Chicago-based choreographer Amirah Sackett and her all-female hip-hop troupe We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic are challenging perceptions of Muslim women. Check out this awe-inspiring group. Don’t miss a single issue of Dance Teacher.
More than 250 dancers from NYC’s PMT Dance Studio crowded into the “TODAY” show plaza in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, September 9. The task at hand: set the Guinness World Record for largest street-dance performance. The rules: At least 250 dancers had to dance a choreographed routine continuously for five minutes. Choreographed and rehearsed by […]
Before they bust a move, Villaver Daquioag signs to her son that she loves to dance. Need a midweek boost? Commercial dancer Mark Villaver, who has performed with Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande, clearly learned a ton from his mother. In this video, the pair performs an upbeat mother-son hip-hop duet, and we also learn […]
Congratulations to Mikey Castro, the latest Editors’ Choice for the Dance Teacher Video of the Month! Castro maintains an online presence by regularly uploading choreography and classroom routines to his YouTube channel. For this video, Castro created a full dance music video with students from the competition team On The Verge at Elevated Dance Project […]
Gregg Russell teaching at a workshop in Jackson, MS Our Dance Teacher Summit is less than two weeks away! Check out this interview with Gregg Russell, then catch him in class next weekend: As b-boying gained popularity in the early 1980s, Gregg Russell was a child, training in tap and, later, jazz. He picked up […]
Lil Buck is basically unstoppable. The street dancer guested last week with New York City Ballet in the premiere of visual artist JR’s Les Bosquets and is featured in the May issue of VOGUE. The magazine released this artsy, single-angle video of Buck doing what he does best: mesmerizing, physics-defying Memphis jookin. He looks like he’s on an ice […]
Congratulations to Cristian Faxola, the latest Editors’ Choice winner for the Dance Teacher Video of the Month! Your browser does not support the video tag. In a living room lit warmly by a single dome-shaped lamp, a lean, compact dancer pops, locks and glides his way over shining wood floors to the soulful R&B of […]
Seen & Heard At the Dance Teacher Summit Gregg Russell teaching at a workshop in Jackson, MS As b-boying gained popularity in the early 1980s, Gregg Russell was a child, training in tap and, later, jazz. He picked up a few breaking moves from friends and TV, but just for fun, he says. That attitude […]
When hip-hop choreographer Micaya took stock of the performance options for Bay area hip-hop dancers in the 1990s, she felt far from satisfied—and so she did something about it. Her International San Francisco Hip Hop DanceFest, the first festival dedicated specifically to hip hop, had its inaugural year in 1999. “I had seen the artistry,” […]
They’ve experienced amputation, birth defects, deafness and cancer, but the b-boys of ILL-Abilities are good. Really good. Hailing from Canada, Chile, Holland and the U.S., they’re as talented a hip-hop crew as any of their able-bodied peers in the biz, yet the ILL dancers (taking the “dis” out of “disability”) have chosen to highlight their […]