Sasha Radetsky gave his final bow with the ABT last week. We have sadly never had the privilege of watching the ABT soloist tear it up on stage. But we’re glad that his dancing skills, youthful vim and valiant stab at acting will forever be immortalised what is only one of the GREATEST DANCE MOVIES EVER – yes we had to put that in capslock – Center Stage.…
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Ahhh, Swan Lake. The gift that gives on giving. First we .gif-ed it, now we’re remixing it. Here on Valentine’s Day is La Scala’s Swan Lake, starring Svetlana Zakharova and Roberto Bolle, and set to that most immortal and classic of tunes, Beyonce’s Single Ladies.…
It was supposed to be an innocuous question and answer session and a chance for sports fans to tap the brains of one of Britain’s most successful athletes, Beth Tweddle. Instead, Beth found herself the subject of some spiteful and misogynistic vitriol when she agreed to participate in a live twitter Q&A with Sky Sports – ranging from lewd comments to insults about her appearance. It is another disappointing reflection of the discrimination female athletes face – an issue that…
Miko Fogarty is a person of extremes. Extremely gifted. Extremely flexible. Extremely precise. Extremely popular. If ballet were a Mean Girls movie, Miko would be the girl who makes car commercials in Japan.…
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…
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.…
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.…