Please Stop Dancing Until You Drop
We need to encourage dancers to take breaks and create a culture where self care is praised as well as taking well deserved breaks when needed.
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We need to encourage dancers to take breaks and create a culture where self care is praised as well as taking well deserved breaks when needed.
Though new fresh takes on movies can be uplifting and eye opening in terms of theme or message, there are some stories that I believe should never be remade.
With the pandemic (hopefully) coming to an end and a recent loss in my family, here is a reflection upon how life can be taken away in an instant.
'The reason live theatre is amazing is because it’s never the same.
In honor of the long-awaited return of Broadway, I wanted to focus on a fairly new musical: Moulin Rouge! In this post, I want to explore what about the original movie makes this tale ideal inspiration for an innovative and entertaining musical adaptation.
In my personal experience, organization guides and advice have always been phrased as a way for you to mimic the success of someone else, rather than explore your own path and needs.
Jukebox musicals often get a bad rap among both theatre purists and those who think they are above a good ol' production number.
Before it closed, the Drama Bookshop was easily one of my favorite places in the world.
College auditions can be the most stressful part of the year for most senior soon-to-be theatre majors.
If you’re a theater student like myself or just a performer in general, and you’re nervous about doing it all in-person again, just remember that you’re human.
In summer, I enjoy everything I watch more because as students school's out and we have at least one month without worrying about a thing, so if I watch a really great movie probably later I'll be painting something or discovering new artists because of the soundtrack or reading the novel that…
What happens when an industry dependent on building stories can’t afford to build them? We take a look into the American lumber shortage and how it’s affected theatres around the country.
While it seems impossible to bring the theatrics of musical theatre to TV screens on a weekly basis, when you get down to it, television provides an insanely wide array of opportunities.
Of course, it is important to keep training, vocalizing, learning and expanding, but don't let other people decide if you are talented or not.
After having my first year of college online, here is how I am preparing for the switch between 100% online to 100% irl.
The truth is, I don’t know what makes a good musical anymore—and I’m not sure Broadway does, either.
This past weekend, I watched A Place For Us: Celebrating Trans and Non-Binary Artists in Musical Theatre.
Sandbox is a student run company.
When asked the jarring where do I see myself in 10 years question…I don’t know, my dreams, the people I meet, my passions, they are constantly changing and growing, they grow with me.
It’s crazy to think I’m halfway through my BFA program.
“Why, then the world’s my oyster, which I with sword will open” (Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 2 Scene 2)
March 17, 2020: my unofficial official last day of senior year.
I am not saying you need to go to the gym and make it your routine, you do whatever you want.
It’s summer time, which means, hopefully, there’s some extra free time for relaxing.
I am the target audience for Disney+’s “High School Musical The Musical The Series.” I’m a musical theatre major, participated in the high school theatre, and repeatedly watched the behind-the-scenes dance tutorials on the original High School Musical DVD when I was seven years old- but I…