Tag: beauty and the beast

Why Isn't There an Oscar for Best Choreography?

The 2018 Oscar noms are here. Which is fun and all; we’ll never not get excited about a night of glitz and glamor and, when we’re lucky, pretty great dancing. But we’d be a heck of a lot more excited if the Academy Awards included a Best Choreography category. And really—why don’t they? Last year, […]

Let's Talk About All That Dancing at the Oscars

I expected the borderline-inappropriate jokes. I expected the appearance by Ted (sighhhhh). I even kind of expected the tribute to boobs on film. But what I didn’t expect from Seth MacFarlane’s turn as host of the Academy Awards was a whole bunch of dance numbers. Dance! And here I was thinking the Busby Berkeley-style opening […]

My First Broadway Show

Last week, the Dance Spirit editors were discussing how much we loved the Broadway shows we’ve seen lately: Annie, Bring It On, Elf. And that got us thinking about our very first Broadway experiences. Do you remember the magic you felt the first time curtain went up and the star stepped into the spotlight? And […]