by Kyra Laubacher | Oct 31, 2025 | News, The Latest
Tiler Peck is pretty comfortable sharing her experiences as a ballet dancer. The New York City Ballet principal has posted plenty of day-in-the-life videos on her social media and recently authored an advice book, XO Ballerina Big Sis, for younger ballet students....
by Thomas Ford For Dance Spirit | Apr 1, 2024 | News, The Latest
You might remember Anthony Madu from a video that went viral in June 2020. Shared to millions on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) by celebrities like Viola Davis and Cynthia Erivo, the video captured an 11-year-old Madu dancing barefoot and in the rain on a...
by Kyra Laubacher | Dec 8, 2023 | News, The Latest
As a teenager in Mumbai, b-boy Manish Chauhan mastered the art of street dance. Inspired by a favorite Bollywood movie, he taught himself how to backflip. Then came spinning on his head, launching himself through the air, and harnessing gravity in myriad other ways....
by Stav Ziv for Dance Magazine | Mar 31, 2023 | News, The Latest
Paul Michael Bloodgood. Photo by Anne Marie Bloodgood, courtesy Bloodgood. No other ballet has shaped Paul Michael Bloodgood’s life as much as Light / The Holocaust & Humanity Project. He was a young dancer who’d recently joined Ballet Austin when...
by Lydia Murray | May 31, 2021 | The Latest
On June 4, dance into Pride Month with PBS’ premiere of American Masters’ Ballerina Boys, a documentary about the all-male comedic ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. The film follows the legendary troupe on tour in the Carolinas—a focal...
by Kyra Laubacher | Jul 22, 2020 | News, The Latest, Viral Videos
Starting this Sunday, July 26, watch as Pennsylvania Ballet II partners with students from the Philadelphia-based Overbrook School for the Blind in the new 50-minute documentary Live Out Loud. Directed by Glenn Holsten of FreshFly productions, the project features six...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 23, 2020 | News, Viral Videos
DANSEUR , the feature-length documentary released in 2018, explores the social stigmatization young men face in ballet. And after last summer’s “Good Morning America” scandal, and the #boysdancetoo movement that followed, the film’s message...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Apr 23, 2017 | Views
Iconic ballerina Wendy Whelan enjoyed a groundbreaking career, both in length and breadth. She danced with New York City Ballet for 30 years and has had more roles made for her than nearly any other ballerina. Despite her accomplishments, the last few years of her...