The place is the dance area headed subsequent? The dancers, choreographers, administrators, and firms on Dance Journal‘s annual “25 to Watch” record supply heartening, imaginative, thrilling attainable solutions to that query. Whether or not or not you’re already acquainted with these up-and-comers, our editors and contributors from throughout the dance world predict that we’ll be listening to much more from these artists on the verge of a breakout in 2025 and past. Click on right here to seek out out extra.
Header collage photograph credit, left to proper, prime to backside: Primera Generación Dance Collective, photograph by Steve Rosa, courtesy Primera Generación Dance Collective; Joseph Markey in Swan Lake, photograph by Emma Zordan, courtesy American Ballet Theatre; Kendall Ramirez in George Staib’s ARARAT, photograph by Christina J. Massad, courtesy Ramirez; Enzo Saugar in Maurice Béjart’s Tune of a Wayfarer, photograph by Julien Benhamou, courtesy Paris Opéra Ballet; Ruby Lister in Pam Tanowitz’s Regulation of Mosaics, photograph by Erin Baiano, courtesy New York Metropolis Ballet; Kyle Sangil in Ihsan Rustem’s Rechercher. Réunir, photograph by Allina Yang, courtesy Whim W’Him; Melisa Guilliams, photograph by Angela Sterling, courtesy Pacific Northwest Ballet; Leïla Ka, photograph by Duy-Laurent Tran, courtesy Ka; Jasmine Hearn of their Reminiscence Fleet: A Return to Matr, photograph by Jakayla Monay, courtesy Hearn/DiverseWorks; Genna Moroni, photograph by Madelyn Deutch, courtesy Moroni; Kayla Hamilton, photograph by Travis Magee, courtesy Hamilton; Gilbert T. Small II, photograph by Whitney Browne, courtesy Gibney Firm; Qwenga in his Monolith, photograph by Stefan Colson, courtesy Qwenga; Rachel Lockhart, photograph by Jon Taylor, courtesy Lockhart; Symara Sarai of their Blushing Cherry, photograph by Whitney Browne, courtesy Sarai; Julia Antinozzi, photograph by Spencer Weidie Images, courtesy Antinozzi; Yoel Vargas, photograph by Farruk, courtesy Vargas; Brett Fukuda, photograph by Agathe Poupeney, courtesy Ballet de l’Opéra nationwide du Rhin; Francisco Lemus, photograph by Gustavo Barrios, courtesy Trinity Irish Dance Firm; Loughlan Prior (proper) in rehearsal with Harrison James and Ana Gallardo Lobaina, photograph by Ross Brown, courtesy Prior/Royal New Zealand Ballet; Isaiah Day in Alvin Ailey’s Revelations, photograph by Daniel Azoulay, courtesy Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Miguel Wansing Lorrio in Dana Genshaft’s The Awakening, photograph by Jennifer Zmuda, courtesy BalletMet; Dava Huesca, photograph by Alice Chacon, courtesy Huesca; Jainil Mehta, photograph by Anusha, courtesy Mehta; Mayfield Myers in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, photograph by Alexander Iziliaev, courtesy Philadelphia Ballet
Introducing Dance Journal’s 2025 “25 to Watch”
