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 […]
Dance Spirit‘s January cover girl, Sophia Lucia, on the red carpet before the Dance Awards in NYC (photo via @sophialucia5678) Chock full of utterly amazing dance talent, silly jokes and wild choreography, the 2014 Dance Awards closed out its NYC event last night at the Hammerstein Ballroom. The three-and-a-half-hour celebration really had it all—from spectacular […]
Imagine posting on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook and getting thousands of “likes” and dozens of comments—in minutes. For Sophia Lucia, Hayden Hopkins, Mia Diaz and Ashi Ross, that’s what using social media is like every day. These four dancers have become internet sensations, thanks to their exceptional technique, winning personalities and eagerness to interact with […]
…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, […]
The new issue! Cover shot by Erin Baiano. The funnest day in the Dance Spirit office every month is “new issue day.” Even though we’ve just wrapped up months of working on a particular issue, it’s still crazy exciting when we actually get our copies and get to hold them and gawk at them and […]
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There are about a million and one reality competition shows these days—and for good reason: We love being wowed by talented (and often crazy) people. But lately, it seems a lot of these shows have been overrun with some pretty awesome dancers. Just in the last two weeks some notable faces have popped up on […]
Sophia Lucia and a Guinness World Record judge after she’d set the new pirouette record. When we last caught up with rising star Sophia Lucia, she mentioned she was going to attempt to break the Guinness World Record for pirouettes. And she did just that this past weekend! In an event sponsored by Kids Artistic […]