DanceEast, Ipswich The expressionist aesthetics of Egon Schiele’s nudes should make for riveting dance, but Shobana Jeyasingh’s production is a bit too beige It’s easy to see why the work of Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is...
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House; Sadler’s Wells, London Pam Tanowitz’s dazzling new piece for the Royal Ballet worked perfectly alongside Ashton and Cunningham. Elsewhere, the best of young talent bared all in vain The American...
If you've seen it once, you've seen it a million times: a pic or vid of an über-flexible dancer stretching her enviably limber limbs. She's got her banana feet jammed between a portable barre and the floor, or a Gumby-esque leg propped...
It's National Bullying Prevention Month—and Houston Ballet breakout star Harper Watters is exactly the advocate young dancers facing bullying need. Watters is no novice when it comes to slaying on social media , but his Bullying...
This sublime 1952 movie musical, in cinemas again, puts the artistry of Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and co on full, joyful display You can charm the critics but have nothing to eat! That’s the shrewd warning from Donald O’Connor’s...
From The Laundromat to Hedda Gabler, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
Celebrating 20 years at the Lyceum theatre in London this weekend, the Lion King stage show has been seen by 16 million people. Guardian photographer David Levene was given exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the Disney production...
Bailey Muñoz's journey to stardom on "So You Think You Can Dance" may have seemed instantaneous (he and his partner Mariah Russell quickly won over viewers' hearts and became the last two contestants standing ). But as it turns out,...
It seems like it should go without saying: Choreographers create on dancers…right? Right—except when they don't. Depending on your career path as a choreographer, you may end up working with nondancers frequently. Actors, models, and...
Star ballerina and choreographer passionately committed to dance in Cuba When Alicia Alonso was 20, and launched on a dancing career in New York, her future seemed assured. She had just been recruited to the city’s newly formed ballet...
After a grueling day in the studio, it's important to give your tired muscles some extra TLC. Baths are a great way to aid recovery, but figuring out the most effective temperature can get complicated—should you go piping hot, or ice...
In our Dear Katie series, Miami City Ballet soloist Kathryn Morgan answers your pressing dance questions. Have something you want to ask Katie? Email dearkatie@dancespirit.com for a chance to be featured! Dear Katie, I can do fouetté...
If, like us, you're obsessed with every move choreographer Phil Wright makes, then you know all about " The Parent Jam ," Wright's workshop series that gets the whole family into dance class. Videos of the masterclasses, in which Wright...
DISNEY! NIGHT! Disney Night on "Dancing with the Stars"! Sorry, but we're still not over the bedazzled amazing-ness that was last night's episode. If last week's lack of glitz and glamour left us feeling a bit underwhelmed , Disney Night...
The Yard, London In Hope Hunt and the Ascension Into Lazarus, the Northern Irish dancer embodies a group rarely explored in dance A car revs up outside the theatre and Oona Doherty tumbles out of the boot. She launches into the crowd,...
The finalists of Boris Charmatz’s Danse Élargie competition squared up to today’s doom and gloom There are questions about the validity of scoring art (hey, some of us have made a living out of it) but people love competitions. And one...
A drama competition for 200 naked people in a giant sauna? Our writer gets a sweaty taste of ‘aufgass’ in the Netherlands I am standing behind a partition rope, waiting for the theatre to open. An excited hum rises off the crowd, and...
The Place, London Lucy Guerin’s show features two dancers – one clothed and one nude – and explores identity and the public and private self Shame, power, money: so many issues and expectations surround female nudity, in both life and...
Sadler’s Wells, London Gisèle Vienne creates a mesmeric night of intrigue at a rave, while South African whirlwind Dada Masilo makes a ballet classic her own The women are coming: dark, dangerous, different. A good week for female...
Regardless of any drama surrounding Ellen DeGeneres which may or may not have occurred last week, we're still major fans of the majorly adorable Ellen-tWitch friendship. tWitch is a regular DJ and dance-master on Ellen's show, and we...
With effortless extensions, sky-high leaps, and equal parts elegance and strength, Ailey II company member Caroline Theodora Dartey is impossible to miss onstage. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Dartey actually started out training in...
Royal Opera House, London Pam Tanowitz’s gloriously rich Everyone Keeps Me is performed alongside bracing and serene revivals from Merce Cunningham and Frederick Ashton It’s a tough call to share a bill with Merce Cunningham and...
From The Day Shall Come to [Blank], here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
You already know how much we love Vanity Fair's "Movies in Motion" YouTube series, with its deep dives into the most iconic movie dance scenes of all time. (It's basically SparkNotes for your required dance-movie watching.) Now it's...
The hotly-debated Michael Jackson biomusical is back on. Not that it was ever officially off, but after its pre-Broadway Chicago run was canceled in February, its future seemed shaky. Now, the show has secured a Broadway theater, with...
What can the arcade classic tell us about competition, friendship and failure? Jasmine Price and Nikhil Vyas found out by making a show about it Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) stirs up a nostalgic feeling in many of us twentysomethings,...
Have you missed having the delightful Jenna Dewan in your living room on a regular basis since her departure from "World of Dance" ? Well, happy news: Dewan is about to step up (NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT SORRY) to another dance TV show...
It's been over three years since the first High Strung was released, and fans of the dancetastic movie have been itching for more ever since. Thankfully, the film's sequel, High Strung: Free Dance , is set to premiere tomorrow, October...
Choreographer Jennifer Lacey explains why there is more modern art than movement in her new life-coaching piece In the basement of Nottingham Contemporary art gallery, Jennifer Lacey fans out a set of large homemade tarot cards. I pick a...
Congratulations to the September Cover Model Search Editors' Choice video winner, Chloe Exline! Catch her solo below, and make sure to enter the Cover Model Search here . Chloe Exline, "Dulcinea Variation"
It was fall 2016. Gianna Reisen—then 17 and in her final year at the School of American Ballet, New York City Ballet's official training school—had just been made the offer of a lifetime: the chance to choreograph a work for the...