Lucy Van Cleef

Lucy Van Cleef is a dance and culture writer based in Berlin. After graduating from the School of American Ballet, she danced professionally in the United States, Denmark, and Germany. She has contributed to Pointe, Dance, Playbill, and Dance Europe.

A male and female dancer embrace as a group of dancers encircle them onstage. The women wear long Romantic-style tutus and pointe shoes while the men wear Scottish kilts and jackets with tartans across the front.

Career

Royal Danish Ballet Merges Past With Present

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Tamas Detrich teaches class in a large ballet studio full of professional dancers. He holds his left arm out in second position and looks out over it, while touching his chest with his right hand to demonstrate an open feeling. He wears a black shirt with the words Stuttgart Ballet on it in white, a dark, unzipped hoodie sweatshirt, and blue sweatpants.

Career

Stuttgart Ballet Channels the Past, Present and Future

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Antonio Casalinho stands in a wide stance and holds Margarita Fernandes by the waist with both hands, looking at her and smiling. She is in retiré with her right leg up, leaning slightly to the left. She wears a green leotard and patterned green and black skirt and pink tights and shoes, and looks at Casalinho with a bright smile, her left arm hanging down at her side and her right hand touching her leftt shoulder. Casalinho is shirtless and wears black tights and black ballet slippers.

Digital Cover Star

António Casalinho and Margarita Fernandes Are Thrilling Audiences at Bayerisches Staatsballett and Beyond

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In a large dance studio, seven teenage dance students, all women, pose at the barre aganst the wall in an ecarté derrierre with their right leg up and their left hand on the barre. They all wears a drak blue leotard and short ballet skirt, pink tights and pink pointe shoes.

Training

Thinking About Training Abroad? Here Are Some Factors to Consider

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Rebecca Stewart, wearing a burgundy leotard and tutu, and pink tights and point shoes, poses in a croise arabesque on pointe while her partner, a teenage boy, holds onto her waist from behind. The boy dancer wears a gray t-shirt and tights, and white socks and ballet slippers. They dance in a large ballet studio and both smile towards the camera.

Training

A Day in the Life at London’s Royal Ballet School

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In a dance studio with large, industrial windows, Calvin Royal III performs an arabesque allongé with his right leg and arm raised. He wears blue tights, a dark tank top and white socks and ballet slippers, and looks out towards the front of the room.

Career

The Dancers Who Inspired Me: 4 Ballet Stars Reflect on Their Childhood Idols

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Higher Ed

My 12-Year Journey to a Bachelor’s Degree While Dancing Professionally

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Company Life

Chloé Lopes Gomes Talks About Her Recent Court Settlement, and Her Hope for a More Inclusive Ballet World

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