by Helen Hope | Sep 22, 2020 | Instagram, Profiles
This is Pointe’s Fall 2020 cover story. Click here to purchase this issue. Talk to anyone about rising contemporary ballerina Tatiana Melendez, and one word is bound to come up repeatedly: “Fierce.” And fair enough, that’s a perfectly apt way...
by Nancy Wozny | Aug 20, 2020 | Instagram, Training
Before Houston Ballet’s studios were forced to close down in March due to COVID-19, Jindallae Cho Bernard and Neal Burks were getting their first taste of George Balanchine’s Serenade. The dancers, members of Houston Ballet II, were learning the...
by Gavin Larsen | Aug 3, 2017 | Training
Striving for higher extensions, more turnout and bigger jumps may be at the top of your agenda in daily class. But what about those finer points of your technique, the subtleties that make a dancer really shine? They need just as much of your attention, and letting...