You probably first saw Madeline Woo on social media. She popped to the forefront of the digital dance consciousness in the early 2020s, when clips of her in class at Royal Swedish Ballet went viral. Now with San Francisco Ballet, Woo is a forward-looking force in ballet: a celebrated principal who prioritizes being relatable, an exacting technician with a focus on individuality, and a multidimensional artist whose influence extends far beyond the stage.

Emma Portner came pretty close to becoming a scientist. That was a few years ago, when the contemporary wunderkind needed a break from the dance world and enrolled in an environmental science program.

If there was life before dance, I don’t remember it. My earliest memory is of watching my sister’s dance recital and seeing the children in the piece before hers dressed in bumblebee costumes. I knew then I had to start dance lessons so that I, too, could parade around in glorious black and yellow, and […]

In the September 1968 issue of Dance Magazine, we caught up with Erik Bruhn as he reflected on his first year as artistic director of the Royal Swedish Ballet. Throughout his career as a dancer, choreographer and director, Bruhn came to be heralded as one of the most poetic, expressive artists of his time. Rather […]

Bales of hay, black umbrellas, bicycles—this Midsummer Night’s Dream would be unrecognizable to the Bard. Alexander Ekman’s full-length, inspired by Scandinavian solstice traditions and set to music by Mikael Karlsson, is a madcap celebration of the longest day of the year, when the veil between our world and that of the supernatural is said to […]