Sooooo we want to be best friends with Serena Williams. For many, many reasons. I mean, yes, it would be amazing to have a world-champion tennis player in our posse. We’d obviously love to hear her workout tips, because that body is a work of ART. But mostly she just seems like a lot of […]
It’s Super Bowl Sunday! Are you rooting for the New England Patriots or the Seattle Sea Hawks? I’m still hoping that the Pittsburgh Steelers make a miraculous comeback, but I’m pretty sure that’s not how football works… Before I embarrass myself with anymore football talk (Aren’t the Sea Hawks’ costumes pretty?! Can’t wait until Katy […]
Jasmine Perry with Alec and Victor of “Strictly Ballet” Photo Will Davidson/Teen Vogue You already know just how much we love it when the fashion world enters ours (excluding the recent Free People, um, snafu). So it’s no surprise that we’re ecstatic about Teen Vogue’s newest venture: a web series (premiering today!) following six students […]
It’s a fact: We at Dance Spirit cannot get enough of dancing animal videos. (Examples A and B—and take a peek inside your April issue for our cutest round-up ever,”Puppy Love,” with dancers and their dancing pooches.) So imagine our glee when we discovered a new video, this time with the exotic peacock spider bustin’ […]
Here’s yet another reason to be jealous of New York City Ballet’s talented dancers: These days, it seems like they get to play dress-up in designer duds allllll the time! Exhibit A: Following in the glamorous footsteps of Rodarte, J. Mendel and Valentino Garavani, fashion star Joseph Altuzarra has designed costumes that will be unveiled […]
American Ballet Theatre and Bolshoi Ballet principal David Hallberg has been a pretty major ballet star for a pretty long time now. But he’s also becoming a bona fide star of the fashion world. Not that that’s a surprise, really: Hallberg is a beautiful guy, in addition to being a beautiful dancer, and seems to […]
I am not the style maven at Dance Spirit. When it comes to dressing cute and knowing when to wear a belt “to cinch things,” I leave that to fashion editor Michael Anne. If I’m curious about a fashion designer or what some celebrity wore to an awards show, associate editor Margaret is my go-to girl. […]
Sometimes Facebook is a magical place. Just this morning, I found a real gem in my newsfeed: an image from a November 2001 Vogue profile of two up-and-coming New York City Ballet dancers, Ashley Bouder and Carla Körbes. Vogue did a good job talent-scouting, because today, of course, Bouder’s a principal at NYCB and Körbes […]