You’re probably already following your favorite dancers on Instagram, but did you know that you can follow many of their dogs, too? We rounded up some of our favorite dog-centered accounts and hashtags to keep you pawsitively entertained (sorry, we can’t help ourselves). Read more at pointemagazine.com!
Bunheads, this one’s for you. They say you can tell a Nutcracker by its “Snow” scene—and we fully believe it. There are so many versions with extra goodies—olive branches! Fake snow! Sleds! Choirs! Snow queens!—and each brings a special something to the holiday favorite. But do you know which ballet has what? Loading…
You guys, the solution to “dad dancing” has been right under our noses all along: It’s to hire American Ballet Theater principal/face of Nike David Hallberg as dance coach to the masses! Earlier this week, Business Insider got the danseur of all danseurs (IMHO, at least) to get back to basics with their video producer […]
In our “Dear Katie” series, former NYCB soloist Kathryn Morgan answers your pressing dance questions. Have something you want to ask Katie? Email [email protected] a chance to be featured! Dear Katie, I dated a guy at my studio for almost a year, and we just broke up. It’s terrible. I don’t want to go to […]
Simone Botha Welgemoed is the ultimate dancer: She’s performed with ballet companies, competed in dance competitions, and toured internationally on commercial gigs. She’s currently a member of Bovim Ballet, while also juggling freelance jobs on films in her home of Cape Town, South Africa. But she’s missing something essential to most dancers: her hearing. Welgemoed […]
Anyone who follows enough dancers on Instagram knows that we love to cook (and, like all good Insta users, to post pretty pictures of the delicious things we make). But dancer-chefs were a thing long before the internets. And there’s no better evidence of that than Balanchine ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq’s delightful Ballet Cook Book, […]
In our “Dear Katie” series, former NYCB soloist Kathryn Morgan answers your pressing dance questions. Have something you want to ask Katie? Email [email protected] a chance to be featured! Dear Katie, I have a really bad habit: I bend my knee when I step up to piqué, especially during piqué turns. I feel like it […]
Sophia Lucia burst onto the dance scene as a tiny tapper with a crazy knack for pirouettes. (She busted out a whopping 55 turns in 2013 to earn a Guinness World Record!) Thanks to her top-notch technique and unreal flexibility—not to mention a brief appearance on “Dance Moms”—Lucia became a household name practically overnight. Now, […]