Tag: mentor

College Dancers, Climb Aboard the SS Mentor-ship

You might be surprised to hear that both Seán Curran, chair of the dance department at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and Jodie Gates, the director of the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, still have mentors. After all, they’re both leading educators at two of the country’s most prestigious […]

College Dancers: Here's Why You Need Peer-to-Peer Mentoring

Nigel Campbell wants to let you in on a secret: College is finishing school. “You’re meeting the people you’ll know for the rest of your artistic life,” explains the co-director of the Gibney Dance Company. “You never know if the person next to you at the barre will be the next director of a big […]

Kathryn McCormick Writes a Letter to Her Teenage Self

Kathryn McCormick first won our hearts with her captivating contemporary moves and girl-next-door relatability on Season 6 of “So You Think You Can Dance,” where she made it to the top three. Since then, she’s returned for seven more seasons as an All Star and, last summer, gave viewers all the feels when she mentored […]

Janelle Ginestra in #BeastMode

If you’ve ever seen a Janelle Ginestra class video, you know how lit her combos are. What you don’t see in those clips is how devoted Ginestra is to her students. We went behind the scenes at one of her sold-out IMMA SPACE classes to see Ginestra in her element, mentoring some of L.A.’s most […]