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#coverstar: Robyn Hurder 🧡 Robyn Hurder has been on Broadway for 20 years. Step by step, her over-the-top work ethic and focused preparation have landed her the role of her dreams in the show of her dreams: Ivy Lynn in “Smash,” at the Imperial Theatre as of March 11. 🌟 Read Hurder’s cover story at https://lnkd.in/eemvvvDC 📝 : Sylviane Gold 📸 : Robyn Hurder. Photo by Katie Mollison/KAMeraShoots. #robynhurder #SmashMusical #musicaltheater #dancemagazine Media Description: The cover of the March/April 2025 issue of Dance Magazine. The largest cover line reads, "Robyn Hurder Brings Her Triple-Threat Genius to Smash." Hurder poses in a gold sequin dress and matching heels. She directs a sultry look at the camera over her shoulder as she twists to one side, her back foot dragging along the floor. Another cover line at right declares this The Broadway Issue.

Get to know our #25ToWatchLive artists! Next up: Primera Generación Dance Collective ✨ "The artists behind Primera Generación Dance Collective aren’t afraid to get a little messy,” writes Phoebe Roberts. “Self-professed ‘desmadre-makers’ (in English, the phrase translates roughly to ‘mess-makers’), first-generation Mexican American dancers Alfonso Cervera, Rosa Rodriguez-Frazier, Irvin Manuel Gonzalez, and Patrica “Patty” Huerta find beauty in chaos. The group’s ‘NOStalgia POP,’a hybridization of text, satire, song, and movement that premiered at REDCAT in Los Angeles last June, references everything from Western media depictions of Latin pop culture to the performers’ own memories of growing up first-generation.” Catch PGDC in action on Monday, April 28, at 7 pm at 25 To Watch Live in New York City! For questions about event details, please contact events@dancemedia.com 🧡 Learn more about PGDC in their 25 to Watch profile: https://lnkd.in/eYgDhjSS 🎥: PGDC in their “NOStalgia POP.” All footage provided courtesy of PGDC.  📸: PGDC. Photo by Steve Rosa, courtesy of PGDC. #primerageneraciondancecollective #dancers #dance #25towatch Description: A series of clips of four dancers performing together onstage, sometimes moving individually and sometimes creating shapes together. At some moments, they use large pieces of sleeping bag–like fabric to create one large collective shape as they hold on to one another. They shimmy, jump, turn, and dash across the stage in other moments.

#TBT: In the March 1950 issue of “Dance Magazine,” a profile of ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq opened the “Young Dancer” section. Head to https://lnkd.in/gfwkTAEs to read the highlights. 📸: Tanaquil Le Clercq in 1953 (self portrait). From the “DM” Archives. 📸: Tanaquil Le Clercq’s March 1950 “Dance Magazine” profile featured a portrait of her at 18, by Walter E. Owen, and another of her at age 8. From the “DM” Archives. 📝: Courtney Escoyne #tanaquilleclercq #ballet #balletarchive #ballethistory #newyorkcityballet New York City Ballet Descriptions: 1) A black and white archival image of Tanaquil Le Clercq. She sits on a cot with an old fashioned camera in her hands, a checkered blanket draped over her shoulders. 2) A page from the March 1950 issue of “Dance Magazine.” The headline reads, “young dancer of the month...Tanaquil Le Clercq.” There is a portrait of Le Clercq, and another image of her as a young girl kneeling in an elabroate costume.

#tiredtrends 🥱 Competition dance trends become popular for a reason, but even the most exciting fads eventually run their course. In this article, four competition judges discuss the dance trends they believe it’s time to leave behind, and offer suggestions on how to refocus routines on clarity, safety, and individual artistry. Find out why at https://lnkd.in/eBn8tWyY 🌟 📸: Madi Hicks. Photo by 24Seven, Courtesy Hicks. 📝: Haley Hilton #competitiondance #competitiondancer #danceconvention Descriptions: (1) Madi Hicks extending her arm out while talking into a microphone to a group of young dancers. Text: 6 Trends Competition Judges Are Tired of Seeing in Routines

