Summer Study

In a large dance studio, a class of teenage, female ballet students practe at portable barres. they wear leotards of various solid colors, tights, and ballet slippers, as well as numbers pinned to their midriffs. they stand with their right hand on the barre and extends their left legs in front of them, with their left arm held in second position.

Summer Study

Audition Etiquette: 8 Reminders for the Big Day

Amy Brandt

In a ballet studio, two students fondu devant at the barre as Jeff Rogers stands between them and cues their port de bras.

Summer Study

How to Handle Stressful Audition Moments, From Adagio to Fouettés

Kyra Laubacher

Young ballet students in black leotards and footless tights, do a grand plié in second position and cross their forearms in front of their chests.

Summer Study

Learning New Dance Genres at Your Summer Intensive? Here’s How to Have an Open Mind

Amy Brandt

Three teenage girls take a ballet class in a large dance studio. They are showing from the thigh up doing a tendu derriere effacé at the barre with their arm in second arabesque. They wear black leotards and pink tights.

Summer Study

Managing Homesickness at Your Summer Program

Gavin Larsen

A group of adult dancers in practice clothes listen to a teacher give a correction. Four dancers watch in the background, while the male teacher points to his hip in correcting the female adult student. Another woman marks the exercise to his right.

Summer Study

How to Prep for Your Adult Summer Intensive

Lindsay Martell

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

Adult 2025 Summer Intensives Are Around the Corner. Are You Ready?

Lindsay Martell

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

Summer Study

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.

Summer Study

How to Approach Summer Intensives If Your Last One Was Disappointing

Gavin Larsen