Tag: olympics

These 5 Olympics Sports Have a Lot in Common with Dance

Tokyo 2020 may have just wrapped up, but we’re still not completely over the hype…and might already be excited for the next Olympic chapter. Breakdancing is hitting the Olympics stage in Paris 2024, marking the first time that dance has explicitly been part of the world’s biggest sporting event. In a way, though, dance has […]

We Want Pizza Dancing in the Closing Ceremonies

The Olympics are always full of inspiring Cinderella stories, where athletes no one had heard of mere months ago end up blowing all expectations out of the water, and maybe even nabbing a medal in the bargain. But we’ve recently caught wind of a different kind of Cinderella story—and it’s one we really, really hope […]

#TB to Sasha Cohen, a Ballerina on the Ice

There are plenty of current Olympic figure skaters who’d make beautiful dancers (first among them Adam Rippon, whose gorgeously choreographed long program won the internet, if not the gold). But today, as we wait for the women’s figure skating competition to crown its new champions, we wanted to throw it back to one of the […]

Reason #9475096 Why Everyone Should Dance: It Makes You a Better Athlete

You and I both know that dancing is the best thing since chocolate chip cookies! But its always nice when dance gets the recognition it deserves from non–dance-world peeps. That’s why we did our own happy dance when we saw Shape magazine’s article on how dancing can actually make you a better athlete. The piece […]

We Love the Olympics, But It's Missing One Sport

To say we’re pumped for the Winter Olympics is a definite understatement. We love watching cold-weather sports like bobsledding (Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme!), the terrifying-but-exhilarating art of ski jumping, figure skating (perhaps the most dance-centric event) and even more obscure options like curling. But that’s not the say the Olympics aren’t lacking in […]

Guess Who Choreographed Skater Adam Rippon's Jaw-Dropping Olympic Debut?

We love, love, LOVE figure skaters who completely embrace the dance aspect of the sport, putting real time and thought into their choreography and music choices (while also, you know, casually pulling off death-defying jumps). This Olympics, a lot of attention has (rightly) been focused on frontrunner Nathan Chen, whose ballet background lends him a […]

This Former Ballet Kid Is Heading To The Olympics—And Is Expected To Win

One of the United States’ top hopes for medaling at the Olympics this month has a secret weapon: a serious ballet background. Figure skating champion Nathan Chen spent six years training at Ballet West as a kid. “The technique there was impeccable,” the 18-year-old said in a media teleconference last week. “To have had that […]

This Olympic Skater Loves "La La Land" As Much As We Do

Have you ever desperately wanted to do your competition solo to that music? You know, the song that gives you goosebumps in the best way possible, sends your dancer’s heart soaring—and for those same reasons is pretty much guaranteed to be used by a million other comp kids? 3-time US national champion figure skater Ashley […]