by Kyra Laubacher | Jul 26, 2020 | News, The Latest
Updated 8/13/2020 Picture this: Tiler Peck, Isabella Boylston and Roman Mejia performing in your living room. From July 31 to August 7, tune in as the Vail Dance Festival premieres its new digital edition in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time, the...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jul 14, 2020 | Profiles, The Latest, Viral Videos
Have you ever wished you could pull back the curtain and watch some of our country’s most beloved ballerinas being coached? With the coronavirus pandemic keeping theaters closed for the foreseeable future, NYCC has moved its popular Studio 5...
by Marissa DeSantis | May 4, 2020 | Dance Spirit, News, The Latest
There are do-it-all dancers, and then there’s Tiler Peck. The New York City Ballet principal is also known for designing dancewear with Body Wrappers, curating (and dancing in) the BalletNOW series at The Music Center in Los Angeles, and teaching daily Instagram...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 31, 2020 | Dance Spirit, Profiles, Training, Wellness
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 she’s currently waiting out COVID-19. Little did she...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 15, 2020 | Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Dance Teacher, News, Training
Updated March 20, 2020 One of the hardest parts of hunkering down to prevent the spread of COVID-19 is giving up our daily routines. And for dancers, that means class. Last week we shared a number of online teaching platforms (including Miami City Ballet principal...
by Amanda Sherwin For Dance Spirit | Sep 9, 2019 | News
Dancers breaking world records before they’ve even had their morning coffee? Shouldn’t surprise you, considering our next-level enthusiasm for absolutely anything that has to do with dance. And that’s exactly the feat 300+ dancers—myself...
by Courtney Escoyne For Dance Magazine | May 15, 2019 | Profiles
“New York City Ballet star appears in a Keanu Reeves action movie” is not a sentence we ever thought we’d write. But moviegoers seeing John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum will be treated to two scenes featuring soloist Unity Phelan dancing choreography...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 25, 2018 | News
In 1948, George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein founded New York City Ballet at New York City Center. This year, in honor of its 75th anniversary, City Center is bringing together eight companies—American Ballet Theatre, The Joffrey Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet,...