Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch"

Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch" is an annual list published by Dance Magazine of leading young dancers and choreographers, as well as new dance companies and trends in dance. The list is printed in the January issue of the magazine each year.

2012

"25 to Watch" for 2012:

• Ana Lopez
• Caleb Teicher
• Keenan Kampa
• Yonah Acosta
• August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble
• Kleber Rebello
• Courtney D. Jones
• Anna Tikhomirova
• Micah Moch
• tEEth
• Courtney Muscroft
• Danielle Rowe
• Tzveta Kassabova
• Marlon Taylor-Wiles
• Brooklyn Mack
• Katherine Williams
• Lil Buck
• Carrie Hanson
• Price Suddarth
• Beth Gill
• Zack Tang
• Rachel Van Buskirk
• Taylor Stanley
• Eun Jung Choi
• Gustavo Ramírez Sansano

2011

"25 to Watch" for 2011:

• Jerome Tisserand
• Roberto Cisneros
• Isaac Akiba
• Renan Cerdeiro
• Leann Underwood
• Whitney Huell
• Julianne Kepley
• Brittany Pollack
• Melissa Hamilton
• Allison Miller
• Adam Hougland
• Olivier Wevers
• Robert Dekkers
• Yannick Lebrun
• Ryoji Sasamoto
• Ahmed Khemis
• Nikki Zialcita
• Troy Ogilvie
• Emily Schoen
• Jonathan Fredrickson
• Huang Yi
• Luciana Achugar
• Alexandria "Brinae Ali" Bradley
• Teddy Forance
• Nick Kenkel

2010

"25 to Watch" for 2010:

• Robert Fairchild
• Julia Rhoads
• Adrienne Benz
• Maeghan McHale
• Lloyd Knight
• Isaac Hernández
• Sheryl Murakami
• Company C Contemporary Ballet
• Irina Tsikurishvili
• Claudia Rahardjanoto
• Ekaterina Krysanova
• Nelly van Bommel
• Iyar Elezra
• Alex Wong
• Jessika Muns
• Pearlann Porter
• Aparna Ramaswamy
• William Wingfield
• Rumpus Room
• Emily Proctor
• Caine Keenan
• Eric Tamm
• Sean Dorsey
• Judith Sanchez Ruiz
• Whitney Jensen

2009

"25 to Watch" for 2009:

• Ballet Nouveau Colorado
• Melissa Thomas
• Leslie Kraus (of Kate Weare Company)
• Sarah Reynolds
• Edwin Aparicio
• Manuelito Biag
• Rachel Piskin
• Kyle Abraham
• Sonya Tayeh
• Ricardo Zayas
• Francisco Graciano
• Kiesha Lalama-White
• Andrea Miller / Gallim Dance [1]
• Jessica Tong
• Sarah Reich
• Christopher Vo
• Megan Quiroz
• Kara Wilkes
• Seth Stewart
• Marideth Wanat
• Jessica Collado
• Lux Boreal
• Ginger Smith
• Eric Underwood
• Rachel Foster

2008

"25 to Watch" for 2008:

• Sarawanee Tanatanit
• Kinodance Company
• Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
• Dawn Dipple
• Lorraine Chapman
• Kendrick Jones
• Tyler Angle
• Natalie Cortez
• Exhale Dance Tribe
• Mathew Janczewski and Arena Dances
• Michela Marino Lerman
• Diana Albrecht
• Charles O. Anderson and Dance Theatre X
• Carolyn Rose Ramsay
• Penny Saunders
• Ekaterina Kondaurova
• Sharna Fabiano
• Kumiko Tsuji
• Celestina
• Noah Racey
• Mara Vinson
• Ivan Vasiliev
• Chase Johnsey
• Faye Driscoll
• Shinichi Iova-Koga

2007

"25 to Watch" for 2007:

• Dawn Fay [2]
• Meisha Bosma
• Columbus Movement Movement (cm2)
• Natalia Osipova
• Kenta Shimizu
• Grease on Reality TV
• Attack Theatre
• Webdance (dance videos on the internet)
• Tiit Helimets [3]
• Vivian Nixon
• Ephrat Asherie
• Nelida Tirado
• Holly Johnston
• Zane Booker
• Peng-Yu Chen
• Peggy Dolkas
• The Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at ABT
• Chris Elam: Misnomer Dance Theater
• Helen Pickett
• Sean Patrick Mahoney
• Lauri Stallings
• Rulan Tangen
• Max Pollak
• Jamar Roberts
• Melody Herrera

2006

"25 to Watch" for 2006:

