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Taylor Naturkas: Bringing Strength and Star Power to Miami City Ballet

Guillermo Perez

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Taylor Naturkas

Bringing Strength and Star Power to Miami City Ballet

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Training

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.

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

Kyra Laubacher

In a studio, a group of students pose in first arabesque.

Audition Advice

When Your Summer Intensive Doubles as an Audition

Gavin Larsen

Dancers wearing black leotards and black skirts stand attentively in a studio.

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How to Adjust From Your Small Studio to a Big Summer Intensive

Rebecca Corey

A pile of variously colored pointe shoes.

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Extend the Life of Your Summer Intensive Pointe Shoes

Hannah Maria Hayes

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Career

On red carpeted stairs, a ballet dancer sits with her legs crossed and leans on her hands behind her. She wears a warmup jacket and purple trashbag pants with red socks. Around her are the contents of her dance bag

Career

Inside Riho Sakamoto’s Dance Bag

Catie Robinson

Career

How to Refresh Your Dance Wardrobe for Summer

Catie Robinson

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

Career

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

Amy Brandt

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Health & Body

Close up of the shoulders and neck of a young woman sweating profusely. She wears a white leotard and her dark hair in a ponytail.

Health & Body

What Dancers Need to Know About Dehydration

Jennifer Heimlich

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

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

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