by Sponsored by Miami City Ballet School | Jan 28, 2022 | Summer Study, Training
Ask current Miami City Ballet corps member Juliet Hay to describe her first summer at Miami City Ballet School, and one word comes to mind first: “intense.” While that may sound obvious—aren’t all summer intensives by their very nature “intense”?—the word takes on...
by Gavin Larsen | Jan 4, 2018 | Summer Study, Training
Growing up in Michigan, Jessy Dick was used to her daily hour-long drives to the Grand Rapids Ballet School, where she trained. But when she started to think about summer intensives, a new problem emerged: Auditions for the schools she was interested in were even...
by Katie Rolnick | Apr 2, 2015 | Technique, Training
Updated 10/17/22. This story originally appeared in the April/May 2015 issue of Pointe. Growing up, Houston Ballet first soloist Allison Miller often heard teachers compare the feeling you have during pirouettes to a corkscrew. But then her teacher, Diane Partington...