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Pacific Northwest Ballet goes through roughly 2,000 pairs of pointe shoes per year. New York City Ballet uses 500 pairs per month during Nutcracker season. Some pros exhaust multiple pairs [...]

Shoes hold a sacred place in a dancer's life. From the first time you rise over the box of fresh pointe shoes, hear the clack of metal taps on the [...]

In the dance world, there has long been a culture that encourages pushing beyond pain limits, with many professionals performing despite small (or even large) injuries. The show must go [...]

Many dancers marry within the industry, finding common ground through similar triumphs and struggles, and sometimes even sharing the stage together. But there's also something special about building a life [...]

When creating competition routines, the health and safety of young dancers should be a top priority. Definitions of 'age-appropriate' choreography vary widely across the competitive-dance scene. It takes a concerted [...]

Touring with a major recording artist is at the top of most commercial dancers' bucket lists. What could be more exciting than getting paid to dance, travel the world and [...]

More than two years afterthe initial COVID-19 lockdowns, performances are getting back up to full speed, and from company work to concert tours to Broadway, dancers are once again leaving [...]

Most young ballet dancers assume that company life is the only professional career worth pursuing--but there's more than one path to success. We got the inside scoop on indie work [...]

Postgrad training programs have long held an important, if complicated, place in the dance industry. At their best, these experiences for young adults on the cusp of their careers--like ballet [...]

As productions fought to stay onstage as the Omicron variant surged this winter, a spotlight shone on the true heroes of Broadway: swings and understudies. For the first time, mainstream [...]

It was the late '90s, and breaking pioneer Ana 'Rokafella' Garcia was in rehearsals for a major theater production with a crew of male breakers. A popular b-boy began making [...]

A New York City subway car in the dead of summer 2005 was an unlikely setting for Britt Stewart to launch her career. But soon-to-be Emmy Award-winning choreographer Bonnie Story [...]

Long hours of sweat, caked makeup and stress can leave a dancer's skin feeling out of control. Here, five professional dancers share the routines that have kept their faces glowing [...]

After 11 years of dancing on world tours, award shows, film and television, Britt Stewart was ready for a new challenge. Fate was on the same page. While in rehearsal [...]

Dancing requires a certain amount of physical risk-taking. Here's how to manage your fears to become a daredevil mover. When former MOMIX dancer Rebecca Rasmussen was cast in 'Dreamcatcher'--a duet [...]

Keone and Mari Madrid sit around their kitchen table--a la quarantine--their fingertips brushing the surface, tapping to hidden dynamics of a Ben Sollee track as they weave in and out [...]

After 45 minutes of technique at Center Stage Performing Arts Studio in Orem, Utah, class is cut 15 minutes short, and the senior company dancers are told to grab their [...]

More Than Just a Dance Photographer Jacob Jonas is a true polymath: not only an artistic director, choreographer, teacher and dancer, but a photographer, filmmaker, producer and curator, as well. [...]

Want to give your studio style an extra bit of oomph? Take out that eternally slicked bun and spice up your rehearsal with head-turning hair. To help you brainstorm your [...]

Watching Circa Contemporary Circus is a nail-biting experience. The acrobats climb the limbs of their fellow cast members, fly through the air without wires or ropes, and create human architecture [...]

At 19 years old, Complexions Contemporary Ballet's Christian Burse commands the stage with expansive and exacting movement beyond her years. In Dwight Rhoden's recent Endgame, she uses her classical sensibility [...]

It's audition season, and dance schools are touring the country seeking talent for summer programs. For many students, it's a first-ever audition opportunity, and the stakes can feel extremely high. [...]

Inside a bustling television studio in Los Angeles, Lindsay Arnold Cusick hears the words 'Five minutes to showtime.' While dancers and celebrities covered head to toe in sequins whirl around [...]

In all of their swollen and blistered glory, feet are dancers' prized possessions. It doesn't matter whether you treasure your arches, wince at your bunions or wish you could trade [...]

When I was a student, a teacher told me the story of a dancer whose bodice broke mid-performance, exposing her breasts to the audience. 'She didn't let it stop her,' [...]

Let's face it: In the U.S., government support for the arts is severely limited. Most dance companies rely on donations to stay afloat. According to Smuin Contemporary Ballet development director [...]

