by Jennifer Heimlich for Dance Magazine | Mar 11, 2026 | News, The Latest
By the time dance photographer Gene Schiavone retired in 2020, he had hundreds of thousands of images sitting on his hard drives, gathering virtual dust. He’d been American Ballet Theatre’s staff photographer for 20 years, and captured photos of ballet students and...
by Lilliana Miller | Dec 2, 2025 | The Latest
Nutcracker season is here, and, dancers, let’s be honest: Between class, rehearsals, fittings, and run-throughs (not to mention all of those pointe shoes ribbons to sew), we don’t have infinite free time to spend on holiday shopping. So we’re making it easy with some...
by Sophie Bress | Sep 10, 2024 | News, The Latest
Royal Ballet School alum turned English teacher Lucy Ashe draws from both aspects of herself in her writing. Her love for ballet, as well as her command of the English language, shine in her latest novel, The Sleeping Beauties (Union Square & Co.). Set for a...
by Katherine Beard | Aug 30, 2024 | News, The Latest
Many stars of the dance world have shared their journeys through books, chronicling their glamorous or fairytale-like rise from student to premier ballet dancer. Rarely, if ever, do we read stories from the corps de ballet, despite the fact that the majority of ballet...
by Martha Anne Toll | Apr 17, 2024 | News, The Latest
Ballet-book lovers are in for a treat this spring with the release of Karen Valby’s The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History (Penguin Random House, $29). Valby’s book, out April 30,...
by Emma Love Suddarth | Nov 9, 2023 | News, The Latest
Miriam Landis has worn a lot of hats: Dancer at Miami City Ballet. Stanford graduate with a BA in English. Assistant editor in New York City. Ballet teacher in Seattle. And now, three-time author. Following her two previous books—Girl in Motion and Girl on Pointe,...
by Martha Anne Toll | Apr 12, 2022 | News, The Latest
Toni Bentley reached ballet’s heights as part of the last group of New York City Ballet dancers to work with George Balanchine. Even before a hip injury forced her into early retirement, she had penned Winter Season: A Dancer’s Journal, a beautiful take on daily life...
by Abigail Rasminsky For Dance Spirit | Dec 1, 2020 | News, The Latest
The pilot of Netflix’s dance-centric series “Tiny Pretty Things”—based on the YA novel by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton—will leave you breathless. It touches on, well, everything: love, murder, racism, competition, jealousy, girl...