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Ballet and Basketball: A Conversation With Alonzo King and Golden State Warriors Coach Steve Kerr

What could ballet and basketball possibly have in common? That was the topic for an onstage conversation between Alonzo King, the founder and artistic director of San Francisco’s Alonzo King LINES Ballet, and Steve Kerr, the head coach of the 2022 NBA champion Golden State Warriors. As it turns out, “ballet and basketball have more […]

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Alonzo King and Steve Kerr sit in gray-blue armchairs onstage during a public interview. Between them on a small table is a large gold NBA Championship trophy. King wears a short, light-colored jacket and black pants and a gray hat, and clasps his hands together in front of his chest. Kerr, on the right, wears a dark sport coat, white button-down shirt, khaki pants and blue tennis shoes, and looks toward King with a smile.

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Ballet and Basketball: A Conversation With Alonzo King and Golden State Warriors Coach Steve Kerr

Claudia Bauer

A group of six ballet dancers, five women and one man, stand huddled together and smile towards the camera. The women wear black leotards and pink tights and the man wears a black T-shirt and black tights.

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Misty Copeland speaks into a microphone during a demonstration. She wears a purple T-shirt and black jeans and holds a piece of paper in herleft hand..

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A young female dancer, shown hips-up, stands sideways at the barre onstage for an audition. She wears a black camisole leotard and pink ballet tights, and her dark hair is slicked back into a low bun with a middle part. She extends her left arm in allongé out from the barre, looking out past her fingertips with a slight smile, eyebrows raised gently in concentration. She wears a paper number safety-pinned to the front of her leotard. Two other girls, dressed similarly, and a young male dancer in a white t-shirt, black tights, and white socks,complete the same motion in the background.

Training

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A group of 10 female students in black leotards, pink tights, and pink pointe shoes stand in two staggered lines of five in a sunny dance studio. They all pose in fifth position with their right foot in front and their arms in high fifth position, looking slightly to the right.

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Three ballet students dressed in white dancewear pose to make a trio formation. A female student stands in the middle on pointe with her right leg in developpé croisé devant. She holds the hands of two male dancers on either side of her; the one on the left poses in arabesque with his left leg up, and the one on the right poses in tendu derriere and holds her right ankle with his left hand.

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Career

In this black and white photo, Clara Cravey Stanley, wearing a black T-shirt and pants, is shown teaching a ballet class, bending at the waist to point to a teenage girl's right hip as the student practices a step at the barre..

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Lillian DiPiazza poses with two other dancers; they all lift their arms and hold hands, wearing calf-length pink dresses. The women wear their hair half up, half down and have a wreath of pink flowers in their hair.

Career

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Melissa Barak is shown from the waist up sitting in a brown leather chair with her hands clasped under her chin. She looks directly at the camera. She wears a black turtleneck and silver watch on her left wrist.

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Betsy McBride performs a grand jeté onstage during a performance of Don Quixote. She wears a blue peasant dress with a peach bodice and peach trimmings, and holds a fan in her raised right hand and a basket with her left.

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A dramatic moment in The Sleeping Beauty. Beautiful Aurora is in a deep sleep and the king, queen and others surround her with dramatic concern.

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How to Get Good Sleep Before—and After—Performances

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A young woman in a gray halter-top leotard is shown from the waist up in a brightly lit studio. She smiles widely at the camera and crosses her arms. Another woman in workout clothes stretches her left quadriceps and holds onto the window for support.

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What Is Body Image Resilience, and How Can Dancers Develop It?

Jess Spinner

A young woman with brown hair and tan skin packs strawberries into a clear zipper bag. She stands behind an island counter in a gray-toned kitchen. The counter is full of assorted fruit, sandwiches, and three other zipper bags of different sizes.

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Tigran Sargsyan and Petra Conti firmly grasp each other's forearms, arms crossed as they gaze into each other's eyes. Conti is in a low lunge, her right leg extended back with pointed toes.

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