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Moving Up a Level? Here’s How to Embrace Challenges and Stay Focused

Katie Slattery

In a large indoor ballet studio with a high ceiling and wooden beams, Juan Carlos Penuela teaches a ballet class. He faces the dancers with his back to the mirror as they pose in retiré.

Are You Gripping Your Quads? Here’s How to Beat the Habit

Kyra Laubacher

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.

Straight Knees in a Hyperextended World

Hannah Chang Foster

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.

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

Caedra Scott-Flaherty for Dance Teacher

A ballet teacher helps a student with her développé à la second at the barre. The dancer wears a purple leotard, pink tights and pointe shoes and holds her arm out to the side as the teacher holds her foot.

Irene Hogarth-Cimino Breaks Down Glissade Assemblé for Elementary to Advanced Levels

Hannah Chang Foster for Dance Teacher

A trio of teen ballet students are shown facing a portable barre, with two on one side and one on the other, doing a demi plié in first position. They wear black leotards, short ballet skirts, pink tights, and pointe shoes. A teacher walks by and other dancers in practice clothes are shown in the background at various barres, doing the same thing.

Are You Using Your Plié Correctly?

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.

How to Handle Stressful Audition Moments, From Adagio to Fouettés

Kyra Laubacher

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

The Expressive Power of Hands

Katie Slattery

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