What hasn’t Alex Wong done? He conquered the ballet world, performing as a principal soloist with Miami City Ballet. He blew up Broadway in the cast of Newsies. He almost made it to the end of “So You Think You Can Dance” Season 7 (with his #1 fan being none other than Ellen DeGeneres) before […]
Sabra Johnson, who didn’t begin training until age 16, beat out former professional ballet dancer Danny Tidwell on Season 3 of “So You Think You Can Dance.”(Kelsey McNeal/FOX) Picture this: Two dancers are up for elimination on “So You Think You Can Dance.” One’s been training since age 3 and is technically stunning. The other […]
Alex Wong spilled the beans about his “So You Think You Can Dance” Season 9 All-Stardom over the weekend, but it wasn’t until last night that Nigel finally tweeted the names of the rest of the All-Star crew—and oh boy, is it a crazy good list. According to @dizzyfeet, here’s who you can expect to […]
While Nigel and co. have been very loose-lipped about this season’s “So You Think You Can Dance” guest judges, mum’s been the word about its All-Stars. So all of us at DS did a little happy dance (OK—a big happy dance) when the one and only Alex Wong tweeted this weekend that he would, in […]
Alex Wong has just about done it all: He was a principal soloist with Miami City Ballet, he rocked “So You Think You Can Dance” Season 7, he appeared on the TV show “Smash” and, most recently, he made his Broadway debut in the cast of Newsies. Now, after 154 performances on the Great White […]
Few things excite us more in the Dance Spirit office than Newsies on Broadway. Seriously, we’re obsessed. Which was why our day in Brooklyn shooting four of the Newsies dancers for DS‘s July/August cover story was one of the best days ever! Sure, it was freezing, but the boys found some pretty creative ways to […]
Photo by Deen van Meer Extra! Extra! Read all about it: Newsies is the hottest new musical on Broadway! That’s right: The cult ’90s Disney film, a fictionalized retelling of the 1899 newsboy strike, has landed on the Great White Way. And the pedigreed dancers playing its scruffy, paper-peddling, lovable newsboys are the new kings […]
I’m editing a piece for our May/June issue in which dancers talk about their favorite performances. It includes some pretty amazing stories. (New York City Ballet principal Wendy Whelan’s contribution made me cry—it’s so moving.) “So You Think You Can Dance” alum and current Newsies boy Evan Kasprzak sent in a quote just a tad […]