In our “Dear Katie” series, Miami City Ballet soloist Kathryn Morgan answers your pressing dance questions. Have something you want to ask Katie? Email [email protected] for a chance to be featured! Dear Katie, I’m a pretty good turner, except for one thing: Whenever I pirouette en dehors, I turn in my front foot just before […]
For dancers, aches and pains are just a way of life. But deciding which medication to take for what pain, and when? It can be confusing. Dance Spirit talked to two experts in the field to find out everything you ever wanted to know about pain relievers. The Whos and Whats According to Jeff Russell, […]
Well Dance Spirit fans, it’s official—we have been blessed with the first Jonas Brother music video of 2020. And just when you thought your favorite singing trio couldn’t get any better, they came into the decade with one of the most dance-packed music videos we’ve seen in a minute. In the video, the Jo Bros […]
When a dancer’s resumé includes winning “World of Dance,” appearing on both “Ellen” and “The Kids’ Choice Awards,” and dancing with Justin Bieber, N.E.R.D., and Lil Wayne, that dancer isn’t usually 10 years old. But hip-hopper Ayden Nguyen, affectionately known as the “mini Sean Lew,” has already managed to captivate audiences all over the world […]
In our “Dear Katie” series, Miami City Ballet soloist Kathryn Morgan answers your pressing dance questions. Have something you want to ask Katie? Email [email protected] for a chance to be featured! Dear Katie, I’m 17 and just discovered ballet. I’ve been taking class almost every day for about a year, and my teachers say that […]
Why do you dance? Because you love it? To compete, to perform, to express yourself? In the Afro-Cuban folkloric tradition, dance is so deeply entwined with music, storytelling, and religion that almost everyone dances, and there’s almost always a reason to be dancing. “In life, there are so many celebrations to dance about,” says Noibis […]
For dancers, summer is synonymous with summer intensives—weeks-long programs filled with classes, rehearsals, and cross-training. And today, many dancers are trying to cram as much as possible into their warm-weather “breaks” by enrolling in two, three, even four intensives over the course of a single summer. But while dancing literally all summer might sound like […]
Ohio University sophomore Morgan Arcoraci was at a dance audition a few years ago when disaster struck. “People kept coming up to me, asking for my name. I thought I was really killing it!” she recalls. “It turned out I’d pinned my number upside-down. When they asked me to fix it, I was so upset […]