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Mastering Finger Turns With Christopher Budzynski

Amy Brandt

Digital Cover Star

Jake Roxander

ABT's Jake Roxander Is Unstoppable

Training

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

A teenage female ballet student wearing a black leotard and pink tights is shown from the chest up, sitting on the ground with her knees tucked up and her arms wrapped around them. She looks down at the floor as two other teenage female dancers, blurred and sitting in the background, gossip and whisper to each other.

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Personality Clashes at Your Summer Program? Here’s How to Handle Them

Gavin Larsen

In a large ballet studio, six male ballet students in their late teens and early 20s are shown in two staggered lines practicing attitude derriere croisé with their left leg up. They all wear black t-shirts and tights, white socks and white ballet slippers.

Higher Ed

Inside K-Arts, the Prestigious South Korean School Producing Major Ballet Stars

Amy Brandt

Raymond Rodriguez stands at a ballet barre in front of a large glass window and shows four female ballet students a tendu effacé devant with his right leg as he holds the barre with his left hand. He wears a black t-shirt and black athletic pants, and black sneakers. The dancers are split, two on his left and two on his right, and watch him intently. They weara black leotards, pink tights and ballet slippers, and their hair is pulled into tight buns.

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Considering a Gap Year After High School? Here’s What You Need to Know.

Gavin Larsen

Career

Fredmann Vogel lunges forward onto hi s left leg, holding Elisa Badenes around her waist as she does a small arabesque on pointe on her left leg. She pushes her hips forward and leans her upper body against Vogel's, turning her face towards him so that their cheeks touch. She wears a 19th-century-style purple off-the-shoulder dress with a full skirt, while Vogel wears a black smoking jacket, black tights and ballet slippers, white shirt and black tie. They dance onstage in front of a loveseat and mirror.

Career

Stuttgart Ballet’s Elisa Badenes: “You Can Be Yourself and Break the Rules”

Amy Brandt

Megan Fairchild, in a white tutu and tiara, and Joseph Gordon, in black tights and tunic, perform a ballet pas de deux onstage. Three women in white tutus are behind them kneeling with their arms open. Fairchild does an attitude devant on pointe and rests her right hand on Gordon's extended right arm as he stands behind her in tendu, holding her around the waist with his left arm.

Career

A Day in the Life of NYCB Principal Megan Fairchild

Linnea Swarting

Catherine Hurlin, a ballerina with long red hair, sits on an ottoman and smiles at the camera. She wears a black leotard, white practice tutu and purple booties. Her dance bag and belongings are on the ground next to her.

Career

Inside Catherine Hurlin’s Dance Bag

Catie Robinson

Elise Kruger, wearing a beige, longsleeved turtleneck leotard, sits on a beach with her right leg in front of her in attitude and her left leg behind her in attitude. She frames her face with her left arm as it reaches over to her lifted right arm. Her hair is long and trails behind her. The ocean is in the background.

Career

Meet Elise Kruger, the L.A. Ballerina Hosting Psychology Education Pop-Ups

Zoe Phillips

Health & Body

A young man in a pink long-sleeved shirt smiles as he reaches toward a platter of cookies.

Health & Body

Ask a Dance Dietitian: Are Dessert Replacements Necessary?

Rachel Fine, MS, RD, CDN, CEDS

A female ballet dancer, shown with her back to the camera, poses with her arms up in a swan port de bras position. She wears a long-sleeved white leotard and a white pancake tutu.

Health & Body

How Threatening Is a Back Fracture to Your Ballet Career?

Stephanie Kramer

A young female ballet dancer in a tutu bodysuit and pointe shoes with beautiful feet makes an arabesque on a summer day on the terrace

Health & Body

Using Your Summer Layoff as a Mental Health Reset

Jess Spinner

Various sources of carbohydrates—bread, pasta, fruit, and more—on a white background.

Health & Body

Ask a Dance Dietitian: I’m Afraid of Eating Carbs!

Rachel Fine, MS, RD, CDN, CEDS

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