Training

In a pink dance studio, a teenage ballet student and her teacher face each other and look at each other tensely while the other classmates stand and watch. The dancers wear black leotards, black ballet skirts, pink tights and ballet slippers, while the teacher wears a long-sleeved black sweater and ballet skirt.

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Sophie Bress

In a large, high-ceilinged dance studio with floor-to-ceiling windows, a group of adult ballet students stand behind their teacher as they all pose in tendu croisé devant. The teacher wears a black leotard, black workout pants, and dance sneakers, while her students wear various practice outfits and ballet slippers.

Summer Study

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Career

Relevétions: Virginia Johnson’s Essay From Pointe’s First Issue

Virginia Johnson

Christina Johnson, wearing black yoga pants and black tank top, stands next to a young ballerina executing a piqué first arabesque on pointe. The dancer wears a blue-and-white patterned leotard, pink tights and pink pointe shoes.

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Perfect Your Piqué Arabesque With Christina Johnson

Amy Brandt

Four young ballet dancers in practice clothes, two women and two men, huddle around a mobile phone at a theater.

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What’s Good Etiquette for Sharing Summer Intensive Audition Results?

Katie Slattery

A teenage ballet dancer wearing a white leotard is shown from the waist up, leaning her left elbow on a large window sill and resting her chin in her hand. She looks contemplatively out the window.

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How to Approach Summer Intensives If Your Last One Was Disappointing

Gavin Larsen

A teenage ballet dancer is shown sitting on the floor from the waist up. She pulls her knees up to her chest and wraps her arms around them, and bites her fingernail nervously as she looks out the dance studio window. Behind her, two female dancers in black leotards and pink tights sit on the floor and talk.

Audition Advice

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Amy Brandt

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