Since it's YAGP season here, I want to emphasize the importance of acquiring basic technique skills. While watching dancers perform at YAGP, you can see them do multiple pirouettes, yet they lack the technique to close to a simple fifth position. The beau...

First year students at Vaganova school! Its important to focus on the basics first.

Incredibly talented Break Dance and body popping trio give an outstanding performance!

Everyone seems to have their favorite part of class. Wheather it's barre, adagio, allegros or pirouettes you enjoy doing most in class, usually you enjoy the one you're best at.... or you may enjoy all !

Alexander Sergeev in Talisman pas de deux variation. Notice his incredible elevation when he jumps!

Amazing Dub-step Irish Tap Dancing Group, Prodijig, in perfect unison!

A Pas de Deux is a dance between two people, usually a man and a woman. A pas de deux usually comes at a high point of drama in a ballet and is often between lovers.

Amazing 5th Year Vaganova Students In Character Class

There are many inspiring stories of young artists that remain untold or unheard of. It's not until someone decides share their side of the story with the rest of us. Here are the 5 best, and most inspiring ballet movies.

Pavlo Pavlovych Virsky was a dancer, balletmaster, choreographer, and founder of the P. Virsky Ukrainian National Folk Dance Ensemble, whose work in Ukrainian dance was groundbreaking and influenced generations of dancers.

Chinese State Circus performing swan lake. Unbelievable balance and focus!

We all know that there are those of us who always keep our dance bags in tip-top shape and perfectly organized. Then there are those of us who, no matter how many times we take time to organize our bags, always end up with a jumble of stuff in our dance b...

So many dancers strongly dislike the fact that they have to sew pointe shoes. It's probably the only thing they truly hate about dance, and who can blame them! Here are two easy ways to knot your sewing thread.

This contestant blew the audience away by dancing to his own animated backdrop

Six year old girl and seven year old boy, on Ukraine's Got Talent.