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Training

How to Prep If You Want a Trainee or Second Company Spot Next Year

Hannah Chang Foster

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Katlyn Addison

Ballet West's Katlyn Addison Brings Thoughtful Curiosity to Every Role

Training

Kellen Hornbuckle, a young ballerina wearing a black leotard and pink tights and slippers, stands at a portable barre in the middle of a large dance studio and does a degagé à la seconde with her right leg. In the background, two of her classmates in the same attire do the same step at the barre against the wall.

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How to Prep If You Want a Trainee or Second Company Spot Next Year

Hannah Chang Foster

A woman's hand is shown holding a pointe shoe, pulling back the back of it to expose the shank. A red box cutter and pair of scissors lie to the right of her hand on a gray dance studio floor.

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How to Three-Quarter-Shank Pointe Shoes

Katie Slattery

Clifford Williams, Daniel Ulbricht, Chyrstyn Fentroy, and Amy Brandt sit in a semicircle. Williams holds a microphone and the others watch him speak.

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Watch: Pointe Live Classes & Conversations 2024 With Daniel Ulbricht, Chyrstyn Mariah Fentroy, and Clifford Williams

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A male and female ballet student practice finger turns in a large dance studio. Their teacher, wearing a black t-shirt, workout pants, and sneakers, kneels on the ground next to them and points to the female dancer's retiré position on pointe. The girl wears a light-blue leotard, white practice tutu, pink tights and pointe shoes, while her partner wears a white t-shirt, gray tights, and white socks and ballet slippers.

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Mastering Finger Turns With Christopher Budzynski

Amy Brandt

Career

Eight dancers wearing black bowler hats face upstage and jump up, their legs and arms spread in a V shape. They all hold black sport coats in their right hands. A lone male dancer dances upstage left, facing upstage. A row of spotlights line the top of the stage's bacdrop.

Career

Boise’s Ballet Idaho Is at the Frontier of Creativity

Claudia Bauer

A ballet dancer in a black camisole leotard and black trash bag pants sits on the floor and ties her pointe shoe ribbons in a dance studio.

Career

How to Thrive in a New Dance Environment

Jess Spinner

Chloe Misseldine and Michal Krčmář perform the Black Swan pas de deux onstage. Misseldine, wearing a black tutu with gold trim and a gold tiara, does a first arabesque penché on pointe with her right leg raised. Her partner, dressed in a black velvet tunic and white tights, stands behind her with his right leg in tendu side and holds her right hand.

Career

Chloe Misseldine Reflects on Guesting With State Ballet of Georgia

Caroline Tonks

Terez Dean stands in fifth position center stage, her arms at her sides as she faces directly front and gazes out into the audience. She wears a knee-length, short-sleeved red dress and pink pointe shoes. Behind her, in the shadows, five dancers stand in parallel, holding parasol umbrellas.

Career

For Smuin Ballet’s Terez Dean Orr, Small Companies Mean Big Opportunities

Emma Love Suddarth

Health & Body

Cross-Training

Open-Water Swimming With San Francisco Ballet’s Jacob Seltzer

Garth Grimball

A ballet dancer in a black camisole leotard and black trash bag pants sits on the floor and ties her pointe shoe ribbons in a dance studio.

Career

How to Thrive in a New Dance Environment

Jess Spinner

Cross-Training

Video Series: Here’s a Fresh Take on Addressing Anterior Pelvic Tilt

Nikki Bybee

A close-up shot of a dancer putting on a pointe shoe, on a black background.

Health & Body

Dancers, Here’s What to Know About Os Trigonum Syndrome

Jennifer Heimlich

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