Audrey Lynn, a member of Kansas City Ballet’s second company, attended summer intensives at American Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Kaatsbaan Ballet Intensive, the School of American Ballet, and the Harid Conservatory before starting her professional career. Being from North Carolina and traveling to these programs by plane, she became proficient in packing for up […]

Festivals, revivals, premieres, tours—the weather might be chilly, but performance calendars are anything but this January.

What’s next? Our annual list of dancers, choreographers and companies on the verge of breaking through offers several answers to the question of where our field is headed. We’re betting we’ll be seeing—and hearing—more from these 25 artists not just this year, but for many more to come.

Samar Haddad King lives in Palestine but regularly choreographs on dancers in New York City for her company Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre. While technology has helped her bridge an ocean, she has also found it useful when checkpoints and road closures make travel between Israel and Palestine difficult—if not impossible—for her local company members. Choreographing […]

In the ballet world, the phrase “going to college” is sometimes regarded as the musings of a dancer who’s not really serious about their craft. Although schools like Juilliard and Bennington College have made degrees acceptable for modern dancers for decades, the competitive ballet world (which often follows a philosophy of “the younger the better”) […]

The dance artists to keep an eye on in 2017