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Travis Wall's Poignant Music Video Will Give You All the Feels

Dance legend and choreographer Travis Wall is championing the LGBT community in one of the most brilliant and moving ways possible: Through dance. In a music video (which Wall conceived, directed, produced and choreographed) for the acoustic cover of “This Is Me” from The Greatest Showman, broadway star Shoshana Bean sings as Wall performs a […]

What's Next for "SYTYCD" Winner Lex Ishimoto?

After 13 seasons, “So You Think You Can Dance” viewers probably thought they’d seen it all. From “Ramalama (Bang Bang)” to Bollywood, Travis Wall to tWitch, it seemed like there couldn’t possibly be any room left on Mary Murphy’s Hot Tamale Train. Then came 19-year-old Lex Ishimoto. When Lex showed up at the show’s Season […]

The Brave Ballerina

Odds are, the first time you saw Alys Shee, she was doing fouettés. There’s a now-famous YouTube clip of her nailing dozens of them, peppering the string with musical triples and doubles. Oh, and that video was taken when Alys was 13. Yup: At an age when most dancers are still adjusting to pointe shoes, […]

The Spitfire

Photography by Erin Baiano New Complexions Contemporary Ballet dancer Samantha Figgins is a showstopper. During the company’s recent Joyce season in NYC, she wowed critics and audiences alike with her impeccable technique, emotional intensity and ability to layer a hip-hop sensibility on top of classical training. She bopped through Camille A. Brown’s hip-hop piece Memories […]