Kaylin Maggard Is Your 2017 Cover Model Search Winner!
All of 18-year-old Kaylin Maggard's dreams—from scoring the title of National Senior Outstanding Dancer at New York City Dance Alliance Nationals to winning the 2017 Dance Spirit Cover Model...
View ArticleChoreographer Amy Seiwert Shares What Inspires Her
Amy Seiwart is an important voice for contemporary ballet. Since 1999, her company Amy Seiwert's Imagery has been showing San Francisco audiences just how experimental, passionate, and relevant ballet...
View ArticleGalen Hooks Hopes Her New Dance Film Will Make People See Dancers in a Whole...
You know Galen Hooks as the choreographer who creates the stellar dance moves for dozens of viral videos, and the dancer who's performed for everyone fromthe Biebs to Rihanna. But now she's gearing up...
View ArticleWe Are LIVING for This Video of Yanis Marshall on the Runway at Fashion Week
Stop. Everything. And. Watch. This. Now. The insanely fabulous Yanis Marshall was recruited to open Marco Marco Underwear's runway show at New York Fashion Week. (OF COURSE HE WAS.) His opening...
View ArticleCatching Up with Cover Model Search Finalist Haley Hartsfield
We're thrilled for our Cover Model Search winner Kaylin Maggard—but we also love our two runners-up, Haley Hartsfield and Michelle Quiner! We talked to Haley about how life has changed since her NYC...
View ArticleCatching Up with Cover Model Search Finalist Michelle Quiner
We're thrilled for our Cover Model Search winner Kaylin Maggard—but we also love our two runners-up, Haley Hartsfield and Michelle Quiner! We talked to Michelle about how life has changed since her...
View ArticleWhen Top Choreographers Make Touchdown Dances...
...Everybody wins! The Wall Street Journal recently recruited three of our favorite choreographers to create touchdown dances for NFL stars (because why the heck not), and the results are straight-up...
View Article"Dance Moms" Darling Ava Cota Slays on the Runway at New York Fashion Week
You probably know Ava Cota as the lovely, leggy dancer who was rejected from the Abby Lee Dance Company, on "Dance Moms," because she was "too tall." Now, that lanky frame is propelling her career as...
View ArticleWe Would Not Mind PRETTYMUCH At All
Last month, we gave you a sneak peek into the world of PRETTYMUCH, the boy band that's been called the next One Direction—in no small part thanks to their killer dance moves. Now, we have definitive...
View ArticleFrom Competitions to Campus: How 4 Comp Stars Made the Leap
Considering a dance degree to build on your competition experiences? DS caught up with comp-circuit stars who chose higher ed to learn the advantages of transitioning from comp kid to college kid....
View ArticleYou Should Know 14-Year-Old Commercial Queen Kennadi Boese
Fourteen-year-old Kennadi Boese is a teenage dance superhero. For one thing, she's successfully living a double life. One day, she's studying dance and going to school in Colorado like a normal...
View ArticleKaycee Rice Is Taking Over Our Instagram Story!
If you're deep in the Monday Blues, we've got just the thing for you: a Kaycee Rice Instagram takeover, with lots of special guests. This past weekend, Kaycee (and Willdabeast, Tricia Miranda, Gabe De...
View Article"So You Think You Can Dance" Recap: The One Before the Finale
Koine. Kiki. Lex. Taylor. Welcome to the fight to the finale! On last night's show—the last one before the last one—the Top 4 performed roughly one million times, including an opening number, a group...
View Article"DWTS" Week 1 Recap: Dancing in [an ABC Studio Version of] the Street
It's fall! The leaves are changing, everything everywhere is pumpkin-spice flavored—and "Dancing with the Stars" is back on the air. For the 25th time. Season TWENTY-FIVE, y'all: Here we go. To get us...
View ArticleJ.Crew's Dancey New Ad Is Pure Joy
J.Crew's putting a whole new spin on its brand —literally. The popular clothing line's inspired ad campaign has a group of cute male models showing off their best moves in a series of playful dance...
View ArticleLindsay Arnold Gets Real About Embarrassing "Dancing with the Stars" Moments...
"Dancing with the Stars" pro Lindsay Arnold has become a mainstay on the hit show—this fall marks her ninth season! America has fallen in love with her larger-than-life stage presence and vivacious...
View ArticleReese Hatala and Phoenix Lil' Mini Are Too Adorable (and LIT) for Words in...
What happens when Willdabeast Adams gets two of his most amazing lilBEASTS—the pint-sized Reese Hatala and Phoenix Lil' Mini , aka LULAS ("Love U Like A Sister")—to make a video set to a throwback...
View ArticleWhat It's Really Like to Dance with the ABT Studio Company
For an aspiring ballerina, there's no more exciting place to be than the ABT Studio Company, the pre-professional arm of American Ballet Theatre. The NYC-based troupe of 16- to 20-year-old dancers...
View ArticleThis Duet for Two Gorgeous Royal Ballet Ballerinas Will Mesmerize You
Think about it: How often do you see a ballet pas de deux for two women? Almost never, right? Sometimes, choreographers will forgo the traditional danseur-ballerina pas to make a duet for two guys,...
View ArticlePain Pointers: How to Tell Good Pain from Bad Pain
Physical discomfort is inevitable when you're spending tons of hours in the studio every day, but some pain shouldn't be suffered through. "Dancing through pain can make an injury worse and lead to...
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