Tag: shuffle along

16 Quick Questions With Karissa Royster

Talented tapper Karissa Royster made her Broadway debut this past spring in Shuffle Along, shining in Savion Glover’s stylized, 1920s-inspired choreography. Royster trained at Dance Plus in San Antonio, TX, studying ballet, jazz, modern and rhythm tap, before joining RPM Youth Tap Ensemble under the direction of Barbara Phillips. Since then, she’s performed at dance […]

Dance Spirit's Annual Jazz Hand Awards

It’s back! Welcome to the second annual Jazz Hand Awards—aka “The Jazzies”—where we honor the latest, greatest and danciest shows currently gracing the Great White Way. The Jazzie for the Most Jaw-Dropping Acrobatics Goes to… Paramour An acro award for a show produced by Cirque du Soleil? Well, that’s a given. But the way Cirque’s […]