by April Deocariza | Jul 20, 2021 | The Latest
2021 is quickly becoming the year of ballet-book releases, and New York City Ballet fans have double the reason to be excited. Two of the company’s leading women have chronicled their respective journeys in publications hitting shelves this year. Soloist Georgina...
by April Deocariza | Jun 30, 2021 | The Latest
In 2017, journalist Chloe Angyal was working on a story about the astronomically high rates of bullying among boys who do ballet. Angyal, who has an undergraduate degree in sociology, found the pages of her story kept ballooning as she began to explain to readers the...
by Karen Campbell | Jun 14, 2021 | The Latest
Before reading her excellent memoir, Being a Ballerina: The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life (University Press of Florida, $26.95), I’d never heard of Gavin Larsen. She isn’t a famous superstar ballerina with a first-tier company promising...
by Amy Brandt | Dec 17, 2020 | The Latest
Whether you’re looking for a last-minute gift idea or want to add to your own library, now is a good time to think about ballet books. Earlier this year we featured New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck’s new children’s book, Katarina Ballerina,...
by Avichai Scher | Nov 29, 2020 | News, The Latest, Training, Wellness
Most young dancers dream about how Jessica Flynn’s ballet career began. After performing several lead roles at School of American Ballet’s Workshop and winning the prestigious Mae L. Wien Award in 2002, she got an apprenticeship with New York City Ballet...
by Kathleen McGuire | Mar 29, 2020 | Career, Dance Magazine, Dance Teacher, Higher Ed, Profiles
Talia Bailes never imagined that her ballet training and her interest in early learning would collide. But Bailes, a senior studying global and public health sciences at Cornell University, now runs a successful non-profit called Ballet & Books, which combines...
by Laura Jaye Cramer | Aug 15, 2019 | The Latest, Wellness
Updated March 18, 2020 With daily life as we know it on hold, you may not be able to get your ballet fix from hanging out in the studio or going to the theater. But these long days spent at home are just begging to be spent neck-deep in a pile of good books. Whether...
by Amy Brandt | Jan 22, 2019 | Profiles
You know you’ve really made it when a children’s book has been made about your life. While San Francisco Ballet principal Sasha De Sola has long inspired audiences young and old onstage, she is now the subject of On Tiptoes/De Puntitas, a bilingual book by...