Since the first performance in 1995, the annual Fire Island Dance Festival has become the Island's most anticipated cultural event of the season. Fire Island Dance Festival features an eclectic mix of world-renowned and emerging dancers, dance companies and choreographers. The weekend-long festival ...

Community of Lights is proud to introduced the magnificent ballet academy in St Petersburg, Russia. In this episode we present the male ballet academy rehersals and presentations. Enjoy!All students at the school begin by studying a program of dance training, secondary school level education, Fren...

The 21st edition of Fire Island Dance Festival featured 43 professional dancers entertaining three sold-out crowds with Broadway, ballet, contemporary and modern dance. Fire Island Dance Festival returned for its 21st edition July 17-19, 2015, with some of the most talked-about world-class dance com...

At the 2017 Fire Island Dance Festival, Havana, Cuba’s Acosta Danza, led by dance legend Carlos Acosta, presented For Us, a mesmerizing ballet that explored the passion, frustration and sadness of a couple in love. Dancers Mario Sergio Elías and Raul Reinoso expressed this tragic love story through

World Ballet Day 2022 returns for its ninth year, bringing together a host of the world’s leading companies for a packed day of dance. Over the course of the day, rehearsals, discussions and classes will be streamed for free across six continents, offering unique behind-the-scenes glimpses of ball

First Position is a new award-winning dance documentary coming to theaters May 2012. It features some of the most talented young dancers in the world as they compete for ballet scholarships that have the power to change their lives. The movie stars Michaela DePrince, Aran Bell, Miko & Jules Fogarty,...

Egor Gerashchenko was born in Moscow. He started his ballet education at the Moscow State Choreographic Academy (class of Mikhail Sharkov). In the autumn of 2015, at the beginning of the new school year, continued his studies at Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, St. Petersburg.

Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly strong popularity in the U.S. and Europe. In this episode we introduce the...

Dressed in a white Saints tshirt and skinny black jeans, 25-year-old Jesse Hernandez made history over the weekend when he hit the field for the New Orleans Saints Saintsations dance squad performance. Hernandez is one of three male NFL cheerleaders joining the league this season along with Quinton ...

Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker was first performed in 1892; since then, the show has become a holiday tradition. In The Hip Hop Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky’s soundtrack remains, but there’s no ballet. It’s a contemporary spin on a classic, and the show tours around the world. We attended a New York City