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What "SYTYCD" Alum Ivan Koumaev’s Listening To

Justin Timberlake dancer and “SYTYCD” favorite Ivan Koumaev offers teachers this killer playlist of songs. “I urge teachers to be music hungry,” says NUVO Dance Convention teacher Ivan Koumaev. “Search and find music, don’t just get trapped into pop culture, which is limited and not driven by creatives—it’s driven by executives. Use the creativity inside […]

3 Dance Moments from the Oscars That Almost Distracted You from the “Best Picture” Mess-Up

As a dancer and choreographer, I watch the Oscars less for the glamorous dresses and thank-you speeches and more for the always-paltry-in-number dance clips. (The Tony Awards are really where the dance performances are, amirite?) But last night’s Academy Award broadcast—in addition to a real-life, surprise-twist ending that I believe lit’rally no one saw coming—actually had a […]