by Claudia Bauer | Aug 17, 2020 | Audition Advice, Career, Instagram, Training
The COVID-19 pandemic may have paused life as we know it, but the ballet world is still turning. Schools and companies are finding ways to move forward, and this spring many accepted full-time students, awarded scholarships and hired artists via online auditions....
by Avichai Scher | Aug 11, 2020 | Career, Company Life, News
Let’s be frank: No one knows what’s ahead for the performing arts in the U.S. With COVID-19 forcing the cancellation of nearly a year of performances so far, including many Nutcrackers, ballet companies face a daunting path ahead with no roadmap for how to...
by Frances Solá-Santiago | Aug 6, 2020 | Training, Wellness
I was 4 years old when I took my first ballet lesson. My mom had dressed me in a pink leotard with matching tights, skirt and slippers. She drove me on a Saturday morning to a ballet academy in downtown Caguas, the town in Puerto Rico where I grew up. I don’t...
by Nancy Wozny | Aug 3, 2020 | News
By Nancy Wozny For Dance Magazine Six years after shuttering his popular dance troupe Trey McIntyre Project, its eponymous founder is relaunching the company as a conduit for digital dance films, with a project called FLTPK. “It’s not a company of...
by Laura Cappelle | Jul 30, 2020 | Career, News, The Latest
“Can you caress the wall?,” Annabelle Lopez Ochoa said, frowning to get a better sense of the dancers’ living room on her screen. It was April, and the contemporary ballet choreographer was trying something new. Together with two dancers from the...
by Lydia Murray For Dance Magazine | Jul 29, 2020 | News, Profiles, The Latest
Last month, a photo of two 14-year-old Black ballerinas—Ava Holloway and Kennedy George—dancing on Richmond, Virginia’s Robert E. Lee statue lit up social media as Black Lives Matter protests seared through the U.S. The dancers, clad in all black,...
by Cory Stieg For Dance Magazine | Jul 16, 2020 | Health & Body, The Latest, Wellness
From oversized mouse heads in The Nutcracker to Jabbawockeez masks, most dancers have experience performing with restrictive costumes or headpieces. But as we transition from taking class at home during the COVID-19 pandemic to sharing a studio with others, masks...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jul 14, 2020 | Profiles, The Latest, Viral Videos
Have you ever wished you could pull back the curtain and watch some of our country’s most beloved ballerinas being coached? With the coronavirus pandemic keeping theaters closed for the foreseeable future, NYCC has moved its popular Studio 5...
