like” Dance Spirit, right?!), you’ve probably seen the unbelievable video of the mysterious shadow dancers. Almost all my FB friends have shared it to their pages with the same sort of caption: “OMG, you have to watch […]