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Katherine Ochoa Is Cincinnati Ballet’s Fearless Virtuoso

April Deocariza

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Katherine Ochoa

Katherine Ochoa Is Cincinnati Ballet's Fearless Virtuoso

Training

A teenage ballet student, ballet coach, and interpreter are onstage, discussing a step. The dancer balances on his left leg with his right leg in degagé as the coach crouches dow behind him and looks up towards him, pulling the boy's sock. The interpreter stands in front of the boy and points to his knee.

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How Interpreters Help Dancers Succeed at International Ballet Competitions

Zoe G. Phillips

In a pink dance studio, a teenage ballet student and her teacher face each other and look at each other tensely while the other classmates stand and watch. The dancers wear black leotards, black ballet skirts, pink tights and ballet slippers, while the teacher wears a long-sleeved black sweater and ballet skirt.

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What to Do When You’re Not Connecting With Your Ballet Teacher

Sophie Bress

Christina Johnson, wearing black yoga pants and black tank top, stands next to a young ballerina executing a piqué first arabesque on pointe. The dancer wears a blue-and-white patterned leotard, pink tights and pink pointe shoes.

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Perfect Your Piqué Arabesque With Christina Johnson

Amy Brandt

Four young ballet dancers in practice clothes, two women and two men, huddle around a mobile phone at a theater.

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What’s Good Etiquette for Sharing Summer Intensive Audition Results?

Katie Slattery

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Career

A large group of men and women pose for a photo in a theater lobby.

Career

How Ballet Companies Are Drawing In New Audiences

Linnea Swarting

Career

Diablo Ballet’s Fiona Hutchens Shares Her Experience as a Hard of Hearing Dancer

Minnie Lane

Maya Schonbrun, a fair-skinned dancer with brown hair in a bun, sits on a gray marley floor in front of a mirror. She wears and gray Taco Bell sweatshirt and black sweats. The contents of her dance bag are laid in front of her.

Career

Inside Maya Schonbrun’s Dance Bag

Catie Robinson

Sae Eun Park, wearing a white peasant dress with a brown bodice, stands in b plus with her right arm raised and her left hand on her left hip, holding her skirt. She smiles out to the audience as a corps of male and female dancers in Spanish-style costumes pose behind her in celebration.

Career

Paris Opéra Ballet Étoile Sae Eun Park on Learning to Follow Her Heart

Amy Brandt

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Health & Body

A teenager looking at a bowl of cereal with an attitude of dislike.

Health & Body

Ask a Dance Dietitian: I’m Not Hungry During the Day, but Starving at Night. Help!

Rachel Fine, MS, RD, CSSD, CDN, CEDS-C

A dancer in pink tights and blue leotard in a lunge, with the front leg bent and back leg straight. Both feet are flat on the floor. The background is a green curtain and gray marley floor.

Cross-Training

4 Quick Calf and Ankle Exercises to Prepare for Pointework

Catie Robinson

In a large ballet studio, two lines of dancers stand on opposite sides of the floor in b-plus, one arm raised in the air to emulate a flamingo's neck and head.

Health

In Pointe Shoes for Hours? Here’s How to Deal With That Nagging Foot Pain.

Jennifer Heimlich

A ballerina is shown from the chest up sitting on floor in studio to rest. She wears a white tutu and looks down at the floor, possibly sad.

Health & Body

5 Cognitive Distortions Potentially Getting in the Way of Your Dancing

Madeleine Purcell Corbett

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