Dance Articles & Advice
Our in-depth articles will guide you to become a better dancer. Enhance your career tips, discover health and fitness advice, and read interviews from dance professionals.
Why Self Advocacy is Crucial When Dealing With an Injury
Everyone will experience some type of injury in their lives. Dancers are even more prone to injury, due to the nature of the demands they put on their bodies. Even the best trained, physically fit dancers can experience dance injuries. Whether it’s years of wear and tear or the result of a...
Health & Fitness
Why Self Advocacy is Crucial When Dealing With an Injury
Everyone will experience some type of injury in their lives. Dancers are even more prone to injury, due to the nature of the demands they put on their...
Opinion
5 Signs Jazz Dance is Still Alive
In 2017, DanceTeacher published an article by Rachel Zar on what felt like a decrease in popularity for jazz as a dance genre. That same year, the enr...
Opinion
Broadway Musicals On Stage vs. Film: How Do They Compare?
Hello all! Keats here, as usual, with some thoughts on our industry. If you’re like me, and have other human friends and social media, you’ve probably...
Reviews
Historic Modern Dance Joins Current Works in LA Dance Project Festival
Modern dance isn’t modern anymore. Audiences last weekend could see just how far we’ve come in 50 years as current works in the performance art and co...
Spotlight
The Ballerina Who Found New Opportunities In the World of Ballroom Dance
How does a ballerina maintain a twenty-one-year career in competitive exhibition ballroom dance at the top of her class, producing wins in one of the...
Professional Tips, Motivational
5 Benefits of Continuing to Show Up To Your Dance Auditions
We’ve all been there: that feeling of dread the morning of an audition you have been planning to attend since it posted. You have already chosen what...
Opinion
Is Dance a Sport or Art form? It's Not As Controversial As You Think
There is no doubt that dancers are athletic. The sheer physical demand it takes to be a dancer is immeasurable and ever-changing. There is no doubt th...
Professional Tips
Soar Above Your Teacher's Expectations With Good Class Etiquette
Let's talk about the one thing that you are taught in class, other than dancing, which is a key stepping stone to your career: proper dance class etiq...
Reviews
L.A. Dance Project Festival Turns Up the Heat on Collaboration
Benjamin Millepied has always said his Los Angeles Dance Project was not going to be a one choreographer kind of company. While he has continued makin...