Australia’s Queensland Ballet are attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest ballet class. On Sunday, May 22 around 2000 dancers from across Australia will gather with Queensland Ballet dancers on the Kurilpa Bridge in South Brisbane for a 30 minute basic, but fun classical barre class starting promptly at 9:00am.
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New York's most explosive dance competition hit Broadway tonight at BB Kings Blues Club on 42nd Street. Run The Night, produced by Jared Grimes and Cheryl Cutlip brought up-and-coming talent to the stage in front of industry judges, including Dance Informa’s Deborah Searle. There was not an empty seat in the house as the audience enjoyed dynamic,
Les Ballets Persans presents the 8th season of the European Youth Dance Project (EYDP) this year. For the upcoming season, the project engages professional and semiprofessional male and female dancers, offering a complete program of performance production, repertory work and technical enhancement with focus on classical and neo-classical training, master
Compete online to win prizes over $4,000! The Dance Off has partnered with World Dance Movement to bring you the World Dance Movement International Dance Off Competition! Dancers around the world can compete with each other through this innovative online portal for the chance to win scholarships to World Dance Movement Italy 2011 - a value of over
Belluscious Productions and Genevieve Cleary are transforming the dancer’s role in Las Vegas. While Las Vegas is known for show girls, Broadway performers and even go-go dancers, Belluscious is giving professional, technically trained dancers an opportunity to showcase their talents in a whole new light. The all-female troupe has taken the idea of
Last night Season 6 of America's Best Dance Crew came to a close with the announcement of the winning Crew. After 10 amazing episodes the two teams left to battle it out were the young all male 'Iconic Boys' and the unique and creative 'iaMmE'. After 50 million votes were counted iaMmE was crowned America's Best Dance Crew, taking home the $100,000 prize.
Don’t miss America’s most up and coming choreographers at New York’s Young Choreographer's Festival next month - June 11th, 8:00pm at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, Symphony Space. The mission of The Young Choreographer’s Festival is to present the work of the hottest new talent in all genres of dance.
The unique event
Birmingham Ballet will be hosting a benefit on Saturday June 11 at Pale Eddie’s Pour House, from 7-9 pm.
This event will be held to celebrate the premiere of the new Repertory Company as well as the partnership developed with the Laura Crandall Brown Ovarian Cancer Foundation. Admission is a $5 dollar donation to the Foundation. It will
Season 12 is a wrap and what a season it was! Before the dazzling finale, we were treated to many weeks of shoes flying, stars crying, pros stumbling and an ever-changing leaderboard! The hits kept coming (as did the misses) as the stars rehearsed hard and danced harder in pursuit of the coveted Mirror Ball Trophy.
Right out of the gate there
JaQuel Knight, Award-Winning Celebrity Choreographer, Artistic Director and mastermind behind Beyoncéʼs “Single Ladies” phenomenon, has just choreographed the music video to Nicole Scherzingerʼs first US single “Right There” featuring 50 Cent, and is currently working on her upcoming American Idol performance airing May 19.
Season 6 of ABDC comes to an end this Sunday on MTV, with the nail-biting finale at 7:30/6:30 C.Will the talented youngsters ‘Iconic Boys’ be the youngest group ever to win ABDC, or will 'iaMmE' take the prize with their creativity and sharp moves? You’ll have to watch to find out! Dance Informa wishes both crews the best of luck.
