Well, this gives a whole new meaning to “ballet babies.” Last week, the National Ballet of Canada released this adorable video celebrating the company’s newest “ballet moms.” In the awwww-inspiring clip, principals Heather Ogden, Greta Hodgkinson and Alejandra Perez-Gomez show off their adorable new babies and spill the unique challenges of being a working mom […]
Dance celebs are having quite a moment in the mainstream media right now, and let me tell you: I am ALL about it. The entire DS team has been living for Elle magazine’s “The Movement” video series, not to mention Kween Misty’s presence in just about every print or online media outlet. My current dancers-in-the-non-dance-world […]
There are few things we love more than adorable dance couples, especially when one-half of that couple is our very own 2016 Cover Model Search winner, Briar Nolet. She and her boyfriend Myles Erlick, known to fans everywhere as “Bryles” (<3), aren’t just the cutest couple—they’re easily the most talented (take, for example, their last […]
Tim Federle (by Rex Bonomelli) In our February issue (in subscribers’ hands now and on sale online), we got dancer-turned-author Tim Federle to spill the beans about making the transition from the stage to the page. If you read his debut novel Better Nate Than Ever (DS‘s April 2013 “Pick of the Month”), you know […]
How do you spell glamour? P-O-B. That’s the Paris Opéra Ballet, of course—the endlessly glam home of some of the world’s best dancers. I’m sure you’ve already drooled over the new POB website and its accompanying 3e Scene, a platform where performance meets digital art. You may have also noticed that the étoiles have new, beautifully […]
Harry Shum Jr., who we’ve been stalking for years—first as a nameless silhouette in an iPod commercial, then as Mike Chang on “Glee,” then as artistic director, choreographer and dancer for “The LXD”—has done it again. In a YouTube-video-gone-viral, “If you are in a shell…,” Harry is surrounded by colorful paints and dust, and he […]
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m willing to hear someone say “sorry” whenever and wherever…as long as that sorry is a Justin Bieber “Sorry.” Even though the original music video is basically perfect, I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of the variations, covers and updates that YouTube delivers unto us. My […]
As a Valentine’s Day special event last week, the Philadelphia Dance Center invited aspiring ballerinas’ dads to take class. The results were, predictably, ridiculously funny—and totally endearing. So very many creative variations on a piqué turn: Dad’s moving right along the floor tonight!!! Jumping turning, so impressive!!! A post shared by Philadelphia Dance Center (@pdc5678) […]