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Joy Isabella Brown On Staying Inspired and the Benefits of a Non-Traditional...
When Joy Isabella Brown moved to L.A. at 15, she was unfamiliar with dance—but she did discover martial arts tricking. After a few years of honing that movement practice, she met choreographer Jacob...
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The Dancer’s Guide to Getting Through the Holidays
"The disappointment hits in waves," Calista Jones says of this year's canceled production of The Nutcracker. A high school senior who performs with the Appalachian Ballet Company in Maryville, TN,...
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Here's Your 2021 Dance Horoscope
2020 has been a time. So if you're like us, you're getting excited (and hopeful) about what 2021 might bring. What better way to look to the future than to look to the stars? That's right, your...
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80 Thoughts I Had Rewatching "Barbie in the Nutcracker" as an Adult
One Christmas, my older brother and I got into an old-fashioned sibling argument because I wanted to see our local ballet company perform The Nutcracker . My brother argued that he couldn't follow the...
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5 Young Dancers Doing Good in 2020
You may know—or have seen on social media—that International Human Rights Day is in December. But did you know December is also Universal Human Rights Month? Communities all over the world designate...
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Jamal Josef's Children’s Book Encourages Boys of Color to Embrace Dance
Many young men face some sort of pushback when they decide they want to become a dancer. This rings true disproportionately more for Black boys—and was particularly true for dancer, choreographer, and...
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Robert Green Writes a Letter to His Teenage Self
You may know him from the Top 10 on "So You Think You Can Dance" Season 14. You might have caught him touring the world with Taylor Swift. Or you might remember his viral video from 2015, where he...
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20 of Our Favorite 2020 TikToks
In a year that has been especially tough on the dance world, TikTok has been a welcome distraction. The app, in all its dance-y, super-woke, and, often, delightfully cringe-y (ahem,...
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The Dancer's Guide to Competing on a Budget
It's no secret that competition dance is expensive. Like, really expensive. Add in a global pandemic that has left millions of Americans unemployed and it can seem downright outrageous. Still, dancers...
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Why You Should Know Hip-Hop Headliner Aliyah Rose Maese
Whether she's tearing it up in class or shining on the small screen in Disney Channel's "Disney Fam Jam," Aliyah Rose Maese is a high-octane bundle of spunk who was born to dance. No, really: Only a...
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Here's How 3 Top Collegiate Dance Teams Are Weathering the Pandemic
The dance team life is practically defined by togetherness: on the court, in the stadium, at team-bonding events and in rehearsal after rehearsal. So how are America's collegiate dance teams even able...
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Charlee Fagan is Your December Cover Model Search Editors' Choice Winner
Congratulations to the December Cover Model Search Editors' Choice video winner, Charlee Fagan! Watch her solo below, and be sure to enter the Cover Model Search here.Charlee Fagan, "Valis" Your...
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The Dancer's Guide to Creating Change in Your College Dance Department
Dance Spirit has highlighted college dance programs committed to dismantling white supremacy. But what if you arrive at your dream dance school to find that Western dance forms are at the center of...
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The Dos and Don'ts of Partnering
Few things are as nerve-racking as partnering class, especially when you're a newbie. No matter the genre, the stakes feel high—and the potential for awkwardness feels unlimited. How do you avoid...
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Join Us for a Q&A With ABT's Gabe Stone Shayer on January 21
Gabe Stone Shayer, American Ballet Theatre's newest soloist, has long been a standout onstage. But the 27-year-old dancer—the first African-American male to graduate from Russia's Bolshoi Ballet...
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How Broadway Dancer Cory Lingner Perfected the TikTok Duet
With #SocialDisDancing still very much in place, it's a challenge for dance partners to perform safely, and even harder to perform safely together.But Broadway's Cory Lingner may have found the...
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Congrats to Our 2021 Cover Model Search Semifinalists!
Each and every month in 2020, we Dance Spirit editors selected a 2021 Cover Model Search semifinalist. And as 2020 came to a close (and we truly thought it never would), we selected our December...
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4 Dance Works Honoring the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Social justice has a been a prominent theme in many Black American dancemakers' repertoires. Today, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day—and in the midst of ongoing social and political turmoil in...
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How Dance Helped Me Achieve Success in My Nondance Career Path
Like most kids, by the age of 4 I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up…a dancer. And sure, every kid picks a career to play along with—doctor, veterinarian, princess. But from that young...
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How Dancers Can Beat Zoom Fatigue
Now that we're more than nine months into the pandemic, there's a big chance you're feeling Zoom-ed out. Read: Totally overusing the video-conferencing app for school and dance classes—and everything...
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