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Introducing Dance Magazine’s 2025 “25 to Watch”

Where is the dance field headed next? The dancers, choreographers, directors, and companies on Dance Magazine‘s annual “25 to Watch” list offer heartening, imaginative, exciting possible answers to that question. Whether or not you’re already familiar with these up-and-comers, our editors and contributors from across the dance world predict that we’ll be hearing a lot more from these artists on the verge of a breakout in 2025 and beyond. Click here to find out more.

Header collage photo credits, left to right, top to bottom: Primera Generación Dance Collective, photo by Steve Rosa, courtesy Primera Generación Dance Collective; Joseph Markey in Swan Lake, photo by Emma Zordan, courtesy American Ballet Theatre; Kendall Ramirez in George Staib’s ARARAT, photo by Christina J. Massad, courtesy Ramirez; Enzo Saugar in Maurice Béjart’s Song of a Wayfarer, photo by Julien Benhamou, courtesy Paris Opéra Ballet; Ruby Lister in Pam Tanowitz’s Law of Mosaics, photo by Erin Baiano, courtesy New York City Ballet; Kyle Sangil in Ihsan Rustem’s Rechercher. Réunir, photo by Allina Yang, courtesy Whim W’Him; Melisa Guilliams, photo by Angela Sterling, courtesy Pacific Northwest Ballet; Leïla Ka, photo by Duy-Laurent Tran, courtesy Ka; Jasmine Hearn in their Memory Fleet: A Return to Matr, photo by Jakayla Monay, courtesy Hearn/DiverseWorks; Genna Moroni, photo by Madelyn Deutch, courtesy Moroni; Kayla Hamilton, photo by Travis Magee, courtesy Hamilton; Gilbert T. Small II, photo by Whitney Browne, courtesy Gibney Company; Qwenga in his Monolith, photo by Stefan Colson, courtesy Qwenga; Rachel Lockhart, photo by Jon Taylor, courtesy Lockhart; Symara Sarai in their Blushing Cherry, photo by Whitney Browne, courtesy Sarai; Julia Antinozzi, photo by Spencer Weidie Photography, courtesy Antinozzi; Yoel Vargas, photo by Farruk, courtesy Vargas; Brett Fukuda, photo by Agathe Poupeney, courtesy Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin; Francisco Lemus, photo by Gustavo Barrios, courtesy Trinity Irish Dance Company; Loughlan Prior (right) in rehearsal with Harrison James and Ana Gallardo Lobaina, photo by Ross Brown, courtesy Prior/Royal New Zealand Ballet; Isaiah Day in Alvin Ailey’s Revelations, photo by Daniel Azoulay, courtesy Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Miguel Wansing Lorrio in Dana Genshaft’s The Awakening, photo by Jennifer Zmuda, courtesy BalletMet; Dava Huesca, photo by Alice Chacon, courtesy Huesca; Jainil Mehta, photo by Anusha, courtesy Mehta; Mayfield Myers in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, photo by Alexander Iziliaev, courtesy Philadelphia Ballet

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Tapas Das: Tapas Das, a young entrepreneur of our times started TWIST N TURNS in 2005. A person who is kind, generous, creative and down to earth wanted to start his own one of a kind dance academy. According to him, Dance is a language of movements that involves space, time and the human body. He was born and grew up in Kolkata, the cultural hub of India. Being appreciated in the field of dance all his life, he is extremely talented. He has been dancing since the age of four. Once he finished his high school, he learned jazz/modern and contemporary dance. His horizons were broadened even more when he started dancing Bollywood with Beat Busters for 4 years, which then was the most upcoming dance crew in Kolkata. After that exposure, he studied how to be a dance teacher, which later started helping him impart his knowledge about dance. Thus, in 2005, with the help of family and friends, he started TWIST N TURNS. Starting with a mere number of 40 students, today TWIST N TURNS currently has over 500 students. Over the time Tapas has taught and performed all over the country. He has performed in cities such as Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai, Jhansi, Jaipur, Jodhpur, and Udaipur etc. He has been an active participant in the Salsa India Congress in the cities of Bangalore and Bombay, and he has also visited various International Salsa Congresses in Europe, namely in Berlin ,Singapore, Hong Kong,Dubai. He is been also trained recently at Broadway Dance Center (New York), Alvin Alley (New York) and Steps on Broadway (New York). He is not only a dancer or teacher. He is a successful choreographer and has coordinated various shows without difficulty in our country. His leadership skills are exceptional, thus he is where he stands today. His aim in life would be to become a dance educator. He wants to share his tremendous knowledge in the right way to the right people. He is also, simultaneously running other brands like Zumba Kolkata, Bollywood Studio ArtistWala.com and India International Dance Institute.