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“DWTS” Season 35 Premiere: We’re So Back
Happy mirror-ball season, readers! “Dancing with the Stars” has returned with a sparkly bang, complete with familiar faces, noteworthy firsts, a technical snafu, and a giant disco-ball banana. This...
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Platinum National Dance Competition Has Opportunities for All Dancers
Over the past 20 years, Platinum National Dance Competition has expanded into three primary event programs: Platinum National Dance Competition, Platinum Dance Collective, and Platinum Dance...
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Why Being a Dance Nerd Matters More Than You Think
At the 2026 New York City Dance Alliance Nationals in Phoenix, AZ, American Ballet Theatre Studio Company artistic director Sascha Radetsky addressed a ballroom full of teenage dancers as he taught...
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Catching Up With History-Making Comp Stars Ian Stegeman and Cameron Voorhees
What happens when you win Best Dancer at The Dance Awards’ Nationals in every age division? You make history. What about when two dancers do it, nearly in all the same years? Double history. That’s...
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From Stage to Spotify Charts: Why Comp Dancers Make Great Musicians
For many, dance is not the end-all and be-all, but rather a pipeline to creative freedom and exploration across industries—including music. This was abundantly clear in the late 1980s through the...
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Listen to Misty Copeland and Nia Sioux Exchange Voice Notes Courtesy of a New...
Imagine recording a humble voice note expressing your deepest admiration and gratitude for your biggest dance role model. Now imagine sending that voice note—and getting one in return with that role...
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Celebrity Trainer and Former Ballerina Candy Tong Writes a Letter to Her...
Ballerina, model, designer, educator, trainer: Candy Tong has done it all. Originally from San Francisco, Tong trained at San Francisco Ballet School and English National Ballet School before getting...
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How to Manage the Post-Convention Crash
Convention weekends—with their opportunities to learn from expert teachers and acquire new skills—are a highlight of the season for many dancers. But they can also leave participants feeling tired,...
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Comp Star Turned Commercial Dancer Ava Wagner Is Living in the Moment
Ava Wagner’s dance career seems almost predestined. “My grandma was stretching my feet the minute I was born,” she says. Her family’s connection to dance spans generations: her great-grandmother,...
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Why Can I Dream It but Not Do It? The Science Behind Dancing in Your Dreams
Picture this: You’re in class, onstage, or even in the supermarket aisle, and you’re dancing your heart out. You push off for a pirouette, and, suddenly, you’ve entered a never-ending loop of perfect...
View ArticleIntroducing: “Ask Dance Spirit”
Dearest readers, We want to know what’s on your mind! Introducing “Ask Dance Spirit,” a new bimonthly advice column where we answer your burning dance-related questions. Whether you’re wondering about...
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How Platinum National Dance Competition Bridges the Gap From the Competition...
When Chris Suchan aged out of the competition-dance scene after high school, he felt a bit lost. “There was no support system there,” he says. Eventually, he found work with cruise ships, jazz-based...
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Better Together: The Value of Making New Friends at Competitions
Ten years ago, at the World Dance Pageant in Secaucus, NJ, an 8-year-old Adriana Ciociano sat down during a break and began talking to the girl sitting next to her, Delaney Theodoropoulos. Over the...
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Spirit of Dance Awards, Where “Quality, Style, and Kindness” Reign
There are dance competitions that put on a great show, and then there are the ones that leave dancers feeling like family. Spirit of Dance Awards (SDA) has spent years doing both. It’s a family-run...
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Audrey Tovar-Dunster Rises to New Heights at Vail
American Ballet Theatre Studio Company dancer Audrey Tovar-Dunster performs with maturity and skill beyond her years, but not beyond her experiences. The 17-year-old, who began her training at the...
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What It Takes to Be the Next “DWTS” Pro, According to Mark Ballas
The dance floor is seriously heating up! “Dancing with the Stars” will welcome a new pro for Season 35, and this time, a new reality TV show is following a group of dancers as they duke it out for the...
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How Spoon Theory Saved My Dance Career
Navigating the dance space can be difficult for anyone, but doing it while having multiple disabilities—especially when you don’t know what they are—is a whole other ballpark. I’m Lucy Turner, a...
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Meet Payton Johnson, Freelance Dancer and Stager for Bobbi Jene Smith and Or...
Payton Johnson’s dancing is a tempest of opposites. In a solo in Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber’s Seven Scenes at Little Island in New York City last summer, she moved seamlessly between pinpoint...
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Fluid Dance Convention: A Competition With Live Feedback
Sarah Verville founded Fluid Dance Convention 20 years ago with the goal of creating a new kind of dance competition. In an industry flooded with flashy prizes, “I wanted something built on...
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Ballet Student Jessica Wang Makes Tiaras Her Business
When Jessica Wang was 14, she found herself in a position that many dancers find relatable: Dance felt like her whole identity. “When I introduced myself, the first thing I would say is that I’m a...
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