Police offers are sworn to protect and serve their local communities—we all know that. What we didn’t know until earlier this week, when a very particular kind of #LipSyncChallenge video started to crowd our newsfeeds, was that a few of these hardworking law-enforcement officials have some serious moves! The trend started at the end of […]
Dance in movies is a trend as old as time. Movies like The Red Shoes and Singin’ in the Rain paved the way for Black Swan and La La Land; dancing stars like Gene Kelly and Ginger Rogers led the way for Channing Tatum and Julianne Hough. Lucky for us, some of Hollywood’s most incredible […]
The year 2011 was filled with show-stopping onstage moments and exciting offstage drama. Whether you were captivated by New York City Ballet star Sara Mearns’ 32 fouettés in Swan Lake or danced along in your seat as Sutton Foster led the Broadway cast of Anything Goes through a series of time steps, there’s no doubt […]
Whether you’re a musical theater buff or someone who lives for the Step Up franchise, you have to admit that dance movie scenes are often (all too) representative of real life. Here are five of our favorite scenes that, despite being silly and/or fantastical, somehow manage to reflect how we feel. 1. Did you just […]
Is it Friday yet? WOMP. If you, like us, are suffering from a severe case of the Mondays, we’ve got a little something to ease your pain (or at least distract you from whatever productive thing you “should” be doing). You know we love a good dance-in-movies supercut, and today, we’re sharing perhaps the most […]
Dance Spirit‘s January cover girl, Sophia Lucia, on the red carpet before the Dance Awards in NYC (photo via @sophialucia5678) Chock full of utterly amazing dance talent, silly jokes and wild choreography, the 2014 Dance Awards closed out its NYC event last night at the Hammerstein Ballroom. The three-and-a-half-hour celebration really had it all—from spectacular […]
First things first: We love Jimmy Fallon. This TV show host has proven himself a worthy friend of dance. Since taking over the “Tonight Show” in February, he’s brought us such dance-tastic segments as “The Evolution of Hip-Hop Dancing” with Will Smith and the “three-legged pants dance” with Cameron Diaz. I mean…the man has a […]
Why is it that short weeks always feel the longest? If, like me, you’ve woken up each of the past three days thinking it was Friday, never fear, my friends: I have a video that will snap you right out of your funk. What is this magical film, you ask? It’s a supercut of all […]