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12/09/2020
Tiler Peck's Top 10 Tips for Training at Home On March 15, New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck announced to her 172,000-plus Instagram followers that she'd be teaching a live class from her family's home in Bakersfield, California, where she's currently waiting out COVID-19. Little did she know that she'd receive such a viral response. Si
11/09/2020
This Corporate Manager Still Takes Ballet—and She Says It Helps Her Slay Presentations Working in corporate America can be a grind, so, for many, vacation is a welcome opportunity to relax and unwind. But for Jane Collier, it's a chance to ramp up her ballet training.Though she's based in Chicago, where she works in global sourcing for Walgreens Boots Alliance, over the last several y...
11/09/2020
Spin Class: How to Master the Backspin The backspin is a classic breaking move we could all use in our special skills repertoire. We asked Robert Taylor Jr.—a Broadway Dance Center faculty member whose resumé includes dancing with Rihanna on "So You Think You Can Dance" and in Spongebob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical—to walk us t...
11/09/2020
Gabrielle Lamb Has Found an Ideal Stage for a Pandemic: A Carpet What defines a stage these days? While dance artists are figuring that out, Gabrielle Lamb's richly detailed movement has found a perfect home on a 5x8-foot Persian rug.The New York City–based choreographer/dancer and self-taught filmmaker has been taking her rug out and about in her Carpet Series...
09/06/2020
Matthew Bourne's company perform The Red Shoes from home Following the cancellation of its UK tour, the cast of Bourne’s acclaimed dance production perform it in their living rooms and gardens in a 12-minute lockdown film
19/06/2018
An interesting take on online classes:
How to Make the Most of Online Dance Training You're dressed in your favorite gear, ready to dance—but instead of heading to the studio, you take out your smartphone. A dance celeb has posted a new master class online, and you can't wait to dive in. Then, you might watch a popular choreographer's newest step-by-step tutorial. Who doesn't want...
08/06/2018
*This* Is How You Should Actually Warm Up Before Dancing
*This* Is How You Should Actually Warm Up Before Dancing For many dancers, a "warmup" consists of sitting on the floor stretching their legs in various positions. But this strategy only reduces your muscles' ability to work properly—it negatively affects your strength, endurance, balance and speed for up to an hour.
Happy to all our dancers!
14/02/2018
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Celebrate Valentine's Day Ballet-Style With These 8 Productions of "Romeo and Juliet" Valentine's Day makes February the perfect month for ballet companies to perform Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's famous tale of star-crossed lovers. A few companies presented their versions earlier this month and many are on their way in the next few weeks. We rounded up eight companies including Ne...
06/07/2017
Evgenia Obraztsova - Grand Pas de Quatre Variation https://t.co/jhcoZUuPN8
Evgenia Obraztsova - Grand Pas de Quatre Variation Evgenia Obraztsova in Taglioni's Pas de Quatre performing Lucile Grahn's variation to the music of Cesare Pugni. Choreographed by Jules Perrot. This performa...
17/05/2017
Boy Ballet Dancer | Philadelphia Dance Center // 60 Second Docs https://t.co/cy69EV4IjJ
Boy Ballet Dancer | Philadelphia Dance Center // 60 Second Docs Not many boys dance ballet, but 11-year-old Gabriel Romero, who trains at Thom McIntyre’s Philadelphia Dance Center, is the ultimate boy ballerina (or baller...