Seattle native Doug Fullington has built an international reputation for resurrecting and restaging classical ballets from the 19th century, including a 2011 Pacific Northwest Ballet production of Giselle, created in collaboration with Marian Smith, professor emerita of music at the University of Oregon, and PNB artistic director Peter Boal. Fullington and Boal are now set […]

Robert Battle might be best known for his role as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 2011 to 2023, but prior to stepping into that position, he was more widely known as a choreographer. Battle started creating works for the company he was performing with, Parsons Dance, in 1998, then launched […]

When Nadia Adame became artistic director of AXIS Dance Company in January 2022, it was more of a homecoming than a new start: Adame began her performance career with AXIS in 2000. Originally from Spain, she graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder, majoring in theater (she wasn’t accepted into the dance department due […]

I now work with some of the smartest, hardest-working, and most inspiring people I’ve ever known. Every Sunday morning at 9 am—which, as a former professional, is very early to be taking a ballet class—40 to 50 adult dancers come into Westside Ballet and start their pliés with me. Our median age is somewhere in the late 50s, and I have students from ages 14 to 85!

For 20 years, Molly Lynch has been the driving force behind the National Choreographers Initiative. A choreographer, an artistic director, and a professor in the dance department of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine, Lynch has cultivated a unique oppor­tunity for ballet-based choreographers from across the nation. At NCI’s annual event, artists are given freedom to create, explore, and refine their artistic ideas without pressure to complete a work.

It’s in dancing moments like this that the protagonists of Netflix’s wildly successful Regency­ romance adaptation fall in love and find their way to happiness. The man who crafted the steps and guided the actors through them is Jack Murphy, a London-based choreographer and movement director who has worked on all three seasons of “Bridgerton”—including the highly anticipated Season 3, which premieres in two parts on May 16 and June 13—as well as the “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story” spinoff.

When Hannah Corbin first joined Peloton, the brand was little more than a startup. An Alvin Ailey–trained dancer who specialized in aerial acro­ba­tics­, Corbin performed in eclectic off-Broadway shows like Fuerza Bruta and Queen of the Night, and supplemented her performing career by teaching dance and fitness classes. A pro­ducer on a nightlife show she was doing asked her and Jess King (now a Peloton superstar) about teaching for a relatively new company that was looking for strong personalities who loved to work out and were comfortable in front of the camera.

Iván Vargas’ explosive energy and ability to convey the deep-rooted quejío, or cry, of the persecuted Roma people in dance has led him to perform and teach from the historic Sacromonte caves of Granada, Spain, to stages around the world. Vargas, a high-profile protagonist of pure flamenco, has also been invited to top international flamenco festivals, such as the Festival de Jerez in his native Spain and the Festival Flamenco Albuquerque.