Showcasing her unique style of Irish dance with one of the world’s biggest pop stars is a fitting career high for Kaitlyn Sardin. In recent years, the technically accomplished Irish dancer, who was part of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” cohort in 2024, has carved out her own lane through social media, blending hard shoe Irish dance with hip hop, Afrobeat, vogue, and other styles. Performing with Beyoncé on the Cowboy Carter Tour—a genre-pushing project that blended country, Americana, and folk music—was the perfect fit for a dancer who thrives exploring the in-between.

It’s been 20 years since I stood in a windswept, desolate tract of land in the rugged Irish midlands watching choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan building a home for himself, near a space for his company, then known as Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, with his bare hands. “Some people like looking at icebergs, some people like looking […]

Electric performances, thought-provoking choreography, buzzy bodies of work—the artists on our annual list of dancers, choreographers, directors, and companies poised for a breakout share an uncanny knack for arresting attention. They’ve been turning heads while turning what’s expected—in a performance, from a career trajectory—on its head. We’re betting we’ll be seeing a lot more of them this year, and for many years to come.

Last dances, first-time collaborations, gatherings of disparate dancemakers—October’s dance card is full of intriguing events. Here are seven of the most enticing performances.

Libraries, rightly or not, are frequently designated in the public consciousness as places that are silent, stuffy and still. This has never really been the case when it comes to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Last Wednesday, as dance world luminaries and patrons alike gathered […]