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Timing is everything for Melissa Toogood, the dean and director of Juilliard’s dance division. Toogood tells Dance Teacher that accountability to timing, yet the flexibility and adaptability to make creative choices, are important qualities she emphasizes with dancers—and something she’s on the lookout for when auditioning prospective students. “Are they making choices about how they’re […]
Germany-based choreographer and dancer Nick Palmquist is tall. He’s 6′ 3″, so he knows his choreography is going to look different on other (probably shorter) dancers’ bodies. “When [other dancers] hold on to [movement] longer, it becomes more sentimental, whereas I have to hit things a little harder because I’m a taller person, so it might […]
Ask a hundred people what musicality is, and you’re likely to get a hundred different answers. “Musicality is where an artist’s personality shines brightest,” says Smuin Contemporary Ballet member Ben Needham-Wood. For American Ballet Theatre soloist Skylar Brandt, “it’s what distinguishes one dancer from another. It helps me express myself more vividly and emotionally.” Teachers […]
Ask anyone at the University of Southern California’s Glorya Kaufman School of Dance how they feel about assistant professor of practice, d. Sabela grimes, and they automatically begin to sing his praises. Not only is he one of the department’s most beloved and dynamic educators, he is among the most respected and innovative facilitators of […]
