Tag: movie

Why It's the Right Time to Revisit the Movie "Tap"

Dance films and series are all the rage these days. But the trend didn’t appear out of thin air. In fact, the current obsession is built on decades of great dance movies. And right now—while you’re still stuck at home and already (beyond!) familiarized with pretty much everything already streaming—might just be the perfect time […]

Commercial Phenom Mollee Gray Writes a Letter to Her Teenage Self

If you’ve looked at a screen at some point within the past decade, chances are you’ve seen Mollee Gray dancing across it. Television? She appeared on “Glee,” “Shake It Up,” “Victorious,” “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” “The X Factor,” and “America’s Got Talent,” and even made it to the Top 8 on Season 6 of “So […]

Choreographer Jennifer Weber Shares What It Was Like on Set for "ZOMBIES 2"

I know it might be crazy, but did you hear—that ZOMBIES 2 comes out this week? It’s been almost two years since the first ZOMBIES installment was released on Disney Channel, and we’ve had a Zed-shaped hole in our hearts ever since. Luckily, we get even more zombie-cheerleader magic this Friday, February 14. Dance Spirit […]

All the Details on Janelle Monáe's Dance-Filled Oscars Performance

Historically, the Academy Awards aren’t a super-dancy event—after all, there’s still no award for best movie choreography. But this year, pop icon Janelle Monáe brought all the next-level dancing (and over-the-top theatricality) we ever could have dreamed of in her opening number. New York Magazine on Instagram: “The #Oscars tore a massive hole in the […]

Here's the First Trailer for the "In the Heights" Movie

Lights up on Washington Heights—because the trailer for the movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical In the Heights has arrived. It’s our first look into Lin-Manuel Miranda’s latest venture into film—because LMM isn’t stopping at three Tony awards, a Grammy award, and an Emmy. As an added bonus, we get to take a first […]

Acclaimed Dance Movie "Polina" Finally Hits Theaters

The French dance film that made waves at last year’s Venice Film Festival is now stateside: Polina opened in theaters on August 25th. The story follows a young Russian ballerina-in-the-making, played by dancer Anastasia Shevtsova, who’s performed with the Mariinsky Ballet. A still from Polina (Courtesy of Oscilloscope Laboratories) Polina is about to join the […]