Bunheads, the day you’ve all been waiting for is FINALLY here: World Ballet Day! ✨✨✨ For almost 24 straight hours today, we’ll be treated to livestreams that feature classes, rehearsals, and interviews from around the globe. This year, the Royal Ballet, the Australian Ballet, and the Bolshoi Ballet are the official hosts; the Australian Ballet’s […]
Bunheads everywhere, rejoice! It was just announced that the always-epic World Ballet Day will be back for round five (FIVE) this year. And the big moment’s going to be here faster than you can say “gargouillade.” The consistently impressive celebration of all things ballet will return October 2, 2018. So far, the Royal Ballet, the […]
What does brilliant ballerina Juliet Doherty do when she’s not starring in musicals or feature films? She acts as a muse for soulful singer/songwriters, of course. Standout folk-pop musician Clarence Bucaro just released his new album, Passionate Kind, and hand-picked Doherty to star in the video for its title track—which we’re premiering exclusively. The song […]
Yana Cherepanova is a gifted 13-year-old student at St. Petersburg’s elite Vaganova Ballet Academy. Which is cool enough in its own right. But Yana is also the latest person to break the internet, thanks to the absolutely mind-boggling balance videos she’s been posting to Instagram. You guys: Just watch them. What. Yana Cherepanova 🐵 on […]
Oh, hey, nothing to see here, just a dancer casually executing complicated figure skating moves in pointe shoes attached to skating blades. POINTE SHOES. ATTACHED TO SKATING BLADES. SHE IS SKATING ON POINTE. Is this real life? It is. Or it was, rather, a few decades ago, as evidenced by the jaw-dropping vintage footage of […]
What’s better than a beautiful dancer freestyling to a lovely song? A beautiful dancer freestyling to a lovely song in triplicate, that’s what. The Technicolors tapped two of our favorites, ballerina Juliet Doherty and photographer Kenneth Edwards, to create the video for the acoustic version of their song “Congratulations, You’re A Doll.” To complement the […]
Yesterday, Chrissy Teigen posted an Instagram video of her trying out a pair of pointe shoes, with a hand from husband John Legend. Yes, Teigen is obviously not a trained dancer. Yes, she looks pretty awful in the video. Yes, she could’ve hurt herself. Dancers and dance fans have been quick to point out all […]
Move over, Sergei Polunin*: There’s a new ballet heartthrob in town. Well, not “new,” exactly: The fabulously talented Isaac Hernández has been a lead principal with the English National Ballet since 2015, and previously danced with Dutch National Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. (He’s also part of a distinguished dance family: You met his brother, […]