“So You Think You Can Dance” is fun to watch, but you can do some dancing of your own at Dance Doctors in Gilbert, where a drop-in class on Wednesday evenings make it easy to learn some memorable moves.

The Kimberly Lewis School of Dance has a new name and new location.

One of the few Valley locales to learn and practice street-style dance — Jukebox Dance Studio in Gilbert — continues to make a name for itself in the national and international hip hop arena.

LOS ANGELES - Hollywood's long, dreary summer finally is over. Now it's on to the good stuff. And it better be good, if film studios hope to salvage what's shaping up as the worst year for movie attendance since the late 1990s.

Young dancers from area studios are invited to open auditions Aug. 27 to perform alongside 40 Russian pros in the Great Russian Nutcracker. The auditions, which start at 3 p.m. at 1840 E. Warner Road #132, will be conducted by Moscow Ballet soloist Nataliya Miroshynk, who will train the dancers, ages 7-16, for several days.

For a dancer who already has packed a number of highlights into her 11 years, Kendall Glover will take a big step in front of a national audience later this month.

It’s hard to teach tots the finer points of dance when some of them can’t even pronounce words like “plié.” That doesn’t mean they can’t try, though, as Tribune photographer Ralph Freso learned at a ballet/tap beginner dance class for 3- and 4-year-olds at Jeanne’s School of Dance in Mesa.

Phoenix Dance Cooperative (PDC) and Soul Shock Dance Company were recently honored by the Federation of Dance Competitions (FDC) as one of 10 Pacific Region studios to earn the title of “Top Ten Studio.”

The Art Studios building at the Mesa Arts Center is home to 14 visual and performing arts studios. Each offers a comprehensive program of community arts education classes, workshops and lectures.

LOS ANGELES — Struggling movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is looking for a buyer.

Twice a week, Judy Simonsen drives 100 miles round-trip from north Scottsdale to east Mesa to “Karve” her body. She makes the trek to K Pilates for Karve, a body-sculpting class taught by Kendra Jordan.

The newly founded Phoenix Dance Cooperative with their Soul Shock Dance Company had an outstanding showing at the recent Kid's Artistic Review (KAR) dance competition at the Mesa Arts Center. Most notable was the winning of the Federation of Dance Competition's "People's Choice Award" for their routine Turn to Stone. This award is chosen at the consensus of all judges for the best routine out of all 499 routines that competed over the weekend.

After a successful career as a Radio City Music Hall Rockette and a member of the Folies Bergere at the Tropicana Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Twila Stern decided to share her dance skills.

After a successful career as a Radio City Music Hall Rockette and a member of the Folies Bergere at the Tropicana Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Twila Stern decided to share her dance skills.

Mesa and Phoenix dignitaries, alumni cheerleaders and NFL players, local business and military leaders will strap on their dancing shoes and partner with Arthur Murray Dance Studios dancers at 7 p.m. Oct. 8 to try to raise $100,000 for a nonprofit outpatient clinic.

LOS ANGELES - Former "Cheers" mailman and popular Pixar Studios voice John Ratzenberger became the latest celebrity casualty Tuesday on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars." Though judge Bruno Tonioli said the actor's moves made it look as if he had "been to dance rehab," his footwork failed to impress fans.

International craze “Dancing With the Stars,” which takes mildly notable celebrities, pairs them with professional dancers and then asks them to strut their stuff for America’s approval, is back for a third season. It’s the largest field yet — 11 couples — and the show has taken more of a wacky, “Surreal Life”-type casting approach. Joey Lawrence? Tucker Carlson? Jerry Springer?

NEW YORK - During the week leading up to the opening of the new television season, "Dancing With the Stars" made a strong return, Katie Couric won again and Fox's "Happy Hour" appears anything but.