Remember a few weeks back, when Vanity Fair put out a video featuring Petra Collins, who is very much not a professional dancer or dance teacher, teaching ballet? Well, this week, the mag has Elle Fanning, who is also very much not a professional dancer or dance teacher, demonstrating how to do a piqué turn […]
You guys. This is getting a little bit out of hand. First the Kendall Jenner debacle, and now this? Despite the fact that dance seems to be getting more coverage than ever before (thanks to celebs, TV shows, movies and tasteful advertising campaigns), there are still lingering stereotypes about ballet being easy, or dance not being a […]
Julie Kent has danced with American Ballet Theatre for 30 years. That’s an impressive career in any context, but it’s especially impressive in the world of ballet, where dancers are subject to the whims of their fabulous but frequently fickle bodies. And Kent isn’t just any ballerina. For a whole generation of dancers and dance […]
I used to be one of those crazy people who danced in 500 performances of The Nutcracker every year. Now I’m an even crazier person who goes to watch 500 performances of The Nutcracker every year. And as someone who’s seen all kinds of versions from all kinds of angles, I can tell you that few Nutcrackers compare […]
You guys know we love it when fashion and dance collide—it usually produces a photo shoot from our wildest dreams. (I still can’t get over the Natalia Vodianova and Benjamin Millepied shoot for Vogue magazine.) Wendy Whelan (photo by David Michalek for Vanity Fair magazine) Vanity Fair , which has a long history of celebrating […]
It’s been a big news week for our favorite New York City Ballet couple, principals Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck! First, it was announced that Peck will star in Susan Stroman’s new musical, Little Dancer, next fall at Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center. Last year we heard that she was workshopping the title role, but we […]