April Deocariza

In this black and white photo, Iain Mackay, a ballet teacher, is shown working with a young female student as she poses in first arabesque. He stands behind her and uses his hands to lengthen her leg and front arm. Four other ballet students stand behind them and to their left, watching. The dancers wear pink tights, ballet slippers, leotards and ballet skirts. Mackay is wearing a black T-shirt and black athletic pants.

Pointe+

A Growing Number of Mentorship Programs Aim to Guide and Support Dancers

April Deocariza

A man in black pants, dress shoes, glasses and a light blue button down shirt stands at the front of the stage, facing away from the audience and toward the camera. He smiles brightly, arms lifted front with his hands open in a motion of gratitude.

News

Oklahoma City Ballet’s New Artistic Director, Ryan Jolicoeur-Nye, Discusses Reaching New Audiences and Taking Risks

April Deocariza

Sirui Liu and Joshua Stayton perform the grand pas de deux from The Nutcracker onstage. Liu poses in an attitude derriere on pointe, leaning off of her right leg and bending her upper body to the right as Stayton holds her waist with his right hand. She ewars a purple tutu, pink tights, pointe shoes and a tiara, while Stayton wears a white top with lacy collar, a red sash, red knee-length knickers and white tights.

Company Life

Nutcracker Tips for Surviving Double-Show Days

April Deocariza

Jennifer Grace, in a long white dress stained with fake blood, dances onstage in front of a dark gated garden setting. She has darkened eye makeup, messy hair and fake bloodstains on her face and hands as she sneers at the audience, mouth wide open as if to lick the blood off of her hands. Two pairs of dancers, one male and one female per pair, dressed in darker colors mimic her movement and are also covered in fake bloodstains.

News

Harnessing Halloween: Ballet Companies Are Using Classic Scary Stories to Attract Audiences

April Deocariza

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

Inside the Audition: At Isaac Hernández’s Despertares Impulsa, Mexico’s Young Dancers Try for the Royal Ballet School

April Deocariza

In an ornate, gilded room full of mirrors, Daniel Appelbaum, Georgina Pazcoguin and Tyler Haynes pose in floral-patterned costumes for Ballet des Porcelaines. Hanes wears a mask with a large, exaggerated smile and a tall hat.

Onstage

Reimagining “Ballet des Porcelaines,” a Lost 18th-Century Divertissement

April Deocariza

Ballerina Shiori Kase, costumed in a white nightgown, sits at a table onstage and writes a letter by candlelight. Clothes are strewn over the back of another chair close by.

Onstage

Tamara Rojo Presents Her New Adaptation of “Raymonda” at English National Ballet

April Deocariza

Yasmine Naghdi wearing a white tutu, tiara, pink tights and pointe shoes, poses in a low arabesque and opens her arms to second position. Behind her, Matthew Ballet, in a white shirt, black tights and black ballet boots, holds her waist and points his left foot out in tendu, and holds his left arm out in second. They dance onstage during a village scene, and dancers dressed as townspeople stand behind them watching them dance.

The Latest

New Memoir by Sabine Naghdi, Mom of Royal Ballet’s Yasmine Naghdi, Recounts a Ballet Parent’s Journey

April Deocariza

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