Bunheads, clear your calendars! As many of you already know, Center Stage is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. The 2000 teen dance drama, which follows Jodie Sawyer and her friends at the fictional American Ballet Academy, has since become the quintessential ballet flick, for obvious reasons. It not only brought ballet—and lots of it—to […]
Where were you when you first watched Center Stage? Were you team Charlie or team Cooper? It’s hard to believe that the iconic ballet film just had its 20th anniversary on Tuesday, but Hollywood couldn’t have given fans a better way to celebrate. Deadline just announced that the hit movie will now be adapted into […]
There’s no better test of a true dance nerd than her ability to pick out the moment a dance double appears onscreen—and frequently, that double is a bona-fide dance star. Here are a few of our all-time favorite movie dance doubles. Isabella Boylston for Jennifer Lawrence, “Red Sparrow” OK, no, we haven’t seen the film […]
So, remember when New York City Ballet honored designer Valentino at a big gala that was attended by a gazillion movie stars, and it was awesome? Well, American Ballet Theatre just announced the details of its Metropolitan Opera House gala this May, and it sounds like it’s going to be equally glittery. Yay! Providing the […]