Training

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Malena Ani , wearing a cap-sleeved blue leotard, pink tights and pointe shoes, and a white practice tutu, poses with her right leg in tendu croisé devant. She stretches her arms diagonally and looks toward her left hand.

Career

What Did Petipa’s Original Choreography for The Sleeping Beauty’s Aurora Look Like?

Doug Fullington

Four teenage female ballet students talk and laugh together in a ballet studio. Two of them sit on a windowsill, while the other two stand. They all wear black leotards and pink tights, and their hair in buns.

Pointe+

Now You’re the Role Models: How to Lead After Older Classmates Graduate

Amy Brandt

Cross-Training

The Interconnected History of Pilates and Ballet

Catie Robinson

A young woman sitting in a chair focuses on the screen of her laptop while typing. The laptop rests on a tabletop.

Pointe+

The Pros and Cons of Online and In-Person High School for Ballet Students

Kyra Laubacher

Two barefoot, female dancers perform a contemporary pas de deux on a darkened stage. One dancer bands backwards into a deep hinge, while the other crouches behind her and supports her upper back with her hands.

Pointe+

Preparing Classical Dancers for Contemporary Repertoire

Barry Kerollis

A dancer creates an arm formation against a black backdrop, with her left hand lifted just above her curved right forearm.

Pointe+

The Expressive Power of Hands

Katie Slattery

Lynne Charles, wearing a white blouse with a white and tan striped sweater vest over it, adjusts the hand of a ballet student at the barre during a class. All of the dancers wear black leotards and pink tights and shoes.

Technique

4Pointe Founder Lynne Charles on Her Innovative Training Method for Pointework

Amy Brandt