• Things To Do At Home
    Saturday, January 23, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    This week, celebrate Australia Day, make masala chai and listen to Natalie Portman discuss her new children’s book.
  • ‘Slowing Down to Feel’: Moving Our Minds Around Our Bodies
    Saturday, January 23, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    It’s cold outside. The pandemic is getting worse. It’s time to look inward with the help of movement practices that create healthy bodies and minds.
  • Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch online
    Saturday, January 23, 2021 from Dance | The Guardian
    From live-streams of new plays to classics from the archive, here are some of the top shows online now or coming soon – this page is updated regularly The annual extravaganza presents more than two dozen full shows from the past 30 years...
  • Charlene Gehm, Protean Dancer With the Joffrey, Dies at 69
    Friday, January 22, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    She could be combative in one duet, a picture of stillness in another and witty in still another role. On Broadway, she danced in “West Side Story.”
  • How Dancers Can Beat Zoom Fatigue
    Friday, January 22, 2021 from Dance Spirit
    Now that we're more than nine months into the pandemic, there's a big chance you're feeling Zoom-ed out. Read: Totally over using the video-conferencing app for school and dance classes—and everything else. And according to...
  • 5 Things to Do This Weekend
    Thursday, January 21, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually.
  • Kennedy Center to Honor Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Allen and Others
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    Debbie Allen, Joan Baez, Garth Brooks and Midori will also be celebrated with a combination of virtual and small live performances, slated for May.
  • How Dance Helped Me Achieve Success in My Nondance Career Path
    Wednesday, January 20, 2021 from Dance Spirit
    Like most kids, by the age of 4 I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up…a dancer. And sure, every kid picks a career to play along with—doctor, veterinarian, princess. But from that young age of 4, I was determined to turn my...
  • La MaMa Festival Is Still Moving, if Somewhat in Place
    Tuesday, January 19, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    This year’s La MaMa Moves! adds up to a picture of the moment: a little provisional, with flashes of promise.
  • 4 Dance Works Honoring the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
    Monday, January 18, 2021 from Dance Spirit
    Social justice has a been a prominent theme in many Black American dancemakers' repertoires. Today, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day­—and in the midst of ongoing social and political turmoil in America—this theme carries new resonance. Dr....
  • Mads Mikkelsen Dancing Days Were Over Until ‘Another Round’
    Sunday, January 17, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    The actor Mads Mikkelsen ends Thomas Vinterberg’s film with a wild delight of a drunken dance. The man, once a professional dancer, can move.
  • Things To Do At Home
    Saturday, January 16, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    This week, celebrate Martin Luther King’s Birthday, revisit “The West Wing” and explore a new exhibit from the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
  • Barbara Weisberger, a Force in American Ballet, Dies at 94
    Friday, January 15, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    She founded the Pennsylvania Ballet, with George Balanchine as an adviser, and turned it into a nationally acclaimed company.
  • Congrats to Our 2021 Cover Model Search Semifinalists!
    Friday, January 15, 2021 from Dance Spirit
    Each and every month in 2020, we Dance Spirit editors selected a 2021 Cover Model Search semifinalist. And as 2020 came to a close (and we truly thought it never would), we selected our December winner , rounding out our 12 fabulous 2021...
  • 11 Home Workouts That Will Mix Up Your Exercise Routine
    Friday, January 15, 2021 from Dance on Huffington Post
    Let off steam and release some essential endorphins with these HIIT, yoga and dance classes. Your body and mind will thank you.
  • Baryshnikov Arts Announces Digital Season
    Friday, January 15, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    New work by Kyle Marshall, Bijayini Satpathy, Justin Hicks and others will debut throughout the spring.
  • The Arts Are in Crisis. Here’s How Biden Can Help.
    Friday, January 15, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    The pandemic has decimated the livelihoods of those who work in the arts. How can the new administration intervene and make sure it doesn’t happen again? A critic offers an ambitious plan.
  • ‘Tiny Pretty Things’ Falls for Big Ugly Ballet Stereotypes
    Friday, January 15, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    Why is it so hard to show the dance world as it is? This Netflix series about students at a ballet school is yet another cartoonish depiction.
  • Celebrity fab abs: who’s top of the lockdown dance fitness classes?
    Friday, January 15, 2021 from Dance | The Guardian
    Whether it’s dancing with Oti Mabuse or hopping with Marcus Rashford, our reporter has the numbers and abs to find out who is Joe Wicks’s biggest rival As we settle into our third lockdown, there are many sheep/goat, wheat/chaff...
