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How to Prep If You Want a Trainee or Second Company Spot Next Year

Kellen Hornbuckle attended Houston Ballet summer intensives for six years in a row, being invited back on scholarship. But she didn’t let the artistic staff’s evident interest in her make her complacent. When she was finally ready to make the leap to leave her home studio in Virginia Beach, she felt pressure to use that […]

Hannah Chang Foster

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Ricardo Rhodes, Jessica Assef, and Daniel Pratt, three professional ballet dancers, perform a pas de trois onstage in front of a burgundy backdrop. Assef, wearing a light pink calf-length tutu with a burgundy sash, stands between the men, raises her left leg in développé a la seconde on pointe. She holds her arms out to the side, holding each partner's hand, and looks toward Pratt on her left. The men, wearing burgundy tights and matching velvet tunics, stand in a small first position and smile at Assef.

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Two Sarasota Ballet Dancers Look Back on Their London Tour and Royal Ballet Collaboration

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Ingrid SIlva, wearing a long-sleeved black shirt and green leggings, sits on the floor with her knees tucked directly underneath her and her hands on her hips. Her back is towards the mirrors in a dance studio, and she watches a group of dancers in front of her who are mostly out of view of the camera.

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Ingrid Silva Is Making Moves in Choreography

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In this black and white image, a large company of ballet dancers in rehearsal clothing form a circular shape and lay on the grass casually and look up towards the camera as it photographs them from above.

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New York Public Library’s Joffrey Ballet Exhibit Shows a Company Ahead of Its Time

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Michaela Mabinty DePrince wears a black leotard and jumps up in second position in front of a brown backdrop. She wears brown pointe shoes and places her hands on her hips. Her hair is braided and in a ponytail.

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In front of an emerald green backdrop, a female dancer in a white classical tutu stands in attitude derriere on pointe, supported by her partner, who lunges behind her and holds her waist. He wears a black unitard.

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London City Ballet’s Revival Brings 4 U.S. Premieres to The Joyce

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Kellen Hornbuckle, a young ballerina wearing a black leotard and pink tights and slippers, stands at a portable barre in the middle of a large dance studio and does a degagé à la seconde with her right leg. In the background, two of her classmates in the same attire do the same step at the barre against the wall.

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How to Prep If You Want a Trainee or Second Company Spot Next Year

Hannah Chang Foster

A group of dancers in graduation caps and gowns cluster together on a small staircase, posing and smiling triumphantly.

Career

How to Attend College While Dancing Professionally

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A woman's hand is shown holding a pointe shoe, pulling back the back of it to expose the shank. A red box cutter and pair of scissors lie to the right of her hand on a gray dance studio floor.

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How to Three-Quarter-Shank Pointe Shoes

Katie Slattery

Clifford Williams, Daniel Ulbricht, Chyrstyn Fentroy, and Amy Brandt sit in a semicircle. Williams holds a microphone and the others watch him speak.

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Artistic and Executive Director Kathleen Breen Combes Shares Her Daily Routine

Linnea Swarting

Ingrid SIlva, wearing a long-sleeved black shirt and green leggings, sits on the floor with her knees tucked directly underneath her and her hands on her hips. Her back is towards the mirrors in a dance studio, and she watches a group of dancers in front of her who are mostly out of view of the camera.

Career

Ingrid Silva Is Making Moves in Choreography

Amy Brandt

Eight dancers wearing black bowler hats face upstage and jump up, their legs and arms spread in a V shape. They all hold black sport coats in their right hands. A lone male dancer dances upstage left, facing upstage. A row of spotlights line the top of the stage's bacdrop.

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Boise’s Ballet Idaho Is at the Frontier of Creativity

Claudia Bauer

The cast of the Little Women Ballet gather around Jo March, who is seated and reading a book.

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Inside the Los Angeles–Based Immersive Little Women Ballet

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Health & Body

Cross-Training

Open-Water Swimming With San Francisco Ballet’s Jacob Seltzer

Garth Grimball

A ballet dancer in a black camisole leotard and black trash bag pants sits on the floor and ties her pointe shoe ribbons in a dance studio.

Career

How to Thrive in a New Dance Environment

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Cross-Training

Video Series: Here’s a Fresh Take on Addressing Anterior Pelvic Tilt

Nikki Bybee

A close-up shot of a dancer putting on a pointe shoe, on a black background.

Health & Body

Dancers, Here’s What to Know About Os Trigonum Syndrome

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