When it comes to choosing music for class, Popin Pete has one rule: “It’s always going to be something groovy,” he says. That’s because he doesn’t want students to just hear the music—he wants them to feel it. “It’s a difference,” he says. “That’s on any level, whether emotionally or spiritually or physically. That’s what […]
There is perhaps no one else Skylar Brandt has disappointed more than her childhood piano teacher. “I knew by the age of 8 that I wanted to be a ballerina, but my parents insisted on having me try other activities, including piano,” she explains. “With my sense of musicality at a young age, my teacher […]
Dancing, whether it’s ballet, hip hop or ballroom, isn’t just movement in space. It’s also movement in time. For choreographer and performer Caleb Teicher, the timing is what makes the movement interesting. “When something is well expressed in relation to music, it can be more impactful than just movement on its own,” Teicher says. “We […]
“My mother first put me into dance classes because she would watch me hear music and literally try to become it,” says Kathryn Morgan, former soloist with New York City Ballet and Miami City Ballet. True to Balanchine’s famous adage, “See the music, hear the dance,” musicality was the cornerstone of Morgan’s training at the […]