Tag: christmas

The Rockettes' Off-Season Fitness Routines

Watching the Radio City Rockettes perform a dazzling array of precision dance routines in their annual Christmas Spectacular show is a tradition many New Yorkers use to welcome the winter season. But how do these leggy ladies spend their off-season and what do they do to maintain their pristine technique, strength, and stamina when they’re […]

Christmas in July, Brought to You by the Boston Ballet Nutcracker Bear

Yes, Dance Spirit, there really is a Santa Claus. And we’ve got proof—namely, the delightfully silly stunt Boston Ballet’s Nutcracker Bear pulled off last week to celebrate the start of ticket sales for BB’s 2017 production of the holiday ballet classic. For reasons that would maybe be clearer to me if I were a Bostonite, […]

A Christmas Nutcracker Story to Make You Feel #AllTheFeels

A merry, happy, holly-jolly Christmas to everyone celebrating! This is one of those days when—as we sit in a pile of wrapping paper debris, snuggly in our snowflake onesies, eating delicious cookies and celebrating the end (or near-end) of an insane Nutcracker season—we can’t help but be intensely grateful for all the good things in […]

All We Want for Christmas Is the Grinch's Dance Moves

So if you’re a procrastinator and have yet figure out what you want for Christmas, then turn your attention to Andrew Barret Cox’s most recent Instagram video: Yup, that pretty much sums it up. This video, those dance moves, on repeat until the morning. We’ll be dancing the night away like this, and we hope […]

What Dancers Really Want for Christmas

Dear Santa, Hi! How are you? Busy, I bet! Har har. (Ho ho?) Look, I know I’m late—it’s Christmas Eve, and I’m sure you’re dealing with all kinds of #reindeerprobz—but I thought I’d reach out to you anyway. Because I’m not just some girl who’ll be happy with a Kylie Lip Kit and Adele tour […]

A DS Christmas Wish

Get it, Santa. (via netanimations.net) We wish you a merry Christmas, a happy belated-Hanukkah and a joyous early-Kwanzaa! If you’re celebrating today, we hope you’ve had a magical morning—filled with hot cocoa, holiday carols, bear hugs and Santa surprises. While old Kris Kringle may be through making his rounds for this year, we’ve still got […]

All We Want for Christmas is…

…gooey cinnamon buns for breakfast, a giant mug of hot chocolate with whipped cream on top and a roaring fire in the fireplace. OK, and a few other things. We’ll get to those in a sec. First: Merry Christmas, everyone, from all of the Dance Spirit editors! It’s arguably the most festive day of the year, […]