Tag: chloe arnold

Derek Hough is Making Moves

It’s totally Derek Hough’s year. From winning an Emmy and choreographing at the Olympics to competing this season on “Dancing with the Stars” and performing on a North American tour with sister Julianne, Derek seems to be checking almost everything off of a very full bucket list. Oh, and did we mention he’s starring in […]

Sydney Burtis

Audiences around the U.S. may know Sydney Burtis as ballet girl Keeley Gibson from the national Broadway tour of Billy Elliot. But with a passion for rhythm and feet that won’t quit, the 13-year-old is really a tap dancer at heart. Last summer, she won Junior Miss Adrenaline at Nationals—the first female tapper to ever […]

Maud Arnold: 10 Reasons I Love Tap

1. Tap is by the people, for the people. Anyone can tap: young, old, skinny, fat, tall, short. There’s no discrimination. 2. Being a tapper means I get to work with my sister, Chloé! Creating the D.C. Tap Festival has been a dream come true for both of us. 3. Tap is so much fun […]

Acing A Capella

Chloé Arnold (by Matthew Murphy) You walk onstage for your tap routine—click, click, click—and take your opening position for a performance a capella (without music). You begin to dance, each tap breaking the silence in the theater all over again. Clickety-clack, ka-lack click, a-kik-kik-kik-kik clap… Tapping a capella can be exhilarating, but with no beats […]

Ballet Blast from the Past

Sometimes Facebook is a magical place. Just this morning, I found a real gem in my newsfeed: an image from a November 2001 Vogue profile of two up-and-coming New York City Ballet dancers, Ashley Bouder and Carla Körbes. Vogue did a good job talent-scouting, because today, of course, Bouder’s a principal at NYCB and Körbes […]

Get Syncopated With Chloé Arnold & Her Ladies—And Rihanna!

When it comes to her killer, always dance-worthy tunes, Rihanna needs no assistance. Girl’s got the “I will make you get up and move” thing nailed down. But the one thing that perks up her hit song “Where Have You Been?” just a little? Tap. Specifically, Chloé Arnold’s tap group, the Syncopated Ladies. Check out […]

You Could Be in This Tap-Tastic New Film

These days, awesome new documentaries about ballet, modern or hip hop are popping up all the time. But it seems like tap has been underrepresented in Hollywood recently. That is, until now! Superstar tap sisters Chloé and Maud Arnold are working on a feature-length documentary, Tap World, that will showcase inspiring tap stories from around […]

Alaman Diadhiou

This 11-year-old tapper was born for the spotlight. (by Marc Lecureuil) Give Alaman Diadhiou a seemingly impossible challenge and he’ll not only prove it’s possible, he’ll make it look simple. When Debbie Allen cast him in the title role of her show Twist: An American Musical in 2010, the then–9-year-old had never sung anything but […]