Help your dancers improve their performance—and scores—with this advice from veteran competition faculty: Martha Nichols, Judy Rice and Suzi Taylor. Connect with your ensemble. Everyone can be dancing at the same time, but not necessarily together, because they don’t acknowledge each other. “Relax and have a good time,” says Martha Nichols of New York City […]
Chloé and Maud Arnold pose with NYCDAF Ambassador for the Arts, Debbie Allen. Last night, the NYC Dance Alliance Foundation awarded Debbie Allen the 2015 NYCDAF Ambassador for the Arts Award at the annual “Bright Lights Shining Stars” gala. Held at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, the event paid tribute to Allen […]
Seen & Heard At the Dance Teacher Summit Denise Wall Co-owner, Denise Wall’s Dance Energy Virginia Beach, VA 200 students At last summer’s Dance Teacher Summit, crowds of participants packed Denise Wall’s seminars on teaching alignment. The 2012 DT Lifetime Achievement Award–winner and 30-year studio owner certainly has a way of communicating technique to her […]
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 […]
Shaping Sound has announced their first national tour, starting May 18 in L.A. and making its way east. You may have seen their TV show, “All the Right Moves,” or noticed them on the cover of our sister publication Dance Spirit last spring. Travis Wall and fellow “So You Think You Can Dance” star Nick […]