Get to know our #25ToWatchLive artists! Next up: Kyle Sangil ✨ “Whim W’Him’s Kyle Sangil disappears into choreography with ease,” writes Gigi Berardi. “Versatile and confident, the 25-year-old Philippine-born dancer trained in ballet, hip hop, breaking, and musical theater before earning a BFA in dance with a concentration in ballet from Point Park University. ‘I was the only Filipino in most dance spaces growing up in Texas,’ Sangil says. ‘The way I’d move was different, the way my body was shaped, and now I use this to my advantage.’ “ Catch Sangil in action on Monday, April 28, at 7 pm at 25 To Watch Live in New York City! For questions about event details, please contact events@dancemedia.com 🧡 Learn more about Sangil in his 25 to Watch profile: https://lnkd.in/eYgDhjSS 🎥: Kyle Sangil performing with Whim W'Him Seattle Contemporary Dance. All footage provided courtesy of Sangil. #kylesangil #dancer #whimwhim #25towatch Point Park University Description: A series of clips of Kyle Sangil catapulting himself through the air, playing with momentum, and swiveling, dropping, and rippling as he dances onstage.

In the spring of 1975, "Chicago" premiered on Broadway. Directed and choreographed by the legendary Bob Fosse, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, it razzle-dazzled audiences in a counterintuitive way: by emphasizing sophisticated­ style over flashy production elements. The musical returned to Broadway in 1996, after Ann Reinking re-created Fosse’s choreography for a short-run Encores! production at New York City Center. The revival, at the Ambassador Theatre, is now the longest-running show currently on Broadway, and second in history to only “The Phantom of the Opera.” These photos capture the performers who’ve brought “Chicago” to life over the years—from original-cast leads Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera to the numerous celebrities who’ve bowed in the show. Four dancers from “Chicago “companies past and present also share their thoughts on the essence of “Chicago,” their gratitude for Fosse, and why the production still has such sticking power five decades later. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eHBpaq6M ✨ 📸 : Bianca Marroquin and the company of "Chicago" in 2022. Photo by Jeremy Daniel, Courtesy Boneau/Bryan-Brown. 📸: Anne Reinking on Dance Magazine’s November 1975 cover. Photo by Howard Schatz, from the DM Archives. 📸: Top: Original revival cast members Ann Reinking and Bebe Neuwirth. Photo by Dan Chavkin, Courtesy BBB. Bottom: Bianca Marroquín and Charlotte D'Amboise in a 2022 performance. Photo by Jeremy Daniel, Courtesy BBB. 📸: Top: James Naughton as Billy Flynn in the 1996 Encores! production. Courtesy BBB. Bottom: Ryan Silverman as Billy flynn in a 2022 performance. Photo by Jeremy Daniel, Courtesy BBB. 📝 : Sarah Parker #chicago #chicagomusical #broadway

Get to know our #25towatchlive artists! Next up: Rachel Lockhart ✨ “Justin Peck’s dance musical ‘Illinoise’ gathered some of the dance world’s most gorgeous movers around its central campfire. But even in a cast of standouts, 24-year-old Rachel Lockhart glowed with a singular light," writes Margaret Fuhrer. "Warm, generous, and quietly self-assured, she added distinctive punctuation to the choreography’s looping phrases, finding their edges and angles. There were periods, commas, colons, little ironic quotation marks. She wrote Peck’s twisty sentences in print rather than cursive so that we could better read them. “A 2023 Juilliard graduate, Lockhart is unbound by genre. ‘Illinoise’ marked her Broadway debut; she’s also danced Ebony Williams’ choreography alongside Doja Cat, and performed with the Metropolitan Opera. She brings the same clarity of movement and intention to every project. In her body, it is all both luminous and legible.” Catch Lockhart in action on Monday, April 28, at 7 pm at 25 To Watch Live in New York City! For questions about event details, please contact events@dancemedia.com 🧡 Learn more about Lockhart in her 25 to Watch profile: https://lnkd.in/eYgDhjSS 🎥: Rachel Lockhart in her and Starla Edwards’ choreography, performed at The Juilliard School’s Peter Jay Sharp Theatre. Costume by Marion Talan, lighting by Leslie Lura-Smith, and videography by Jenny Holub. All footage provided courtesy of Lockhart. #rachellockhart #dancers #illinoisemusical #25toWatch Description: A series of clips of Rachel Lockhart dancing onstage with a black chair, underneath a singular light bulb hung from the ceiling. She wears a velvety red jumpsuit and moves fluidly, turning and gliding across the floor and at times dancing with or on the chair.

