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Summer Study

Battling Audition Nerves? Try These Pro Tips.

Amy Brandt

Digital Cover Star

April Watson

Digging Deep: Complexions Contemporary Ballet's April Watson Brings Her Whole Self to the Stage

Training

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.

Pointe+

How to Approach Summer Intensives If Your Last One Was Disappointing

Gavin Larsen

A teenage ballet dancer is shown sitting on the floor from the waist up. She pulls her knees up to her chest and wraps her arms around them, and bites her fingernail nervously as she looks out the dance studio window. Behind her, two female dancers in black leotards and pink tights sit on the floor and talk.

Audition Advice

Battling Audition Nerves? Try These Pro Tips.

Amy Brandt

A teenage female ballet dancer is shown from the back in a dance studio doing a devéloppé in croisé devant on pointe. She wears a black leotard and pink tights and faces a dance instructor, who coaches her.

Pointe+

Working With a Coach for the First Time? Here’s How to Make the Most of It

Gavin Larsen

Two male dancers, one is a rat costume and the other dressed as a Nutcracker, lunge towards each other with swords in front of a black and red backdrop.

Career

Costume Drama: How to Breeze Through a Stressful Quick Change

Amy Brandt

More Training

Career

Joshua Binowitz stands in front of a small airplane with one arm resting on it casually.

Career

Meet Joshua Binowitz, the Nashville Ballet Dancer Taking to the Sky

Catie Robinson

Skylar Campbell, wearing a white jacket with tails, white tights, and black boots, jumps up and tucks his legs slightly. He lifts his arms up and looks down towards his feet. Behind him, dancers in unitards stand behind trees.

Career

Skylar Campbell on Why He Avoids Labeling Roles as “Challenging”

Emma Love Suddarth

Ella Titus rehearsing George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®. Choreography by George Balanchine. © George Balanchine Trust. Photo by Alexander Izilieav

Career

Miami City Ballet’s Ella Titus Shares Her Daily Routine

Linnea Swarting

A male dancer wearing a gray wig, short turquoise coat, blue knickers, red socks and a blue cape, stands center stage and throws his arms up to present a gift on the fllor. He smiles towards the audience and his cape flies wide behind him. Other dancers in period costumes milll about behind him, watching.

Career

Sensory-Friendly and Relaxed Performances Make Big Impacts on Audiences and Dancers Alike

Dr. Elisabeth Pain

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Health & Body

Close-up of a ballerina holding one pointed bare foot propped up next to her other foot, in tights and a pointe shoe, at stage theater

Health & Body

The Biggest Foot-Hygiene Mistakes Ballet Dancers Make—and What to Do Instead

Jennifer Heimlich

Upset and distraught teen girl eating breakfast in the kitchen while her mother is doing chores

Health & Body

Ask a Dance Dietitian: If I’m Dancing Less, Should I Eat Less?

Rachel Fine, MS, RD, CDN, CEDS

A female dancer stands in tendu croisé derriere in fondu, arms in front with her wrists gently crossed. She is dressed as a swan queen, in a white pancake tutu and feather headpiece.

Cross-Training

Releasing and Reconditioning With New Jersey Ballet’s SeHyun Jin

Kyra Laubacher

A woman with an illness blows her nose in bed.

Health

Under the Weather? Here’s How to Decide Whether You Should Dance or Not

Jennifer Heimlich

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