  • Diana Payne-Myers obituary
    Friday, January 15, 2021 from Dance | The Guardian
    My friend Diana Payne-Myers, who has died aged 92 after a short illness, was appointed MBE for services to dance in 2002. She liked to go barefoot through the London summers but succumbed to footwear for the investiture. Would she frolic...
  • 5 Things to Do This Weekend
    Friday, January 15, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually.
  • Sir Robert Cohan obituary
    Thursday, January 14, 2021 from Dance | The Guardian
    Choreographer and influential teacher who pioneered contemporary dance in the UK Sir Robert Cohan, who has died aged 95, transformed the dance scene in Britain in the 1960s. A charismatic dancer, notable choreographer, great teacher and...
  • Robert Cohan: mesmerising master who changed the course of British dance
    Thursday, January 14, 2021 from Dance | The Guardian
    The charismatic choreographer and beloved teacher was an inspirational figure as he shared the secrets of movement Sir Robert Cohan, modern dance legend, dies aged 95 In the 1970s, Robert Cohan would arrive at the studios of London...
  • Sir Robert Cohan, modern dance legend, dies aged 95
    Wednesday, January 13, 2021 from Dance | The Guardian
    The choreographer and influential teacher was a pioneer of contemporary dance in the UK Tributes have been paid to the choreographer Sir Robert Cohan, a pioneer of contemporary dance in Britain, who has died at the age of 95. A New...
  • How Broadway Dancer Cory Lingner Perfected the TikTok Duet
    Wednesday, January 13, 2021 from Dance Spirit
    With #SocialDisDancing still very much in place, it's a challenge for dance partners to perform safely, and even harder to perform safely together . But Broadway's Cory Lingner may have found the solution—on TikTok. He's using the app to...
  • Playwright Mark Ravenhill: why I took up ballet after my mum died
    Wednesday, January 13, 2021 from Dance | The Guardian
    He tried dance to cope with grief – and found himself in a class with ‘25 mostly retired ladies’. It all fed into a new play, about his mum, his childhood and his obsession with Jemima Puddle-Duck The playwright of Shopping and Fucking,...
  • Join Us for a Q&A With ABT's Gabe Stone Shayer on January 21
    Monday, January 11, 2021 from Dance Spirit
    Gabe Stone Shayer, American Ballet Theatre's newest soloist, has long been a standout onstage. But the 27-year-old dancer—the first African-American male to graduate from Russia's Bolshoi Ballet Academy—is also branching out into...
  • The Dos and Don'ts of Partnering
    Monday, January 11, 2021 from Dance Spirit
    Few things are as nerve-racking as partnering class, especially when you're a newbie. No matter the genre, the stakes feel high—and the potential for awkwardness feels unlimited. How do you avoid smacking your partner in the face? How do...
  • Magic Mike Live review – Channing Tatum's sex positive strip show dials up the heat in Sydney
    Friday, January 8, 2021 from Dance | The Guardian
    The Arcadia, Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park While the show never takes itself too seriously, it’s sincere in its message women can get anything we want The opening scene of Magic Mike Live features a parade of men dressed, variously,...
  • The Dancer's Guide to Creating Change in Your College Dance Department
    Friday, January 8, 2021 from Dance Spirit
    Dance Spirit has highlighted college dance programs committed to dismantling white supremacy . But what if you arrive at your dream dance school to find that Western dance forms are at the center of every core requirement, or that your...
  • Dance workouts got me through lockdown – here are 10 of the best
    Friday, January 8, 2021 from Dance | The Guardian
    From the J Lo Super Bowl challenge to Cher-obics, pick a style and dance your blues away First, I’d like to apologise to my neighbours. Last year was difficult enough, and I doubt the sight of me attempting to twerk in my overlooked...
  • Quick steps: dynamic dance shorts to watch online
    Friday, January 8, 2021 from Dance | The Guardian
    Cathy Marston returns to performing, poetry and dance entwine in Wales and the Akram Khan Company inspires mass movement in the best short films to view at home Amid lockdown frustration last summer, acclaimed choreographer Cathy Marston...
  • The Royal Academy of Dance: From Music Hall to Ballet Royalty
    Thursday, January 7, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    The history of the Royal Academy of Dance, outlined at an exhibition in London, is synonymous with the history of ballet in Britain.
  • There’s Dance All Over, No Matter Where You Look
    Thursday, January 7, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    Live dance may largely be on hold, but there’s still beauty and catharsis outside of theaters, in the movements we encounter every day. We asked four photographers to show us how people are physically navigating a world in which...
  • 5 Things to Do This Weekend
    Thursday, January 7, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually.
