Tag: joelle cosentino

Joelle Cosentino Wants Her Pre-Professional Students to Be Good Humans

Joelle Cosentino is on a mission to shake up dance education with an alternative model for pre-professional training. Because she turned her competition dance background into a star-studded career (she’s worked with Beyoncé, Mick Jagger and Lenny Kravitz), you might think her teaching goals would include a quest for rhinestones and first-place trophies. But by […]

This NYC-Based Pre-Professional Training Program Is Demanding Action Against Gun Violence

New York City–based pre-professional training troupe Z Artists Group, along with dancers from eight professional companies in the city, are joining together to combat gun violence with, “DANCERS DEMAND ACTION,” a performance aligning art with activism at The Joyce Theater, this Monday, November 11, at 7:30 pm. Dancers from Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Alvin Ailey Dance […]