by Pointe Magazine | Jun 23, 2013 | Company Life
Strategic snacking can help your body get through, and recover from, an intense dance class or rehearsal. But what foods should you be eating when? Before class, you need to fuel for maximum energy. That’s best achieved by eating a snack with a 2:1 ratio of...
by Pointe Magazine | Jun 16, 2013 | Company Life
With sun-up to sun-down summer intensive hours approaching, remember that there are some vitamins you can’t get from snacks and meals alone. Researchers have found that athletes who train indoors have low levels of vitamin D due to lack of sunlight. Vitamin D...
by Pointe Magazine | Jun 11, 2013 | Company Life
Many dancers arrive home and pull out their foam roller to ease those sore muscles after rehearsal. But could the need for a post-rehearsal rollout be avoided altogether? Studies show that if you want to help prevent injuries and ease muscle tension, rolling is most...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Oct 4, 2012 | Company Life
It’s the end of the week, and if you’re like most dancers I know, your body is sore and achy all over. Well-meaning friends and teachers will probably tell you to hop in an Epsom salt bath. But will that actually help? Maybe, but most of the benefit comes...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Sep 25, 2012 | Company Life
You’ve always suspected that you’re different from your civilian, non-dancer friends. It turns out that science can back you up. According to a study published in PloS Genetics, dancers show consistent differences from the general population in two key genes. One...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Sep 19, 2012 | Company Life
Blisters are like irritating little sisters. While they aren’t truly traumatic or career-threatening, for ballet dancers, they can be an almost constant annoyance, continually nagging at your toes with pinches of pain. So what’s a bunhead to do? Toe...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
When ABT went on a tour to Beijing last month, Pointe asked corps member Katherine Williams (our “Dancer Spotlight” subject from June/July 09) to keep a diary of her experiences. Here’s what she wrote: November 10: Our tour to Beijing is...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
The National Ballet of Canada launched its 2009/10 hometown season on November 13 by reviving its long-serving production of The Sleeping Beauty, first staged for the company in 1972 by former Soviet defector and ballet superstar Rudolf Nureyev. A capacity audience at...