  • Sunil Kothari, Eminent Scholar of Indian Dance, Dies at 87
    Wednesday, January 6, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    A critic for The Times of India and a teacher of youthful energy, he explored a country rich in dance traditions, interviewing hundreds of gurus.
  • Helgi Tomasson to Step Down at San Francisco Ballet
    Wednesday, January 6, 2021 from NYT > Dance
    The longtime leader of the company will end his tenure as its artistic director and principal choreographer in 2022.
  • Charlee Fagan is Your December Cover Model Search Editors' Choice Winner
    Wednesday, January 6, 2021 from Dance Spirit
    Congratulations to the December Cover Model Search Editors' Choice video winner, Charlee Fagan! Watch her solo below, and be sure to enter the Cover Model Search here . Charlee Fagan, "Valis" Your browser does not support the video tag.
  • Here's How 3 Top Collegiate Dance Teams Are Weathering the Pandemic
    Monday, January 4, 2021 from Dance Spirit
    The dance team life is practically defined by togetherness: on the court, in the stadium, at team-bonding events and in rehearsal after rehearsal. So how are America's collegiate dance teams even able to #SocialDisDance through this...
  • Sydney festival teeters 'on a knife-edge' ahead of Wednesday's opening
    Monday, January 4, 2021 from Dance | The Guardian
    The first major Australian arts festival of 2021 will be a litmus test for those to come as it navigates shifting sands around the city’s recent Covid outbreak Sydney festival, the first major Australian arts festival of 2021, is “on a...
  • New year arts: Observer critics pick the culture to get us through to spring
    Sunday, January 3, 2021 from Dance | The Guardian
    From laughter punches to legendary artists, rock and romance to drama and dance… our writers on cultural treats to light up the months ahead Taking its title from a Zadie Smith line, Collapsed in Sunbeams is the much-anticipated debut...
  • Jerusalem, Beckett and Bridget Christie: theatre, comedy and dance to book in 2021
    Saturday, January 2, 2021 from Dance | The Guardian
    Modern masterpiece Jerusalem storms back and Trevor Nunn goes underground with Beckett, while Bob Marley gets a musical and Frankenstein becomes a ballet Continue reading...
  • Why You Should Know Hip-Hop Headliner Aliyah Rose Maese
    Thursday, December 31, 2020 from Dance Spirit
    Whether she's tearing it up in class or shining on the small screen in Disney Channel's "Disney Fam Jam," Aliyah Rose Maese is a high-octane bundle of spunk who was born to dance. No, really: Only a few years after she started training,...
  • 11 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2021
    Thursday, December 31, 2020 from NYT > Dance
    Nicolas Cage hosts the history of swearing. Lorde writes a book and Julie Mehretu takes over the Whitney. This new year has to be better, right?
  • Virtual New Year's Eve: how to party like it’s 2021 from the comfort of your front room
    Thursday, December 31, 2020 from Dance | The Guardian
    ‘Moon’ raves, gourmet dinners and online erotica are some of the ways to spice up that stay-at-home evening For many, New Year’s Eve 2020 will be spent doing little more than watching yet more television. But beatboxer SK Shlomo has made...
  • 5 Things to Do This New Year’s Weekend
    Thursday, December 31, 2020 from NYT > Dance
    Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually.
  • The Dancer's Guide to Competing on a Budget
    Wednesday, December 30, 2020 from Dance Spirit
    It's no secret that competition dance is expensive. Like, really expensive. Add in a global pandemic that has left millions of Americans unemployed and it can seem downright outrageous. Still, dancers need to dance! Dreams need to be...
  • 20 of Our Favorite 2020 TikToks
    Tuesday, December 29, 2020 from Dance Spirit
    In a year that has been especially tough on the dance world, TikTok has been a welcome distraction. The app, in all its dance-y, super-woke, and, often, delightfully cringe-y (ahem, #DixieDAmelioOneWholeDay) glory, gave us the content we...
  • Robert Green Writes a Letter to His Teenage Self
    Monday, December 28, 2020 from Dance Spirit
    You may know him from the Top 10 on "So You Think You Can Dance" Season 14 . You might have caught him touring the world with Taylor Swift. Or you might remember his viral video from 2015, where he revealed to his mom that he was cast in...
  • Raising the barre: Disney's On Pointe puts the bounce back into ballet
    Monday, December 28, 2020 from Dance | The Guardian
    A warm new doc renders the anguish and angst of Black Swan passé and shows dancers’ steel, solidarity and positive attitude The antidote to tales of the ballet world’s dark underbelly – Black Swan , Netflix’s soapy new thriller Tiny...
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