Jovani Furlan is a Brazilian ballet dancer. He joined the Miami City Ballet in 2012, and was promoted to principal dancer in 2017. In 2019, he left the company to join the New York City Ballet as a soloist, and became a principal dancer in 2022.

And Then We Danced centers on Merab, a traditional Georgian dancer who has a sexual awakening when he meets Irakli, another male dancer. With his passions aflame, Merab risks his dancing career to follow his heart. In the traditionalist/homophobic Georgia, protesters actually assaulted government of...

Meet James B. Whiteside, a professional ballet dancer, musical artist, drag queen, and so much more. Learn about his many dimensions and the state of modern ballet in this episode of In the Know Profiles.

Male ballet dancers possess many admirable qualities, such as being reliably strong, that make them excellent partners in adult ballet. Since ballet is traditionally a female dominated art form, male students are in the unique position to become role models for boys who wish to pursue dance. If yo

In this tenth installement of our "Male Ballet Dancers" we are proud to feature Jovani Furland in Concertino, explaining the anatomy of a dance; Clement Guillone in Acteon; Cesar Corrales, as a young dancer and blooming to become a principal dancer in Canada performing a variation of Action; and

Dance is one of those art forms where a person has to be in alignment with his soul. One such dancer our world is blessed to have is Ukrainian born Slavik Pustovoytov (aka Vik White). Slavik got recognition as he took part in the 15th season of the well-known dance competition program So You Think Y...

We're revisiting the Brief But Spectacular take by choreographer and dancer Stuart Hodes who died last week at the age of 98. Hodes took his first dance lesson at the Martha Graham School after a stint as an aviator in World War II. He was still dancing two years ago when we featured his memoir "Ons...

In this fifth installment of contemporary and ballet male dancers we incorporated an accrobat duo by Artur & Lucatsz as well as performances by Canadian Myles Erlick Brotsjor, Italian dancer Alessandro Frola, and Russian Vadim Munagirov, principal dancer at the London Royal Ballet. With a history d

This episode presents a beautiful male ballet duet performed by choreographer Connor Scott accompanied by dancer Meshach Henry. What feels unusual in this dance is their fresh approach: Full of abandon and brimming with romantic desire, they seem utterly natural. We are also showcasing Myles Erli...

In this tenth installment of contemporary and ballet male dancers we showcase Argentinian dancer Luciano Perotto in several warming training sessions. We also present the number of male dance students at the University of Arizona have increased significantly in recent years. We also introduce