While dancing in itself requires a lot of talent and skill, a young woman is making waves on the internet for performing traditional Rajasthani dance while skating! Krishna Kanwar Gahlot, a professional speed skater who holds many records, recently participated in a cultural event hosted in the state and has became the talk of the town for dancing to folk tunes while spinning on rollerblades. Donning a traditional attire and jewellery — lehenga-choli with an elaborate matha patti and borla — the young performer was seen dancing as music

The cheers were loud and the audience was on its feet after a special performance at the recent Dancing with the Stars event in Charlottetown, an annual fundraiser for Hospice P.E.I. They were cheering for dancer Cameron Gordon, the first ever contestant with Down syndrome to participate in the fundraiser, held Oct. 16 at the Delta Prince Edward Hotel. "It feels really amazing, I almost cried a little bit," said Gordon after his performance. "The crowd was over the moon and that makes me feel like I can do anything.

The long-awaited return of Broadway has brought back many familiar preshow rituals — and also spurred a few that are new. One takes place a few hours before curtain time in middle of Times Square, under a canopy with a sandwich board sign proclaiming: “Broadway Show Testing Site.” It is there that some of the most dedicated theatergoers in the city — children under 12 who are ineligible for the vaccines theaters require — are taken by their parents to submit to nasal swabs so they can get the negative

ALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — For Mileyka Mateo, dance is everything and always has been. "Dance is my outlet you know if I’m having a bad day, I dance. If I’m having a happy day, I dance. It’s where I get away and where I can find myself," she said. According to her mom, Milka Rodriguez, she was hooked from her first lesson. Rodriguez recalled, "If she was sleeping and I was watching one of her routines and she hears the music she would move her arms in her sleep

PHOENIX — A Phoenix dance academy that has been in the Valley for more than two decades is dedicated to immersing students in Hispanic culture and history. “We teach all the traditional, which are the pre-Hispanic,” Skye Valentine, a director at Ollin Yoliztli Dance Academy, told KTAR News 92.3 FM. “We also teach the creative where we start creating the more structured chirographies and then contemporary.” The students, as young as 3 years old, are taught traditional Ballet Folklorico and wear flowing bright-colored costumes that gracefully move with them as they dance across the hardwood

A dancer, choreographer and CEO of Machol Shalem Dance House in Jerusalem, Edelman is used to hosting an array of dancers, festivals and dance works throughout the year, something that at first glance seemed completely at odds with the social distancing that Covid has brought upon us. And yet, the dance center was determined to keep up its work, giving independent dancers a platform for their creations, connecting them with influencers around the world and promoting dance culture in the city. “We examined what innovative fields and interfaces could work with

Going to see the performances of the Alborada Spanish Dance Theater, a company of 22 dancers who specialize in flamenco and other dances of Spanish cultural tradition, isn’t just an opportunity to see beautiful movements and vibrant costumes, all set to unforgettable music. It’s really a history lesson, too. “We create a story,” said Eva Lucena, one of the troupe’s founders who serves as its artistic director and historian. “That’s who we are.” The history, she said, is not just in the diverse range of dance styles they perform, many

Strictly Come Dancing fans are calling Saturday (9 October) night’s opening dance the “most beautiful” in the show’s history. This weekend’s episode is Movie Week, with the remaining contestants performing routines based around their favourite films. The episode opened with a stunning period drama-themed performance by the professional dancers to Taylor Swift’s “Love Story”. Dancers Johannes Radebe and Kai Widdrington led the couples, all of whom performed in mixed and same-sex pairs. Radebe was seen crying at the end of the dance. Fans were left spellbound by the routine, with many declaring it to

For choreographer Shana Simmons and her dance company, the COVID-19 shutdown was a fork in the road: Do they adapt and keep creating work — even if it’s not performed in person — or do they take a break? “We made the decision [to consider] how can we redo this,” she said. The result was a couple dance-for-film series that partnered dancers with public works of art across Pittsburgh and was showcased on YouTube. “I think in a lot of ways what we do as movement artists translates well into film,” she said.Those

Two local Indigenous teenagers are being rewarded for their efforts to help family and community members recover from COVID-19 while being in the hospital. Seventeen-year-old Meadow Musqua and her friend Kiana Francis have been sending their prayers through traditional healing Jingle Dress Dances they’ve been performing on the lawn of the Regina General Hospital, every evening at 6 p.m., for the past two weeks. Musqua’s mom does a Facebook Live of the dances so that those inside the hospital and others can watch as they dance. Some patients at the hospital