Daniel Dolan answers a few quickfire questions we threw his way. Most of them anyway!…
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Quickfire Questions: Daniel Dolan
Posted on November 18, 2013
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As soon as Daniel Dolan graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow, the British media swooped in. “What next?” everyone wanted to know.…
Mckayla Maroney is probably one of the most well-known athletes today. She was widely already admired by the gymternet for her technically impressive vaulting skills and seemed practically assured of the vault gold at London, no mean feat given the unpredictability of gymnastics. But she crashed out on her second vault at the London Olympics – and so the story goes, ended up catapulting to fame, thanks to the infamous Not Impressed meme. But there is much to be impressed…
10-year-old Jasmine Cruz put up a very impressive showing at the YAGP regionals in San Francisco this May, performing a charming interpretation of a variation from Harlequinade – on pointe.…
We referred to ABC’s Bunheads as the little dance show that could. Until it turned out that it couldn’t anymore. We were genuinely upset when ABC decided to terminate what we considered to be one of the best shows to emerge on the small screen in a long while. And never has there been a show that utilized dance in such a unique and effective manner.…
Lithe and luminous, Patricia Zhou is known in the dance circles as the talented young lady who began her formal ballet training at 13.Even so, a stint at the Kirov Academy of Ballet’s summer program soon led to her sucessfully auditioning to be a full-time student. You would be hard-pressed to tell that she wasn’t born a bunhead when watching videos of her dancing. But it took hard work, dedication and many extra classes for Patricia to harness her innate…
There seems to be an unwritten rule in gymnastics that in order to use Assassin’s Tango as your floor music, you must be able to perform the hell out of it.…
This 30 minute documentary by Russia Today offers insight into the punishing world of that is Russian ballet.…
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Watch This: Maria Kochetkova & Daniil Simkin – when they were young(er)
Posted on September 23, 2013
Daniil and Masha were already blowing balletomane’s minds 5 years ago, as this gorgeous pas de deux from the ’09 World Ballet Festival clearly shows.…
Following our interview with her, Dena Kaplan graciously answered a few fun quickfire questions we threw her way. Thanks, Dena! ♡…
In our inaugural interview, Dena Kaplan, one of the stars of hit TV series Dance Academy and NBC’s Camp, talks to us about overcoming adversity, sisterhood and her quest for an Olympic body, and spills the beans on who was the best kisser on Dance Academy.…
