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#SocialDisDancing: A Look at Lucy Vallely's At-Home Dance Life
From the most famous choreographers to the newest of dance newbies, we're all going through the same pandemic-related struggles right now. So, how are the pros coping with it all? To find out, we've...
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6 Top Dancers' Favorite Recipes to Inspire You in the Kitchen
You've been working hard to keep up with your dance training during this period of uncertainty and isolation. Still, your days are probably not as full as they used to be. Many professional dancers...
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Dear Katie: Will I Ever Be Good Enough to Make It As a Dancer?
In our "Dear Katie" series, Miami City Ballet soloist Kathryn Morgan answers your pressing dance questions. Have something you want to ask Katie? Email dearkatie@dancespirit.com for a chance to be...
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Tiler Peck's Top 10 Tips for Training at Home
On March 15, New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck announced to her 172,000-plus Instagram followers that she'd be teaching a live class from her family's home in Bakersfield, California, where...
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The Dance Student's Guide to Making the Best—and the Most—of At-Home Training
If you're social distancing to do your part to slow the spread of COVID-19, you've inevitably realized that training safely and successfully at home poses a significant challenge. We talked to dance...
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How Choreographer Will Loftis Finds Inspiration
As a choreographer, Will Loftis has touched almost every part of the dance industry. He's worked on television, from "So You Think You Can Dance" to "The World's Best" to "The Voice," and he served as...
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What It's Like to Attend a Virtual Dance Convention
During this new era of social distancing, the dance world has gotten pretty creative. Tons of teachers, studios, competitions, and conventions have stepped up to the plate to help fill our living...
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It’s OK to Grieve: Coping with the Emotional Toll of Canceled Dance Events
Grace Campbell was supposed to be onstage this week. Selected for the Kansas City Ballet School's invitation-only Kansas City Youth Ballet, her performance was meant to be the highlight of her senior...
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Watch Juilliard's Fourth-Year Dancers in Their Last Major Performance Together
Oh, dancing class of 2020: our hearts go out to you. Senior year is supposed to be thrilling, and full of happy "last" memories. But just because this final year turned out differently than...
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Your New Fave Music Video Is Brought to You by Kaycee Rice, Sean Lew, and...
One unexpected upside to the coronavirus crisis is that we seem to be seeing more dance content on the web than ever before—online classes, Instagram Lives, virtual conventions—the list goes on and...
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Quibi's "The Sauce" Is Your New Dance Show Obsession
Looking for something new to watch while socially distancing? Check out "The Sauce," a traveling dance competition show that dropped today as part of the new streaming service Quibi. Produced and...
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#SocialDisDancing: A Look at Rockette Taylor Shimko's At-Home Dance Life
From the most famous choreographers to the newest of dance newbies, we're all going through the same pandemic-related struggles right now. So, how are the pros coping with it all? To find out, we've...
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How Mark Kanemura—Artist, Activist, and All-Around Icon—Became Our Internet...
Twelve years ago, a baby-faced Mark Kanemura appeared on "So You Think You Can Dance" Season 4. The Hawaiian-born dancer—whose winningly quirky style found a perfect vehicle in Sonya Tayeh's...
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#SocialDisDancing: A Look at the Arnold Sisters' At-Home Dance Life
From the most famous choreographers to the newest of dance newbies, we're all going through the same pandemic-related struggles right now. So, how are the pros coping with it all? To find out, we've...
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I'm a Broadway Dancer with COVID-19. Here's What it's Been Like.
Many in the dance community have been directly impacted by COVID-19. Paloma Garcia-Lee, a Broadway veteran who was performing in Moulin Rogue! until the Great White Way closed down, tested positive...
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Letter from a Ballet Teacher: How My Own Home Isolation as a Teenager...
As a ballet teacher adjusting to the startling new world we are living in with COVID-19, I keep thinking of my dance students and the worry they must feel adapting to this stressful situation. Being...
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These 10 Pets Can't Resist Joining Their Humans for At-Home Training
We're all spending a lot more time on social media these days, whether that means aimless scrolling, taking advantage of the plethora of class and workout options streamed direct to your living room,...
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How to Kick Your Mirror-Gazing Habit (Because There's No Better Time to Do It)
Editor's note: This article was originally published in Dance Spirit's Spring 2020 print issue, before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the dance world. But we hope you'll still find its advice...
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Get to Know Prima-to-Be Ava Arbuckle
Ava Arbuckle is a dancer to watch. At just 15, the Texas native has taken home top medals at Youth America Grand Prix and the ADC|IBC, and won the Grishko model search. In February, she was one of...
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A Definitive Roundup of Charli D'Amelio's Best Dance TikToks
15-year-old Charli D'Amelio is a TikTok icon, with almost 50 million followers. But between her blink-and-it's-sold-out merch and late night television appearances, it's easy to forget that D'Amelio...
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