Dance News

New dance documentary to premiere soon

The feature-length documentary Strength and Beauty will be premiering in London, England at the Portobello Film Festival on September 3. The film examines the lives of three ballerinas working at North Carolina Dance Theatre in Charlotte, NC. Each dancer is at a different point in their career ranging from their first year to their fifteenth. They open up

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Bloch sponsors SYTYCD Live Tour 2013!

In its first large-scale entertainment sponsorship, Bloch recently announced that it is a participating sponsor in the 2013 Live Tour of the hit Fox TV series So You Think You Can Dance.

Bloch will provide apparel and shoes to the Top 10 tour dancers from Season 10 of the Emmy Award-winning show to wear while performing live on tour across the

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UDMA offers dance seminars at fall shows

This fall, United Dance Merchants of America (UDMA) will present new dance seminars during the organization’s Dance Resource and Costume Shows, coming to Atlanta, Ga, Meadowlands, NJ and Chicago, IL.

UDMA’s 20th Anniversary Dance Resource and Costume Show, which is free and open to all dance teachers and studio owners, will visit

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NYCB opens four-week fall season in Sept.

New York City Ballet will open its 2013-14 season on Tuesday, September 17 with six performances of Peter Martins’ full-length production of Swan Lake. Set to Tschaikovsky’s score and featuring sets and costumes by the acclaimed Danish painter Per Kirkeby, the production was last performed by NYCB in the fall of 2011 to sold-out houses.
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