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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

On a stage with a grey background, one male dancer appears in a black jacket, pants, and beige ballet slippers. He has his left leg elevated in an attitude with the foot flexed. His arms are elevated and curved.

Career

Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Lucien Postlewaite Looks Back on His 23-Year Career

Rebecca Corey

A collage of three photos. The one on the lefet shows Diana Byer teaching a young woman as she executes a tendu derriere. The middle photos shows her helping a young girl in a red leotard at the barre in first position; the photo on the right shows her next to a young male dancer as they both do a tendu devant in croisé.

News

Diana Byer Is Bringing Back Ballet’s Long-Lost Steps With “Teaching Cecchetti”

Caedra Scott-Flaherty for Dance Teacher

Cassidy Cocke appears on stage in a flowing purple dress and poses on pointe with her right leg extended to the front and her left arm in fifth position. Her partner wears a tight purple unitard and wraps his arm around her to support her position.

Dancer Spotlight

Meet Cassidy Cocke, the Dancer Flexing Her Creative Muscles in Magazine Production

Lindsay Martell

Calley Skalnik grins, leaning forward to rest one hand on her front foot as she sits in a split wearing ballet warmups.

Cross-Training

National Ballet of Canada’s Calley Skalnik Works Out to Complement Repertoire

Emma Love Suddarth

Dr. Linda Bluestein stretches out kinesiology tape to apply to a patient's elbow. The patient, arm lifted with a slight bend, looks down at the tape with concentration.

Health & Body

What Should Ballet Dancers Know About Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes?

Kyra Laubacher

Career

La Scala Ballet Étoile Nicoletta Manni on Love, Family, and the Payoff of Hard Work

Amy Brandt

Megan Fairshild, wearing a white tutu with gold and bright blue trim and a sparkly tiara, does an Italian pas de chat towards stage left. She looks over her left arm with a smile.

Career

Megan Fairchild Reflects on Her 25-Year Career With New York City Ballet

Rebecca Corey