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Engaging, passionate and full of ideas, Micaela Taylor has been dancing "since I was very very young. My mom saw I had talent and saw I had rhythm and put me in dance classes.” By [...]

Stefano Altamura's photos of the Whim W'Him dancers are so beautiful that I am always sorry more of them don't get out where more people can see them. So today's post is going devoted to [...]

Growing up in Toronto, Ontario, Ethan Colangelo says his first exposure to stage dance was “a performance of The Nutcracker or something.” When asked what attracted him to dance, he replies, “I think it was [...]

Jakevis Thomason says he has been dancing “forever.” He started at the tender age of 3 with a competitive dance school, Dianne's School of Dance, l in Greenville, SC, taking classes and competing with them [...]

As a young child in beautiful, bucolic Garden Valley, Idaho Nell Josephine took one single dance class from a visiting teacher. In the 4th grade her family moved to Boise and she began taking gymnastics [...]

“I’ve always wanted to dance, and I figured the only way to do it is to do it!” Mark Caserta said to VoyageDallas in 2018. It didn’t start out too well. As a small boy [...]

Tomorrow, September 18, 2021, dancer Jim Kent will perform for the last time in the theater with Whim W’Him,* the company he helped from its inception to shape.* At the very start, just before for [...]

Rena Butler exudes warmth, strength and boundless energy and ideas. She is direct, lithe as a cat and avidly curious about other people and places. Growing up, Rena’s was the only black family in their [...]

Sitting down to write this post, I realized that I had a wealth of material in hand—two websites, choreographer conversations, my notes from a studio rehearsal (dancers masked) and parts of two filming sessions (unmasked), [...]

They begin in a V. The dancers cluster together, bursting into individual flurries and back together, then wheel out across the room like a flock of birds. It's a striking sequence in a new work [...]