With a history dating back more than four hundred years, ballet has progressed from Renaissance court pageantry to royal entertainment to full-fledged performing art. It is often misunderstood as a form of dance meant for girls and women only, but nothing could be further from the truth! To unders

In this episode of Male Ballet Duets we feature the work of British choreographer Christopher Wheeldon who is considered as one of the most important dance-makers currently working in the ballet world. We present two male duet performances by Teo Dubreuil and David Donnelly and one performed by Jor...

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

Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake is a contemporary ballet based on the Russian romantic work Swan Lake, from which it takes the music by Tchaikovsky and the broad outline of the plot. Bourne's rendering is best known for having the traditionally female parts of the swans danced by men. It was the longest-...

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...

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.

Once-in-a-lifetime pairings of ballet and contemporary luminaries, three remarkable world premieres, an excerpt of a seminal piece that changed the history of modern dance and unpredictable weather conditions marked this year’s sold-out Fire Island Dance Festival on July 20-22, 2018. The 24th editio

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...

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 ...

This video highlights "Freestayle and Street Dancing with performances by acclaimed hip-hop artist Vik White, originally from Ukraine, accompanied by several hip-hop dancers including RAINO, DAISI AND AUBREY FISHER. We also include a short cut of a spontaneous breakdancing at Times Square in NYC.