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Body Image, Revisited: What’s Changed Since Pointe’s Spring 2000 Issue?

Body Image, Revisited: What’s Changed Since Pointe’s Spring 2000 Issue?

by Amy Brandt | Jul 22, 2025 | Health & Body, Pointe+

Most ballet dancers have struggled with their body image at one point or another. It’s an issue that seems to forever plague the industry, which often idealizes a thin, lissome physique. In “Breaking the Mold,” her article in Pointe’s inaugural Spring 2000 issue,...
Aesha Ash Is Bringing Her Boundary-Defying Spirit to SAB As Its First Black Female Full-Time Teacher

Aesha Ash Is Bringing Her Boundary-Defying Spirit to SAB As Its First Black Female Full-Time Teacher

by Daniel Applebaum For Dance Teacher | Sep 3, 2020 | News

Aesha Ash is obsessed with movement. After training at the School of American Ballet and dancing with New York City Ballet, she traveled the world with Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet and Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. Ash spent that...
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