2,892 stories by "The Dance Enthusiast"
"Fashion/style is serious, so break the rules! Â Find your own personal style, and continue to cultivate it. Try new things! And never...never ever wear white tube socks and sandals togeth…
"Embruja was designed to transport us back to another century, when solo flamenco and ballet divas toured the globe with their pianists and melodrama was all the rage." Deirdre Towers, New Y…
"FJK Dance is excited to be back with 'Works in Progress' at 92nd Street Y on Tuesday, November 4, a follow up to our July New York Live Arts world premiere of Arabesque and Tango Un…
"While none of the three works feature a born-and-bred California choreographer, there’s a definite west coast vibe to the evening." Erin Bomboy, Brooklyn, NY.
"Don't wear a slutty Halloween costume unless it's really clever!" Reid Bartelme, Designer, New YorkÂ
"Dance on film persists, it will always persist. There is something absolutely unique about watching dancing bodies on screen." Debra Levine, Los Angeles.
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"For years, Barnett and his collaborator Tobias have explored singing as a springboard for choreography, in their search for 'the body within the voice,' " Deirdre Towers, New York, …
Happy 30th New York Dance and Performance Awards! The Dance Enthusiast was at The Apollo Theater to capture the stylish moves of our dancing friends and celebrities as we all celebrated …
"The dolls represent characters who could be there but they also represent missing characters...They look very much like 21st Century kids attending a Black Metal concert," says Gisèle Vien…
"BOOM! is not a black woman’s declarative manifesto about breast cancer survival, rather the work is an intimate, honest exploration of survival, reality, and questioning," Nia Austin …
"'In the studio I have my ‘All About Me’ hat on. Then I go home and I put on my ‘Never About Me’ hat, the hat you wear as a parent." Liz Gerring..
"For twenty-five years, Belloni has studied ancient sacred chants, drumming, and healing trance dances from Southern Italy. She can carry any show, without the aid of a company..." Deirdre T…
"...Melnick turns around and is holding an unsheathed kitchen knife with which she calmly and coolly dances, it takes a moment for an audience member to feel the hairs on one's neck jump…
"The elegance of the man’s long fingers around his female partner’s body, the pressure against an imaginary surface that propelled him through space, caused my eyes to focus like…
"The annual 'Fall for Dance' Festival at City Center is a beloved New York institution. Low-cost tickets and a wide variety of dance troupes and styles guarantee a smorgasbord of mov…
"Meet one of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch's newest company members, Michigan native and Juilliard graduate Breanna O’Mara."
"One of the most important ways to reawaken the inner dance enthusiast is to get people talking to the artists - not in a huge, formal proscenium theater-Â but in a small setting, like a …
"They shatter the mannerisms and ethos of the Baroque period and reassemble these gilded fragments to forge something contemporary yet wholly reminiscent in Court/Garden." Erin Bomboy, New Y…
"Dance-wear strongly inspired the looks prancing down the Spring/Summer 2015 runways, and contrary to popular trends, tutus weren't the only silhouettes the designers noticed this season…
"I think in the beginning the challenge for me was to really feel like a ballet dancer since I didn’t grow up just doing ballet. I felt like an intruder, a jazz dancer trying to do bal…
"And dance is not my job. It’s my life. It’s who I am.” Alessandra Ferri.
"I always knew I would be a dancer. I always loved and connected with Tap the most – from growing up watching movie musicals with my Grandma to seeing Diane Walker and Jimmy Slyde on s…
Matthew Westerby, Colleen Thomas and Bill Young...Distinctly different visions come together in one show at Triskelion Arts.
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"Crawling on all floors, belly to the ground like a soldier, then spinning ferociously and leaping through, on, and over the newspapers, Wolcott creates numerous sculptural islands and canyo…
"The intimate West End Theatre is a perfect venue for dances laced with nuances and subtle shifts." Deirdre Towers, New York, NY.