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