by Hannah Foster | Aug 10, 2023 | Pointe+, Summer Study, Training
You’ve just had the best summer ever at your ballet intensive. You got to explore a new city, form new friendships, and make technical breakthroughs without any pesky homework assignments distracting from your 24/7 dance immersion. For five weeks, it felt like what...
by Sophie Robertson | May 31, 2023 | Features, Health & Body, Pointe+, Wellness
Melody Mennite will never forget her first class at the newly built, state-of-the-art Houston Ballet Center for Dance in 2011. “ ‘I’ll chase you,’ ” she remembers saying to fellow dancer Allison Miller as they prepared for grand allégro. “We wanted to see...
by Kathleen McGuire | Jul 6, 2017 | Training
By the time Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre soloist Gabrielle Thurlow reached high school, she knew she wanted to pursue a professional ballet career. But to do so, she had to make the tough decision to leave her local studio in Buffalo, New York, to train at Pittsburgh...