Tag: billy bell

Billy Bell, Travel Vlogger

If you’re a Billy Bell fan (and if you’re not, we’re not friends anymore), you know that Billy recently joined the very prestigious Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. If you’re a Cedar Lake fan (and if not, again, we just don’t get you), you know that the company tours all over the place on a regular […]

Apply Yourself (to the 2014 YoungArts Program)

A young Billy Bell at YoungArts Week 2008 (by Juan Cabrera) As of this week, applications for the National YoungArts Foundation’s 2014 program are officially being accepted! The list of now-famous YoungArts alumni is a long one: Longtime Alvin Ailey dancer Linda Celeste Sims was a 1994 YoungArts Winner for dance, and choreographic genius Billy […]

The Start of Something Big

Yuan Yuan Tan in Neumeier’s The Little Mermaid (ErikTomasson) 11 pros on what first inspired them to dance:   Yuan Yuan Tan Principal at San Francisco Ballet “My inspiration is Natalia Makarova. I used to watch tapes of her performing over and over and marvel at her port de bras.”        Comfort Fedoke (Kelsey […]

See Billy Bell's Lunge Dance Collective!

Obsessed with Billy Bell? We definitely are. If you’re in the Houston, TX or Boulder, CO areas, you’re in luck! Billy’s Lunge Dance Collective will present their newest show “You’ll Never Be Alone” at The Hobby Center in Houston August 10 and the Boulder Fringe Festival August 16-24. Be sure to get your tickets now! […]

5 Reasons to Get Excited About Step Up Revolution

As we’ve discussed, the DS crew was lucky enough to get into a screening of Step Up Revolution last night (huge thank-you to Broadway Dance Center for the tickets!). And oh my gosh, you guys: It’s amazing. We laughed, we screamed, we almost peed our pants multiple times. Here are just five of the many […]

All Eyes On Chantel

“The first time I saw Chantel Aguirre dance was in a video,” recalls choreographer Travis Wall. “My first thought was that she had crazy lines. My next thought was that I wanted to meet her.” A few months later, Wall did meet Chantel, who was 18 at the time and working as an assistant at […]