by Hannah Chang Foster | May 24, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Training
Shattering glass is not a welcome sound before an onstage entrance, but it’s exactly what Colorado Ballet soloist Sarah Tryon heard moments before taking the stage as the first fairy in Sleeping Beauty’s prologue. A light bulb had burst from above. “We heard it and we...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 3, 2019 | Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Dance Teacher, News
Last month, dance writer Siobhan Burke tipped us off in Danceletter, her bi-weekly newsletter, to the fact that a ballet emoji was in the works, and we couldn’t wait to share the news with you. Since then, we’ve gleaned a bit more information, and are now...
by Josephine Lee | Dec 27, 2018 | Profiles, Viral Videos
Master pointe shoe fitter Josephine Lee of the California-based The Pointe Shop interviewed Royal Ballet of Flanders dancer Shelby Williams and her Instagram-famous alter ego, Biscuit Ballerina. First, watch Biscuit turn the tables and (hilariously) find the perfect...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 16, 2018 | Career, Profiles
Last fall, Instagram’s dance community blew up when an account titled Biscuit Ballerina started posting videos of an anonymous dancer doing laughably bad ballet. With a look of fierce determination, she would awkwardly make her way through well-known variations,...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 16, 2018 | Profiles
Last fall, Instagram’s dance community blew up when an account titled Biscuit Ballerina started posting videos of an anonymous dancer doing laughably bad ballet. With a look of fierce determination, she would awkwardly make her way through well-known variations,...
by Marissa DeSantis | Aug 16, 2018 | Just for fun
With their idea of pairing professional ballerinas and super-sweet pups, we didn’t think it was possible for Dancers & Dogs to get any better. But boy were we wrong. For their latest collaboration, husband-and-wife photography team Kelly Pratt Kreidich and...
by Pointe Magazine | Jun 10, 2018 | Company Life
With summer just around the corner, embrace your biscuits on the beach with Biscuit Ballerina! Enter now to win. <span...