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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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The 3 Best Exercises to Help Dancers Prevent Knee Injuries
When it comes to injury-prone body parts, knees reign supreme for dancers. But a little strengthening can go a long way in preventing painful outcomes. We turned to Dirk Hartog, a physical therapist...
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"SYTYCD" Season 16 Recap: The Auditions Continue
It's usually right around the third or fourth week of "So You Think You Can Dance" audition rounds that we start itching for the live shows. Sure, the auditions are fun, inspiring, and entertaining,...
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Breaking Gets One Step Closer to the 2024 Olympics
Is dance a sport? Should it be in the Olympics? They're complicated questions that tend to spark heated debate. But many dance fans will be excited to hear that breaking (please don't call it...
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Why You Should Know Elegant Danseur Darrion Sellman
At age 15, Darrion Sellman already possesses the traits that make his idols—The Royal Ballet's Steven McRae and American Ballet Theatre's David Hallberg—such world-class dancers. Darrion has McRae's...
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Taylor Sieve on Dance Crushes and Her Celeb Doppelgänger
Pretty much the entire world fell for Taylor Sieve's gorgeously fluid contemporary stylings during Season 14 of "So You Think You Can Dance." By that point, Sieve, who ultimately earned third place on...
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"Moulin Rouge! The Musical" Can-Can-Cans Its Way to Broadway
Few new musicals get rave reviews from The New York Times during their pre-Broadway runs, when they're still working out their kinks. But Moulin Rouge!, based on the 2001 movie of the same name,...
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Let's Take a Moment to Appreciate the Truly Wacky Dancing on "The Bachelorette"
If you're a proud citizen of Bachelor Nation, you know that as nail-biting as the rose ceremonies can get, the real fun happens in the post-credits scenes. The clips ABC shows at the tail end of each...
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A Week in the Life of an American Dancer at Tokyo Disneyland
In her Instagram bio, Rachel Jacobucci describes herself as a "professional dancer/world wanderer," and that couldn't be truer. After training at The Governor's School for the Arts in Norfolk, VA, and...
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Tim Milgram's New Dance Studio Aims to Break Class Video Stereotypes
The dancers-slay-choreo-while-onlookers-cheer class video is pretty popular these days. And if you've watched a viral class video within the past 24 hours, there's a good chance it was filmed by Tim...
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Here’s the Absolute Best of #TheGitUpChallenge
What has us feeling patriotic this Fourth of July week? #TheGitUpChallenge. Because only in the US of A could a country-meets-trap song inspire a viral dance craze. Bless you, Blanco Brown. Bless you,...
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Why Every Dancer Should Add Acting to Their Performance Toolbox
All dancers, from Broadway performers to avant-garde artists, are storytellers. The minute they start moving, they begin to convey character, emotion, and plot—even if they're performing an ostensibly...
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The New Netflix Dance Movie “Work It” Will Star Jordan Fisher
We've had our fingers crossed about the Netflix film Work It ever since we first got wind of the project. Produced by Alicia Keys, the movie—which follows a teen whose admission to her dream college...
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How Learning Lighting Design Made this Dancer a Better Choreographer
When Sophie Sotsky moved to NYC in 2011, she was fresh out of college and hoping to sustain herself as a dancer and choreographer in the big city. That's when a production internship at New York Live...
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The 6 Best Things About Dance Competition Nationals
You've clocked in hours of practice, rounded up every single bobby pin you could find, and told friends "I can't, I have dance" so many times you might as well write it on your forehead. But the...
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