• "Cricket" (James P. Colter)
• Anouk van Dijk
• Caitlin Valentine
• Kurt Douglas
• Tania Isaac
• Aesha Ash
• Ma Cong
• Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Theater
• Edwaard Liang
• Ballet Pacifica
• Josie Walsh
• Carla Körbes
• Lisa Benson
• Dance Camera West Film Festival
• Hee Seo
• Mariko Kida
• Leticia Oliveira
• Jonah Bokaer
• Isaac Spencer
• Misa Kuranaga
• Miguel Gutierrez
• Yevgenia Obraztsova
• Amar Ramasar
• This Woman's Work
• Kazu Kumagai

2005

"25 to Watch" for 2005:

• Feng-Yi Sheu
• Danny Tidwell
• Avichai Scher
• Uri Sands
• Szabolcs Varga
• Maria Gillespie
• Nancy Lemenager
• Nutnaree Pipit-Suksan
• Yoon-Jeong Jin
• Fin Walker
• Mark Dendy
• Mikhail Ilyin
• Brian Reeder
• Scott Wells [4]
• Amy Seiwert [5]
• Natalia Magnicaballi
• Kristi Boone
• William Cannon
• Teresa Reichlen
• Nejla Y. Yatkin [6]
• Erik Kaiel
• Domingo Rubio
• Kristen Foote
• Kathi Martuza
• Motaz Kabbani

2004

"25 to Watch" for 2004:

• George Piper Dances
• Noémie Lafrance
• Benjamin Levy
• Dominic Walsh Dance Theater
• Stella Abrera
• David Hallberg
• Verb Ballets [7]
• Cathy Marston
• Matjash Mrozewski
• Nicolas Blanc
• Viengsay Valdes
• Revealing the Emotional Body (works by New York choreographers Aviva Geismar, Fiona Marcotty, Mollie O'Brien, and RoseAnne Spradlin)
• Emily Patterson
• Janice Garrett
• Seth Orza
• Peter Boal and Company
• Jason Samuels-Smith
• Margie Gillis
• Erick Montes
• Bradon McDonald
• Paulette Beauchamp
• Train Wreck Dance Company [8]
• Vincent Mantsoe
• Larry Keigwin
• Christopher Stowell

2003

"25 to Watch" for 2003:

• Bahiyah Sayyed-Gaines
• Jerry Mitchell
• Tamieca McCloud
• Taryn Kaschock
• Veronika Part
• Christopher Hampson
• Jamie Farquhar
• Johannes Wieland
• The Foundry's
• Sduduzo Ka-Mbili
• Misty Copeland
• Diane Coburn Bruning
• Narrative Ballets (as a rising genre; choreographers Paul Vasterling, Trey McIntyre, Todd Bolender)
• Justin Jones and Chris Yon
• Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal [9]
• Daisuke Takeuchi
• Henri Oguike
• Ruben Martin
• Carrie Imler
• CityDance Ensemble
• Irina Golub
• Jose Mateo
• Alexandra Ansanelli
• Amanda Miller
• Guillaume Cote

2002

"25 to Watch" for 2002:

• Akram Khan
• Mariellen Olson
• Andrian Fadeyev
• Genevieve Guerard
• Thaddeus Davis
• Melissa Barak
• Sonya Delwaide
• Maia Wilkins
• David Shimotakahara
• Roxane Butterfly
• Gillian Murphy
• Jorden Morris
• Philadelphia (as an up-and-coming city for dance)
• Wade Robson
• Anita Sun Pacylowski
• Tamar Rogoff
• Sean Steward
• Chica Mori
• Cleo Mack
• Sarah Hughes
• Tony Powell
• Alison Roper
• Ashley Canterna
• Nicholas Leichter
• Williamsburg (as an artistic community)

2001

"25 to Watch" for 2001:

• Xiao Nan Yu
• Calvin Kitten
• Shawn Bowen
• Michael Moschen
• 3 point juncture (choreographers Yanira Castro, Tiffany Mills, and Pam Tanowitz)
• Yasuko Yokoshi and Gonnie Heggen
• T.J. Espinoza
• The Young Hoofers (Traci Mann)
• Kaori Nakamura
• Adam Hendrickson
• Daniel Ulbricht
• Marcelo Gomes
• Daniel Marshall
• Richard Move
• Retail Dance (choreographer Kim Shipp)
• Ashley Bouder
• Paule Turner
• Wayne McGregor
• Caroline Rocher
• Li Chiao-Ping
• Bill "Crutchmaster" Shannon
• Kyra Nichols
• Dancewear's Junction: Fashion, Function (towards more stylish dance clothes)
• Paul S. Abrahamson
• Miami City Ballet