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Catching Up With Cover Model Search Finalist Kayla Mak
We're thrilled for our Cover Model Search winner, Iyanna Jackson—but we also love our two runners-up, Kayla Mak and Reed Henry! We talked to Kayla about how life has changed since the last time we...
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Catching Up With Cover Model Search Finalist Reed Henry
We're elated for our Cover Model Search winner, Iyanna Jackson—but we also love our two runners-up, Kayla Mak and Reed Henry! We chatted with Reed about what’s new since the last time we spoke to...
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6 Ways to Make the Most of Your Winter Break
Happy holidays! If you’re not performing in The Nutcracker, these few weeks off of school and normal dance classes are likely a welcome intermission in the middle of a very busy year. Dance Spirit has...
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Meredith Aleigha Wells Is Breaking Boundaries This Holiday Season
Chicago-based dancer, actor, singer and writer Meredith Aleigha Wells dreamed of a career in the arts from a young age, and landed at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, to pursue that dream. It...
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Omarion Burke is Your December Cover Model Search Editors' Choice Winner
Congratulations to Omarion Burke, our December Cover Model Search Editors' Choice video winner and 2022 CMS semi-finalist! Watch his solo below, and be sure to enter the Cover Model Search here....
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Here Are the 2022 YoungArts Winners in Dance
A massive congratulations to the 21 promising dance artists who've been named YoungArts winners for 2022! These dancers—all between the ages of 15 and 18 and/or in grades 10 through 12—were selected...
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How to Stay Grounded in High-Pressure Dance Environments
Picture it: You’re 12 years old, and your mom just dropped you off at your latest dance convention (one of six this year, including Nationals). The ballroom you’ll be dancing in is roughly 65,000...
View ArticleFrom Classical to Commercial
You’re a total bunhead. Whether you live for Swan Lake or worship Jirí Kylián, you can’t imagine life without your pink tights. Except—at the back of your mind—you’ve always wondered about the...
View ArticleHeel Appeal
Dying to dance with Beyoncé, Katy Perry, Usher, Lady Gaga or almost any other big name? Be prepared to strap on some sky-high heels and still kill the choreography, which could include anything from...
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Lasting Impressions
Canadian Dance Company performs a memorable routine at Showstopper’s East Coast Finals. (Photo Courtesy Canadian Dance Company) Think fouettés are the key to a judge’s heart? Think again. While judges...
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Get Reel
L.A.-based Haylee Roderick has been strutting her stuff on the commercial scene, dancing everywhere from “Glee” to the Academy Awards, for a while. But despite having an agent and killer talent, she...
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Here's How 3 Dancers Make #FreelanceLife Work
More and more frequently, dancers are embracing their entrepreneurial spirit and eschewing the stability of a company paycheck for the creative freedom of freelance life. Some have been in full-time...
View Article8 K-pop Bands with Serious Dance Skills
K-pop is in the middle of a stateside takeover. South Korea’s boy bands and girl groups can always be counted on to produce catchy, upbeat songs—and, most importantly for us dance fans, to feature...
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Taylor Swift's New Video is Dancy Pastel Perfection
“We promise that you’ll never find another [music video] like thi-i-IS!” Sorry not sorry, because all of us Swifties at Dance Spirit have waited a long year and a half for new T-Swift music—which,...
View ArticleWe're Giving You A Million Reasons to See Lady Gaga's Vegas Residency
Calling all Little Monsters! Fresh off her Oscar win for Best Original Song, Lady Gaga will head back to the Park Theater in Las Vegas this May. She’ll perform her Enigma show, as well as her...
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Broadway Performer Tanairi Vazquez on What It’s Really Like to Dance in a...
When Tanairi Vazquez was cast in her very first Super Bowl commercial, she had no idea that she would be the star, or that Dolly Parton would be involved. But Vazquez was one of several dancers...
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Go Behind the Scenes of Olivia Rodrigo’s SOUR Prom Video
What is a high school prom, if not bittersweet? If you’re Olivia Rodrigo, the whole event can turn downright sour. After releasing music videos for “drivers license,” “deja vu” and “good 4 u,” Rodrigo...
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Amanda-May Wilson on Magical Mentors and Navigating Intersectionality in the...
Like most of us, Amanda-May Wilson grew up dancing for fun all the time. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, most of her dancing was done through sneaking into the rehearsals of her childhood church...
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“Maisel” Choreographer Marguerite Derricks on Season 4
After much anticipation, Season 4 of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” has hit Amazon Prime just in time to fill the hole left in our streaming hearts after finishing Season 2 of “Cheer”…and watching...
View ArticleWhat Inspires Dance Inspiration Jose “Hollywood” Ramos
Five years ago, Jose “Hollywood” Ramos reminded us to celebrate our individuality. And when we asked what his life motto was, he said “follow your dreams and keep being positive.” Well, we can tell...
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