by Lauren Wingenroth | Jan 24, 2022 | Technique, Top Stories, Training
You know the feeling: You receive a correction, apply it, and it immediately makes your dancing feel easier and stronger. You probably also know the opposite feeling: You receive a correction that doesn’t feel right in your body, or you don’t understand what the...
by Kathleen McGuire | Jan 21, 2018 | Career, Health & Body, Training, Wellness
Early in Carrie Imler’s 22-year career with Pacific Northwest Ballet, she was excited to be cast in Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments. But immediately following dress rehearsal, she was removed from her role in “Melancholic.” “My...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Nov 21, 2017 | Training
“What if you could learn from the world’s best dance teachers in your living room?” This is the question that Dancio poses on their website. Dancio is a new startup that offers full length videos of ballet classes taught by master teachers. As...
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...