Get to know our #25ToWatchLive artists! Next up: Julia Antinozzi ✨ “Replete with romantic ballet lines that skew and morph expectations, Julia Antinozzi’s ‘Third Variation’ splits the difference between ballet and postmodern,” writes Charmaine Warren, Ph.D. “Her cast of four oscillates between executing bourrées like a massive corps de ballet and languidly circling their arms in deep lunges. Presented at New York Live Arts at the conclusion of her Fresh Tracks residency last spring, the work served as an epilogue to ‘The Suite,’ which she developed at Triskelion Arts as the inaugural recipient of the Triskelion Fellowship in 2023–24. Taken altogether, the works illustrate a probing of her fascination with classical ballet filtered through a contemporary—and uniquely Antinozzi—lens, daring viewers to take a closer look.” Catch Antinozzi’s work on Monday, April 28, at 7 pm at 25 To Watch Live in New York City! For questions about event details, please contact events@dancemedia.com 🧡 Learn more about Antinozzi in her 25 to Watch profile: https://lnkd.in/eYgDhjSS 🎥: Paulina Meneses, Kelsey Saulnier, Sienna Blaw, and Dasol Kim in Antinozzi’s “Third Variation.” Costumes by Sonya Gadet Molansky, lighting design by Jacob Zedek, and videography by Garret Parker. Commissioned by the Fresh Tracks program at New York Live Arts. All footage provided courtesy of Antinozzi. Music by Ryan Wolfe, courtesy of Antinozzi. We do not own the rights to this music. #juliaantinozzi #choreographer #choreography #25towatch Description: A series of clips of four dancers in a dance work blending postmodern and balletic movement. They pass in and out of hazy beams of light at times, swinging limbs and lunging.

Flamenco artist Manuel Liñán shook up stages worldwide with 2019’s “¡Viva!” In it, he danced in a bata de cola (ruffled-train dress) and mantón (fringed shawl) amid similarly clad men, all excellent at heel work and floreo (hand flourishes) that are traditionally reserved for women. That wit and grit has characterized Liñán’s career for over two decades. An exacting stylist eager to explore beyond technical and conceptual borders, the performer-choreographer-director turns more pensive in his recent “Muerta de Amor” (Dying of Love), which opened Flamenco Festival Miami XVI at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, March 5, before moving on to New York City Center March 7. As the U.S. debut of the evening-length work drew near, Liñán spoke with us in Spanish from his native Granada, Spain, about this intensely personal artistic statement: https://lnkd.in/gbTCxJe7 📸: Manuel Liñán’s “Muerta de Amor.” Photo by Marcos G. Punto, courtesy Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. 📝: Guillermo Perez #manuelliñan #flamenco #queerartist Descriptions: 1) Two photos laid on top and bottom. Top: A line of seven male dancers rest their right elbows on each other’s shoulders as they hold a mic up to their mouths. Their slightly raise their right legs in front of them as they lean to their right. Bottom: On a red lit stage, seven performers watch intently as downstage, a woman throws her arms up, long black skirts flying around her knees.

How to deal with problematic dance parents… 😬 In the competition dance world, with its high stakes and high tensions, difficult parental behavior—from complaining about scoring to offering unsolicited corrections—is especially common and can be seriously disruptive. Yet most dance parents believe they’re acting in their child’s best interest. So what can studio owners, competition directors, and students do to navigate problematic parent situations with grace and respect? We spoke to the experts for their advice: https://lnkd.in/eDGbk6tx 📸: Students from Larkin Dance Studio. Photo by Alyssa Kristine photography, Courtesy Larkin Dance Studio. 📝: Haley Hilton #competitiondance #danceparents #danceteacher Chelsea Pierotti PhD Descriptions: 1) A group of young students on stage forming a tableau with a variety of poses, with blue lighting. Text: How to Deal With Problematic Dance Parents