by Suvi Honkanen | Feb 21, 2021 | Career, Company Life, Instagram, Training
As a ballet student, I distinctively remember being told that to survive ballet as a profession, one must be exceptionally thick-skinned and resilient. I always assumed it was because of the physically demanding nature of ballet: long rehearsal hours, challenging and...
by Rachel Hellwig | Nov 5, 2020 | Career, Company Life
During his second year at Cincinnati Ballet, Taylor Carrasco learned he would be second-cast Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet. “I wasn’t yet a corps member, so it was especially exciting,” he remembers. In rehearsals, however, he began to feel...
by Kathleen McGuire | Nov 1, 2020 | Career, Instagram, Training, Wellness
“I was told when I was a young teenager that I had the worst pirouette my teacher had ever seen,” remembers New York City Ballet principal Lauren Lovette. The statement was made lightheartedly, and Lovette laughed at the time. “The whole class...
by Rachel Hellwig | Oct 12, 2020 | Career, Health & Body, Instagram
Editor’s note: Last week in a viral YouTube video, Kathryn Morgan shared that she decided to leave Miami City Ballet, where she was a soloist, after she was taken out of roles because of her body. In our Fall 2020 issue, we spoke with Morgan about the experience...
by Madeleine Purcell | Jun 23, 2019 | Career, Training, Wellness
As an aspiring or professional dancer, whose voice do you hear the most in your head? While you may think it’s the voice of your teacher, ballet master or director, or perhaps even your friends and colleagues, it’s most likely your own. Even when...