by Claudia Bauer | Nov 5, 2019 | Career, Training, Trending
“I was living my dream, but I wasn’t happy,” recalls Alexandra Pullen. Since starting ballet at age 5, the Chicago native aspired to join American Ballet Theatre and dance the roles her mother, Ellen Krafft, had performed there a generation before....
by Alexandra Pullen | Oct 17, 2019 | Career, Training
This is the second in a series of articles this month about ballet siblings. My mom was in the corps de ballet at American Ballet Theatre. A generation later, so was I. As if that’s not enough for one family, my younger sister Isabella Shaker dreams of following...
by Candice Thompson | Oct 12, 2016 | Career, Higher Ed
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2016 issue of Pointe. Upon high school graduation, dancers are often forced to choose between going to college or pursuing a career right away. Since a dancer’s professional life is short, many who put...