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My Dance Company Closed. What's Next?
Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, many dancers are facing company closures or layoffs. Before the pandemic hit, Dance Spirit had the chance to speak with Laura Osterhaus, who was a full-time dancer with the...
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Picture This: How Visualization Can Up Your Dance Game
You're standing onstage at the opening of the Jennifer Lopez–Shakira Super Bowl halftime show, holding your opening pose, waiting for the music to start. You can see a smudge of dirt on your white...
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These Dance Comps and Conventions Are Coming to a Living Room Near You
While dancers all over the world are sharing the heartache of canceled classes, shows, and projects, our hearts hurt especially hard for a group of dancers we at Dance Spirit couldn't admire more:...
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The Space Between: Being Gender-Nonconforming in the Dance World
The dance community is famous for supporting its own. Take the way we rallied behind Prince George after television anchor Lara Spencer mocked him for studying "BAH-lay," or how competition dancers...
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Stay Creative with These 5 Improv Exercises You Can Do at Home
If social distancing has you feeling unusually restless right now (cabin fever is REAL), a good improvisation session could be the dance remedy you need. Improv, which is the simultaneous creation and...
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How Do You Stay Performance-Ready When You're Stuck at Home?
Dancers are nothing if not disciplined. As soon as studios started shutting their doors, so many online classes began popping up that it became nearly impossible to keep track of them all. But is...
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#SocialDisDancing: A Look at Lucy Vallely's At-Home Dance Life
From the most famous choreographers to the newest of dance newbies, we're all going through the same pandemic-related struggles right now. So, how are the pros coping with it all? To find out, we've...
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6 Top Dancers' Favorite Recipes to Inspire You in the Kitchen
You've been working hard to keep up with your dance training during this period of uncertainty and isolation. Still, your days are probably not as full as they used to be. Many professional dancers...
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Tiler Peck's Top 10 Tips for Training at Home
On March 15, New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck announced to her 172,000-plus Instagram followers that she'd be teaching a live class from her family's home in Bakersfield, California, where...
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Dear Katie: Will I Ever Be Good Enough to Make It As a Dancer?
In our "Dear Katie" series, Miami City Ballet soloist Kathryn Morgan answers your pressing dance questions. Have something you want to ask Katie? Email dearkatie@dancespirit.com for a chance to be...
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The Dance Student's Guide to Making the Best—and the Most—of At-Home Training
If you're social distancing to do your part to slow the spread of COVID-19, you've inevitably realized that training safely and successfully at home poses a significant challenge. We talked to dance...
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How Choreographer Will Loftis Finds Inspiration
As a choreographer, Will Loftis has touched almost every part of the dance industry. He's worked on television, from "So You Think You Can Dance" to "The World's Best" to "The Voice," and he served as...
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What It's Like to Attend a Virtual Dance Convention
During this new era of social distancing, the dance world has gotten pretty creative. Tons of teachers, studios, competitions, and conventions have stepped up to the plate to help fill our living...
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It’s OK to Grieve: Coping with the Emotional Toll of Canceled Dance Events
Grace Campbell was supposed to be onstage this week. Selected for the Kansas City Ballet School's invitation-only Kansas City Youth Ballet, her performance was meant to be the highlight of her senior...
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Watch Juilliard's Fourth-Year Dancers in Their Last Major Performance Together
Oh, dancing class of 2020: our hearts go out to you. Senior year is supposed to be thrilling, and full of happy "last" memories. But just because this final year turned out differently than...
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Your New Fave Music Video Is Brought to You by Kaycee Rice, Sean Lew, and...
One unexpected upside to the coronavirus crisis is that we seem to be seeing more dance content on the web than ever before—online classes, Instagram Lives, virtual conventions—the list goes on and...
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Quibi's "The Sauce" Is Your New Dance Show Obsession
Looking for something new to watch while socially distancing? Check out "The Sauce," a traveling dance competition show that dropped today as part of the new streaming service Quibi. Produced and...
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#SocialDisDancing: A Look at Rockette Taylor Shimko's At-Home Dance Life
From the most famous choreographers to the newest of dance newbies, we're all going through the same pandemic-related struggles right now. So, how are the pros coping with it all? To find out, we've...
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How Mark Kanemura—Artist, Activist, and All-Around Icon—Became Our Internet...
Twelve years ago, a baby-faced Mark Kanemura appeared on "So You Think You Can Dance" Season 4. The Hawaiian-born dancer—whose winningly quirky style found a perfect vehicle in Sonya Tayeh's...
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#SocialDisDancing: A Look at the Arnold Sisters' At-Home Dance Life
From the most famous choreographers to the newest of dance newbies, we're all going through the same pandemic-related struggles right now. So, how are the pros coping with it all? To find out, we've...
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