Since 1954, Dance Magazine has celebrated the living legends among us with the Dance Magazine Awards. This year, in light of deep reflections on racial equity inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, the selection committee decided to take a close look at exactly who the magazine has honored over the past seven decades. Unsurprisingly, […]
Move over “So You Think You Can Dance” (but not too far, because we still love you). The UK has a new dance reality show and it sounds awesome. The BBC’s Young Dancer 2015 premiered this fall, and there are a few things that set this competition apart. Entrance was open to anyone who could […]
Olé! The Royal’s Marianela Nuñez as Kitri in Acosta’s “Don Quixote” (photo Emma Kauldhar/ROH) Can we talk about how amazing this ballet (and, as of late, Broadway) broadcast trend is? You may not be able to travel to Moscow, or New York, or London, but hey, no worries: Now you can see great performances by […]
It seems like the ballet world always has one or two James Dean-y bad boys, super-talented men who buck convention—not always the easiest thing to do in ballet—and do things their own way. Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Carlos Acosta, Rasta Thomas (who founded, fittingly, the Bad Boys of Dance): They’re all amazing performers who, thanks […]