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40 of the Best Movie Dance Scenes of All Time
Look, there are endless "best movie dance scenes" roundups out there. But our list is different. While we have nothing but love for the gloriously awkward dance moments in films like Napoleon Dynamite...
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How Madison Brown Rose to the Top of Both the Ballet AND Contemporary Worlds
Imagine attending American Ballet Theatre's prestigious NYC summer intensive, training among classical ballet legends. Imagine taking the stage at New York City Dance Alliance Nationals, competing...
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Watch Travis Wall Crush a Pom Combo with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders
I almost can't handle the level of full-out fabulousness coming out of Pride Month (just kidding, please keep it coming). Today, Travis Wall blessed our feeds with this clip of him dancing with the...
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2019 Cover Model Search Finalist Darriel Johnakin
Click here to vote for Darriel.There are a million and one ways to describe the versatile Darriel Johnakin, but "rare breed" is a good place to start. In fact, it's the first phrase Marie-Louise...
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2019 Cover Model Search Finalist Diego Pasillas
Click here to vote for Diego.There are some dancers who impress in easy-to-articulate ways: They've got the extension, they've got the feet, they've got the technique. Then there are dancers like...
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2019 Cover Model Search Finalist Emma Sutherland
Click here to vote for Emma.There's a story Kate Walker, director of dance at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, TX, loves to tell about Emma Sutherland,...
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Vote for Your Favorite in Our Cover Model Search Contest!
Congratulations to Dance Spirit's 2019 Cover Model Search finalists: Darriel Johnakin, Diego Pasillas, and Emma Sutherland! One of them will win a spot on Dance Spirit's Fall 2019 cover. Learn more...
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This Corbin Bleu Interview Will Lift Your Post-Tonys Depression
If you're a hardcore Broadway baby, today is the worst Sunday of the year. Why, you ask? The Tony Awards were last Sunday, so basically there's nothing to look forward to in life anymore—no James...
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Here’s the First Official Photo of the New “West Side Story” Movie Cast
Steven Spielberg's much-anticipated remake of West Side Story—choreographed by Justin Peck, and starring a bevy of very good dancers—is in production, hooray! And that means it's finally time for us...
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The 2019-2020 Competition & Convention Guide
All the essentials for 54 of the best events this season. COMPETITIONSAct 1 TalentDirector: Katie Rustowicz909-360-3455info@act1talent.comact1talent.comAge Divisions: Preview (Beginner), First Act...
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"SYTYCD" Season 16 Recap: The Promise of a Powerful Episode
In many teasers, FOX promised this would be a "powerful" episode of "So You Think You Can Dance." We have to admit that we didn't take that super seriously. We assumed it just meant we'd get one or...
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Hip-Hop Phenoms Les Twins Are the Real Stars of "MIB: International"
When Men in Black: International hit theaters this weekend, audiences expected, and got, a fantastically fun reboot of the '90s sci-fi movie franchise. What they may not have expected was a literally...
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The Try Guys’ Eugene Lee Yang Comes Out as Gay in This Powerful Dance Video
Would that we could all live in Taylor Swift's Pride-topia, booty-popping with Todrick Hall and sharing Sno-Cones with Adam Rippon in our rainbow-flag-bedecked RV park. But much as we're loving "You...
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Dear Katie: Help! I Can't Hold My Turnout!
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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Watch Adelaide and Red’s Previously Unreleased Full Dance Sequence from “Us”
[Light spoilers for Us ahead.] Jordan Peele's bonkers/genius horror film Us uses dance in a terrifyingly effective way: Peele intercuts the big final fight scene with snippets of teenage Adelaide and...
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ABT Principal Isabella Boylston Writes a Letter to Her Teenage Self
Beloved by ballet fans for her lucid technique and onstage effervescence, by her Instagram followers for the deftly curated photos and videos she shares of her glamorous life, and by fangirl Jennifer...
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WilldaBeast Brings the Groove in This Mercedes-Benz Ad
WilldaBeast and…a car? They may be unusual duet partners, but this new ad proves they're a pretty sweet match.Dancing around all sides of a Mercedes-Benz, William "WilldaBeast" Adams shows off his...
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The Case For Staying with Studio Training
It's an increasingly common scenario: A talented dancer wins big at a competition, is offered an assistantship with a famous faculty member, and ends up leaving her hometown studio to travel with a...
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How Meditation Can Help and Heal Dancers
Dancers are naturally "in their heads" all the time—but not always in productive ways. Long days of receiving and applying corrections, taking class, and performing can get to even the most composed...
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Watch James Whiteside Work the Thom Browne Runway in a Tutu and Pointe Shoes
Say you're perpetually impeccable designer Thom Browne. Say you're planning your Spring 2020 Paris menswear show along a "Versailles country club" theme. Say you want a world-class danseur to open the...
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