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Women love a man who can dance. But a lot of men don’t seem to know that. Sage Robinson has struggled to recruit male students since he started a salsa dancing class in October. “My guy friends say they’ll come and they never turn up,” said the 22-ye...

Lola Pimentel-Barker is 8 and has already plotted her future. There’s a lot of dance involved. First, she wants to teach it. And then she wants to take over In Motion, the company her mother Lizz Pimentel started nearly two decades ago. It’s not a p...

You would think it would be hard to get heard in a country of 47 million people. Joanne Ball Burgess’s song Don’t Disturb My Dance is getting airplay all over Kenya. “I just got back from launching the song in Mombasa,” said the Bermudian who moved t...

Ballet is the one thing Olivia and Tristan Currelly always agree on. Their hope is to become as successful as Megan and Robbie Fairchild, sibling principals in the New York City Ballet. “It would be wonderful if when we grew up we could join the same...

Marcus Smith is making his dreams come true in Manhattan. He’s a junior at New York University, studying drama and dance at the renowned Tisch School of the Arts. The National Dance Foundation of Bermuda is helping him on his way. For the second yea...

A dance walk through the City of Hamilton will be held at noon today. The event, put on by the Department of Health, was postponed from September 21. It was to be the second event of its type, following the success of the first one in May. The one...

If you’re looking for a new way to get fit, you might want to dig out your high heels. Geisha Chin’s classes show how to use stilettos to “feel the burn”. “Dancing in heels is not as difficult as people think,” she said. “We spend a lot of time break...

The familiar sound of Gombeys echoed throughout the W.E.R. Joell Tennis Stadium this weekend at the annual Gombey Festival. The event, hosted by the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs, drew hundreds of spectators to watch performances by fo...

Tradition is important to Tyrone Alexander “Funk” Nesbitt. It’s an affirmation that’s in contrast to his character — this veteran Gombey dances to the beat of his own drum. “I was always the Gombey way out in front like a wild Indian,” said Mr Nesbit...

A new performing arts group is set to entertain Bermuda after its hopes of taking part in the Labour Day celebrations in Brooklyn were scuppered. The Bermuda Triangle AllStars brings together top band musicians, majorettes, dancers and Gombeys, who w...

When Kiara Wilkinson got in a bike accident six years ago, she was sent home with a sprained knee. But when the young dancer’s knee kept buckling, she sought a second opinion. Her orthopaedic surgeon confirmed it in minutes — she had torn her ACL and...

In its 45th year, The Bermuda Civic Ballet Summer Selections 2016 brought with it styles of dance and choreography beyond what we’re used to en pointe. The performance ran at Earl Cameron Theatre last weekend and offered a fresh take on classical bal...