Unity Phelan “City.ballet.” is back! And the Season 2 premiere is plenty tantalizing. They promised us more up-close input from dancers, and we’ve already got two very interesting characters to follow. We meet two corps members, starting with 19-year-old Unity Phelan, who is beginning her first season with New York City Ballet. I really don’t […]
Congratulations to Derek Hough, who picked up the 2013 Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography on “Dancing with the Stars,” presented for the first time as part of the event’s live broadcast! (Watch Hough’s acceptance here.) Also a first was the nominated choreographers’ collaborative effort to stage and perform the show’s main dance routine. The result […]
Derek Hough, Neil Patrick Harris, Napoleon and Tabitha D’umo, Sonya Tayeh, Travis Wall, Kathryn McCormick, and Mandy Moore and others, prepping for the Emmys It’s one small step for the Emmys, one grand jeté for the commercial dance world: This year, for the first time ever, the Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography will be presented […]
The Tony Awards must never let Neil Patrick Harris not host ever again. The four-time MC of Broadway’s Biggest Night sang, danced, rapped and did acrobatics, magic tricks and cheerleading stunts all in an opening number that made me want to shut off the TV right then and there because nothing could possibly top it. […]