Dance Articles & Advice
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Get Out of the Class Trap: 6 Ways to Improve Your Dancing
If you’re a freelance dancer without the structure and routine of college classes or a company season, it may feel as if the only way to keep training or improving is to take open classes and workshops. In big cities like Los Angeles and New York, these classes are aplenty, with many working...
Education & Training
Get Out of the Class Trap: 6 Ways to Improve Your Dancing
If you’re a freelance dancer without the structure and routine of college classes or a company season, it may feel as if the only way to keep training...
Spotlight
Surviving the Paradise Fire: The Power of Dance to Heal
Surviving the Fire: A conversation with a dancer who almost lost everything. I knew my house was gone. I just never thought it would take the whole t...
Professional Tips
Is Working on a Cruise Ship as Luxurious as It Sounds?
Part 1: Anchors Aweigh! If it has always been your dream to dance on a cruise ship, it’s high time to find out if a job with a cruise line is actual...
Professional Tips, Education & Training, Spotlight
How These 3 Professionals Break-In Their Pointe Shoes
Growing up as a dancer, I was always mesmerized by pointe shoes and couldn’t wait to get my feet into a pair of them. It wasn’t until I actually got t...
Reviews
"The Last Ship" Is Sting’s Ode to His Tyneside Roots
The Last Ship, Sting’s moving paean to his upbringing in England’s North East now playing at the Ahmanson Theater has finally come into its own in a n...
Opinion
What To Do When Your Core Values Conflict with a Job
We’ve all been there: training tirelessly in class and working hard at auditions in hopes of getting that one “yes” for a job or opening a door to tha...
Professional Tips
An Exciting Dance Hub Is On The Rise: Orlando Theme Parks
New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago… most professional hopefuls immediately flock to popular “dance cities” after saying goodbye to their hometowns. T...
Professional Tips, Opinion
5 New Year’s Resolutions I’m Making as a Commercial Dancer
At the end of the year, commercial dancers like myself are probably dancing in a myriad of holiday-themed gigs, theme park shows, or Vegas parties, bu...
Spotlight
How an Immigrant Choreographer Built His Way to the Emmys
For an immigrant to create a career in the United States this not only takes leaping the hemisphere, traveling a few thousand miles, and saving for th...
