Hannah Chang Foster

Hannah Chang Foster is a dancer and an arts writer based in Virginia.

Digital Cover Star

Quickfire Questions With November/December Digital Cover Star Zoila Peña

Hannah Chang Foster

Zoila Peña wears pointe shoes and a pink Romantic-style tutu with long mesh sleeves. She sits on the floor facing her right with her legs extended in front of her, ankles crossed, and rests her left arm across her thighs. She props her right elbow on her left forearm and touches her face with her fingers as she tilts her head to the camera and smiles.

Digital Cover Star

From Venezuela to Virginia: Zoila Peña Shines at Richmond Ballet

Hannah Chang Foster

Miriam Miller and Peter Walker dance a pas de deux onstage. Miller, wearing a black and white striped leotard with a red waistband and and white tights, does a penché on pointe facing stage left as Walker lunges next to her, holding her waist. Miller put her arm around Walker's shoulder and lefts her right arm up. Walker wears a gray and black unitard.

Cross-Training

Straight Knees in a Hyperextended World

Hannah Chang Foster

In front of a projected backdrop showing an upside-down Chinese temple, two dancers in long dresses face each other onstage in a deep fourth position. They lunge on their front legs and arch back, arms bent up and backward with chests wide.

News

Lady White Snake: A Chinese Folktale Comes to Life at Lincoln Center

Hannah Chang Foster

A tenage female ballet student in a black sweatshirt and sweatpants stands next to a vertical banner that says Ballet Bridges. Dance clothing and shoes are in organized piles on the floor in front of her, and a wardrobe rack full of costumes ub to her left.

Pointe+

This 16-Year-Old Dancer’s Nonprofit Has Gone Global

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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.

Pointe+

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

Hannah Chang Foster

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.

News

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

Hannah Chang Foster

Career

The Do’s and Don’ts of Performing Outdoors

Hannah Chang Foster