When sisters Adelia and Brittanna Roberts are dancing, they make it look effortless. Watching them rehearse at Harp Irish Dance Company in American Fork, an onlooker would get the sense that they were truly born to be Irish dancers. The sisters, natives of Midway, began dancing when they were toddlers, making the journey to Harp Irish Dance Company three times a week with their older sister. Now, Adelia, 20, and Brittanna, 23, are headed to Belfast, Northern Ireland, to compete in the An Coimisiún le Rincí Gaelacha 50th

Greetings! I’m Ammar! Answering the question “who am I?” is tricky, because people have called me a dancer, a performer, a choreographer, a video editor, a filmmaker and an artist. All in all, I spend most of my time creating stories and I am proud to say I am a deaf jack-of-all-trades. Yes, you heard me right – I have a disability and that is being deaf. I was born with hearing and became deaf growing up. I have witnessed and identified many differences and similarities in both

The St. Patrick's Day parade had been hailed as a return to normalcy in Milwaukee, which canceled the celebration the past two years due to the pandemic. But for members of the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies, a local dance troupe for grandmothers, the parade last week stirred up four-month-old memories of when three of its members and a volunteer were killed during its performance in Waukesha, Wisconsin. "There was anxiety because people didn't know how they would be. Everybody was determined that we were going to do this parade," said

In 2017, Renáta entered the private dog dance world. He taught Luna various tricks from an early age, and the pup absorbed the knowledge with great enthusiasm. Although the owner was first afraid that he would not be very successful in dog dancing due to the large size of the Moscow Watcher, they eventually started a race. They finished third in the starting class straight away. (latest news here) “Luna’s talent showed up early on, but no one would guess what the potential was. After our first competition, I

Two dancers from Ukraine’s leading opera company have hung up their ballet shoes to join the armed forces after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an attack on Ukraine last week. Images have circulated online of a principal dancer and ballerina at the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv, in camouflage holding weapons. Principal dancer Oleksii Potiomkin, who has been telling his story on Instagram, is currently fighting in Kyiv. His story went viral after Ukrainian American writer Natalia Antonova, who has written for The Guardian, posted about the dancer

An Asian-American dancer en route to a first-performance celebration at New York’s Public Theater was attacked Wednesday night in what theater officials describe as the latest “disgusting and heartbreaking” incident “in a long history of violence against Asian Americans.” The dancer, who was not identified, was attacked near Seward Park on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a short distance from the Chinatown apartment where Christina Yuna Lee was murdered on Feb. 13 in a violent attack that was the latest in a surge of high-profile crimes involving Asian-American

You’re going to feel silly, Angela Trimbur promised. It was a Sunday, and Trimbur, a dancer and choreographer in a Jane Fonda-worthy ’80s leotard, was leading a class in a midtown Manhattan studio. Nearly 50 people were lured in by her pitch: an afternoon twirled away in unserious but very intentional movement. The goal, Trimbur said, was to attain the effervescence of children putting on a backyard dance show. “We’re equal, we’re 13, and we’re just going to do some silly choreography to show our parents before dinner,” she

CINCINNATI — When you watch a Revolution Dance Theatre ballet, you’ll see the typical pointe shoes and tutus, but you’ll also hear afro-drum beats and spirituals. Most importantly, to artistic director David Choate, you’ll see Black stories told through Black dancers. He founded the company to promote diversity in Cincinnati’s fine arts and now as the only African American company in residence at the Aronoff Center, Choate’s dancers get to kick off Black History Month, telling those stories on one of the city’s most prestigious stages. Choate got his

(NewsNation Now) — Gurdeep Pandher, who has captured millions of fans with his Bhangra-style dancing, has brought joy and wonder during the dark days of the pandemic winter. During one of his recent videos from the Yukon, the temperature was -40 degrees Fahrenheit, but there he was, clad in red boots, blue jeans, red flannel shirt and a turban, showing off dance moves that would have given John Travolta hip pains during his “Saturday Night Fever” days. He says he posts the videos because he knows dancing is