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Friend or Foe?: What to Do When Your Peers’ Behavior Changes Around Auditions

Kyra Laubacher

A close up of washing hands, with soap bubbles

Cold and Flu Prevention: Dancer Edition

Catie Robinson

Anxious About Stamina During a Grueling Ballet? Here’s How to Cope

Amy Brandt

Two dancers in short white ballet dresses perform onstage. The dancer on the right battements a la seconde, arms on the diagonal as she looks out toward her bottom fingers. The dancer on the left faces upstage and crosses one foot over, with arms passing across in front of her.

Let’s Talk About Breast Support in Ballet

Kyra Laubacher for Dance Spirit

A young ballerina lying down, thinking, on a stage floor. She wears a bright blue pancake tutu and a beige leotard.

How Social Cues in Ballet Can Affect Perfectionism

Kyra Laubacher

In a large ballet studio, dancers do an adagio combination with legs held in a la seconde, arms in second position. One dancer in the middle wears a blue shirt that says "Athletico Physical Therapy."

What Ballet Dancers Need to Know About Surgery

Kyra Laubacher

A group of dancers performing on stage stand enacting a scene at a dinner table. They wear vintage inspired costumes with the three men in suits and four women in dresses. They all raise a glass towards the center of the table.

Ballet and Addiction: 2 Industry Leaders Share Their Journeys to Sobriety

Linnea Swarting

A ballerina is shown from the chest up sitting on floor in studio to rest. She wears a white tutu and looks down at the floor, possibly sad.

5 Cognitive Distortions Potentially Getting in the Way of Your Dancing

Madeleine Purcell Corbett

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