When Reed Tankersley was honored as one in all Dance Journal’s “25 to Watch” in 2017, he was a current graduate from The Juilliard College who had been touring the nation as a part of Twyla Tharp’s fiftieth Anniversary Tour. Since then, Tankersley’s profession has continued to bloom, touchdown him within the studio with Tharp for a slew of extra initiatives (just like the troupe’s 2022 run at New York Metropolis Middle), in addition to the lead position in Cirque du Soleil’s Volta in 2019. He’ll kick off 2025 with Tharp as soon as extra, dancing within the firm’s Sixtieth-anniversary tour.
Tankersley is a lush and commanding mover, with an virtually preternaturally calm onstage presence—he’s simple to belief, even in essentially the most demanding roles. In actual fact, he relishes the problem. “If you’re performing one thing like Within the Higher Room, you need to create an entire routine of the way you deal with your self all through. You might have to have the ability to keep in a very good headspace, even once you understand you continue to have 20 nonstop minutes left,” Tankersley says.
New Beginnings
“Certainly one of my favourite issues about being a contract dancer is that each job introduces me to a brand new group of colleagues and a brand new setting. I attempt to strategy every job with an open, prepared, and optimistic mindset. Through the years, I’ve realized how distinctive and fortunate freelancers are in that regard.”
Huge Apple Advantages
“I really like the accessibility of New York Metropolis. I really like going to concert events, exploring the tradition of town. Every thing is so out there, and whereas I really like dance, clearly, I additionally love a number of different issues—dwelling within the metropolis lets me have extra stability in my life, which additionally helps my dancing.”
IRL Power
“I feel reside efficiency is so essential as a result of a lot of life is finished nearly nowadays. Folks spend a lot time on their telephone that it’s simple to neglect what it’s wish to expertise somebody’s precise vitality, proper in entrance of you. You actually really feel one thing. It’s actually shifting—and likewise simply actually cool.”
