Tag: mistakes

Dance Team Captains Share Their Biggest Successes and Mistakes

Serving as captain of your dance team is a great opportunity. But it’s an opportunity that comes with responsibilities and requires choices, which means mistakes are inevitable. Dance Spirit asked three high school team captains about their successes and missteps. Alyssa Gernert (middle row, second from left) with her fellow Post Falls High School Dance […]

4 Mistakes Dancers Make When Picking Summer Intensives

You’ve completed your summer intensive auditions and received your acceptance letters. Congrats! Now, it’s time to choose where you’ll be spending this vital training time. While it’s easy to select the program with the biggest name, or head to the school where all your friends are going, it might not always be the best choice […]

10 Costume Mishaps All Dancers Suffer From

Costumes: We look amazing in them but, boy, sometimes they’re the actual worst. Whether they don’t fit correctly or they rip right before a performance, here are 10 wardrobe malfunctions all dancers unfortunately suffer through at one point or another. When Your Costume Arrives But Is a Size Too Small  The worst is when this […]

The Show Must Go On: Dealing with Onstage Mishaps

Earlier this year, Ashley Green and Michael Hall—senior dancers at Columbia City Jazz in Lexington, SC—were performing their duet, Redemption, at a 24 Seven Regionals competition. It’d already been a long day, and they were tired. Near the end of their performance, disaster struck: Michael’s leg gave out during a lift and both dancers ended […]

Don't Make Me Repeat Myself

It’s not easy being a competition judge. These dedicated dance lovers sit on a panel for hours at a time, carefully analyzing every move onstage. Sure, it’s a rewarding job—they get to see so much incredible talent—but it can also be frustrating making the same comments all weekend long. So what are these judges tired […]

That Time I Face-Planted Onstage: 7 Pros' Most Embarrassing Mishaps

All of us—even the dance world’s biggest stars—have had less-than-awesome performance moments. We asked seven professionals to share their most embarrassing mishaps. Samuels Smith with the cast of Imagine Tap! in “Samurai Shuffle,” the number that landed him in the emergency room. (photo by Michael Brosilow) Jason Samuels Smith Tap dancer I once played a […]

You're Doing It Wrong: Mistakes You Don't Realize You're Making

Writing down her corrections in a journal helped Kaitlyn Jenkins (here on “Bunheads”) fix her arabesque for good. (ABC Family/Randy Holmes) There are two words no dance hopeful wants to hear: “rookie mistake.” Even if you have fierce fouettés and super-pointy feet, there are still some universal no-no’s to avoid if you want to hear […]