Sometimes dancing with a prop can get you in trouble, but Jakob & Ashleigh in So You Think You Can Dance’s sixth season made it look easy in this jazz number set to Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s “Relax.”
Truly one of the most spectacular dances I’ve ever seen live is the “Simply Irresistible” sequence from the 2000 Susan Stroman dance musical Contact. The three stories that make up Contact are all excellent, but this particular piece sizzles with excitement. I’ve shown it before, but it’s worth seeing again as part of this dancing [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day! One of the most romantic dances out there is the waltz and for Valentine’s Day I wanted to find a waltz I’d never seen before to sweep me away. Here’s a groegous one from the Australia version of So You Think You Can Dance. Enjoy!
I just saw these photos of Joan Collins from the recent Red Dress fashion show (FYI: it’s Fashion Week here in NYC). If you looks up FIERCE in the dictionary, you’ll likely find these pictures. At 76 (yes,seriously!) Joan is Workin’ It Out! Oh, there were other celebs there too, as if anyone noticed.
Alvin Ailey created “Cry” in 1971 as a birthday present to his mother. He dedicated it to “all black women everywhere — especially our mothers.” The three-part ballet depicts a woman’s journey through the agonies of slavery to an ecstatic state of grace. While all three parts are great, it’s part one that moves me [...]
“Getting through life is the hardest part of living, letting go and movin’ on.” — George W. Faison, choreographer of “Movin’ On” Ailey II began in 1974 as the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble when Alvin Ailey initiated a workshop composed of the most promising scholarship students from The Ailey School. Ailey II continues to be [...]
One of Alvin Ailey’s masterworks is “Revelations,” which is now comprised of three sections had 15 when originally presented in 1960. By 1962, the piece was locked into what we see today. “Revelations” tells the story of African-American faith and tenacity from slavery to freedom through a suite of dances set to spirituals and blues [...]
