Dance Spirit

There are dance competitions that put on a great show, and then there are the ones that leave dancers feeling like family. Spirit of Dance Awards (SDA) has spent years doing both. It’s a family-run event that prioritizes attention to detail at every competition and convention weeken...

American Ballet Theatre Studio Company dancer Audrey Tovar-Dunster performs with maturity and skill beyond her years, but not beyond her experiences. The 17-year-old, who began her training at the Philadelph...

The dance floor is seriously heating up! “Dancing with the Stars” will welcome a new pro for Season 35, and this time, a new reality TV show is following a group of dancers as they duke it out for the coveted spot.

“Dancing with the Stars: The Next Pro”

Navigating the dance space can be difficult for anyone, but doing it while having multiple disabilities—especially when you don’t know what they are—is a whole other ballpark. I’m Lucy Turner, a 24-year-old dance artist based in the UK, and up until my 20s I had no clue I was disabled. Don’t get me wrong—I knew something was different compared to other dancers. But without kn...

Payton Johnson’s dancing is a tempest of opposites. In a solo in Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber’s Seven Scenes at Little Island in New York City last summer, she moved seamlessly between pinpoint precision and breathtaking abandon. Her performance was at once elemental, like she was animated by forces of nature, and undeniably human—a young woman moving on instinc...