Ballet

Misty Copeland

Dance Like Nobody’s Watching

Ballet

Ballet

More Misty Copeland. Because I follow her on Instagram and she always looks awesome in a skirt.

Break Dancing

Some NYC monks paying tribute to the Beastie Boys in Union Square. TBH, I’m not sure you should really do these moves in a skirt this floppy. I prefer stiff denim or corduroy for upside-down applications.

But can I just say: the matching sneakers are awesome.

 

Ballroom Dancing

I guess this one is a no-brainer, but I saw this in the window of a trophy store and had to snap a photo.

Ballet

Ballet is a very skirt friendly form of intense dance. I guess because it was developed in an era when the dancers would wear skirts past their knees as a matter of course (even though ballet was originally considered scandalous and low-brow.)

Ritual Dance

Skirts and dancing nearly  always go well together.

This is the Cham Ritual Dance.

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Cham Ritual Dance. Photo by Gerard Houghton for Core of Culture.

Breakdance

Tibetan monks breakdance to the Beastie Boys. Yes, all of that in once sentence.

Play Juliet in a Ballet

Play the Violin

Modern Chinese Dance

Photos from Shen Yun, the traveling Chinese Dance act. If that’s not a skirt, it’s pretty darn close.