The article delves into the dancer's intimate relationship with her shoes, emphasizing how they are an extension of her body and play a crucial role in defining her artistry. She discusses the significance of finding the right pointe shoes, the meticulous care she takes to maintain them, and the meditative aspect of sewing. The dancer reflects on the importance of tap shoes in shaping her sound, describing the challenges of breaking in new pairs and the creative solutions.

At 6:30 am on a brisk day in September 2018, Christina Kotsopoulos found herself standing in an open-call audition line for Wicked on Broadway--wholly unprepared for what was about to [...]

There's something uniquely crushing about summer intensive rejection. Perhaps it's because it's the first time many students have ever experienced this kind of rebuff. Or perhaps it's simply hard to [...]

Tania Dimbelolo hit most people's radar when an Instagram video of her improvising a solo, within a work by Jamaal Burkmar, went viral. Her movement is a swirl of conflicting [...]

It happens in every corner of the industry: Despite artistic staff's adoration of an auditioning dancer, that performer doesn't get the job. Whether it's due to limited contracts or specific [...]

These days, virtual auditions are our new reality. While summer intensive veterans may have polished their in-person audition strategy over the years, Zoom is an entirely different animal. How should [...]

The article focuses on choreographers creating dance routines for A-list celebrities which requires a different set of skills and more time than working with professional dancers. Topics include three leading industry choreographers share their experiences on what it's really like to create dances for A-listers such as uncovering strengths, adaptability, time management, and navigating tricky situations that come with celebrity casting.

Dancers have left major cities to escape the coronavirus. Will that change the landscape of the industry long-term? It's clear that COVID-19 has grossly impacted every facet of American life, [...]

For generations, dancers have been thrust into professional life at a young age without much preparation or tools, sinking or swimming on their limited industry know-how. Today, some independent programs [...]

Looking to get a leg up at your next big audition? Eat well! Dietary decisions ca make the difference between an energized performance and a sluggish one, but knowing exactly [...]

The article examines the significant gender gap in leadership roles within the dance competition and convention industry. It highlights leaders like Sandra Coyte, Sonia Pennington, Victoria Scherzer, and Shari Tomasiello who share their experiences with the challenges of gender bias and the importance of representation; and emphasize that women bring valuable perspectives and are change agents, sensitive to issues like body image and sexualization.

In an industry with strict physique expectations, Colleen Werner is forging an alternate path--an adult dance experience that celebrates body diversity. While studying to become a clinical mental health counselor [...]

There are a lot of opinions out there regarding skin care--and it can get totally overwhelming. To make sense of all the noise, we asked board-certified dermatologist Dr. Claire Chang [...]

FOR MANY, attending dance conventions is the cherry on top of their training--the boost that takes them from talented dancer to bonafide artist. But it's not just the dance classes [...]

It had been 10 years since Leigh-Ann Esty had sung (barring some legendary karaoke nights) when she was cast as Rosalia in Jerome Robbins' West Side Story Suite at Miami [...]

For dancers with a strictly concert background, making the transition into TV and film can feel like stepping into the unknown. The heightened speed of the rehearsals, everchanging structure of [...]

To Keely Garfield, there's little difference between supporting those who suffer and connecting with audiences through dance--both walk the same path of human empathy. Lauded for her delightfully unpredictable dance [...]

The article discusses about the different self-care strategies for a post-pandemic world with specific focus to dancers. Topics including comments from Connor Holloway, American Ballet Theatre on work during pandemic, what problems the actresses faced post pandemic at work, and speaking of the strategies they implied in their life and how it helped them.

Urban dancer Selene Haro has the kind of star power that can carry a show. It's not so much that she commands the stage, but that she warmly invites the [...]

It felt like something out of a movie. One week before our studio's yearly benefit concert, my dance friends and I stood awkwardly at a local high school party when [...]

My relationship with dance has been an ever-shifting thing. I grew up in Birmingham, England, to Irish parents, and dance was wrapped up in my second-generation Irish identity. In the [...]

When you're bouncing between hotel rooms without access to a kitchen, eating a pescatarian diet can be challenging. So Stephanie Mincone, who most recently traveled the globe with Taylor Swift's [...]

If you're looking for your first Broadway contract, getting your foot in the door is tricky. Auditions are structured to prioritize members of the Actors' Equity Association, the union for [...]

The article reports that professional dancers share the routines that keep their faces glowing such as Candy Tong; India Bradley and Omar Rivéra. Topics include examines that Tong starts her regimen by washing her face with CeraVe that is a product that works for her sensitive skin and to remove makeup, she uses Neutrogena oil-free eye makeup remover.