The Moulin Rouge has hosted famed dance shows inFrancefor over 120 years. Its iconic chorus line of the high energy can-can, however provocative and skirt-lifting, shows off impeccable technique mixed with personality and physical demand. Popularized with its 2001 Nicole Kidman/ Ewan McGregor American blockbuster, the cultural institution continues to seek performers to grace the[…]

  Once in a while – on a surprisingly irregular basis – you meet someone who blows your impression of them off the chart with either their talent, their portfolio of actual executed work, and/ or their ambition and its vividness. Sometimes, they have all three. And usually when that happens, they’re dancers. They not[…]

There’s a new kid in town, Kelowna. Move on over in the name of coalition, amalgamation, and junction because fusing it all together in one spot of a studio, ready or not here it comes, it is Fusion Dance Academy – the Okanagan’s latest in dance studios.   Now on the scene literally as of[…]

Your father may tell you he wants “absolutely nothing” – that may mean he just wants everyone to leave him alone so he can grill and chill in peace; fine. But if it’s something interesting you’re wanting to gift dad this time around here are a few ideas.     1) Orlebar Brown Deckchairs Anniversary[…]

With 12 Tony nominations including Best Musical, little Miss Matilda is proving it pays off when talented kids are given opportunity to facilitate their gifts. Sometimes the foresight of what you’re supposed to be “when you grow up” comes fast and thus acting on it by equipping young ones with the chance at a big[…]

Manhattan premieres IN CREASES, choreographed by Justin Peck of the New York City Ballet! Music by Philip Glass, energy jumps from dancer to dancer with heated fuel as he proclaims the experience is just as much for the dancer as it is for the audience. This unparalelled presentation by one of the foremost dance companies,[…]

See us dance; move with us; learn about us. See/move/learn – the three word label belongs to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago – their dancing left as responsible for saying the rest. Going into its 36th season, Hubbard Street continues to be Chicago’s international destination for dance however, their hometown of Chicago isn’t the only place to catch the[…]

They say the neon lights are always bright on it and that there’s always magic in the air. That magic feeling heats up around this time of year now that the Tony Awards are 27 days away – the American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards airing on CBS live at 8/7 Central and back where they[…]

Up first are the Brooklynettes. Out on the court tonight at the BarcaysCenterin Brooklyn, New York, this barely-a-year-old squad was fashioned after the move from New Jerseywhere their team, the Nets hail from. Clad in material the New York Postso cutely called “stretch leatherette,” basically everything is spandex tight and either sparkly or striped. The girls are[…]

  Unable to get over how superb of a show Pippin actually was, I felt the need to drive home the fact that, if you are in town or will be in the upcoming while, you MUST go see Pippin on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in New York City.   Over the years,[…]

The Gehry may have jazzed up New York City’s skyline with its spiral swank of a residential building onSpruce Street. But visions for the talked-about Performing Arts center at the Ground Zero site may be unforeseeable until 2017. Originally under design with a hope of creating a destination holding the title International Dance Center –[…]

I’m sure we all love Dancing with the Stars – ABC network’s top dance show and quite an entertaining dose of a mixture combining both talented professional ballroom dancers and celebrities all love to oogle at. This season, you can even follow the front-row blog with ex-dwts Melissa Rycroft (the girl from the Bachelor!) as[…]

Returning from a trip to Indonesia to take in the ceremonial Balinese New Year, the ancient form of dance proudly expressed surrounding these celebrated times presents an awareness of the value dance holds in culture, tradition, and the understanding of each other around the world. Dance as a language translates through visual movement and is[…]

  It’s amazing and it’s time; Pippin is back on Broadway! A dream of dance brainwashed Fosse style, this Broadway musical is legendary in the eyes of Musical Theatre-driven character dancers who bring an intensity and passion, structure and style to the world – completely elemental in dance perfection brought to existence.   Music by[…]

Check out this great youtube dance vid! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWsvAnDGS8U