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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
‘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...
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...
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...
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...
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...