by Helen Hope | Aug 23, 2020 | Career, Instagram, Profiles
New York City Ballet apprentice KJ Takahashi moves with elegance and precision. The ease, poise and speed with which he eats up space would make George Balanchine himself proud, though Mr. B might be surprised by the exact steps you can often find Takahashi...
by Pointe Magazine | Apr 8, 2020 | Nutrition
When Ballet West dancer Jordan Richardson Fry isn’t in the studio, she’s running her side business, Ballerina Baker, creating extravagant cakes for weddings across Salt Lake City. You can read all about Fry’s burgeoning business here. But you...
by Haley Hilton | Apr 8, 2020 | Career, Profiles
Check out Fry’s famous Beehive Cake recipe here. Ballet West corps dancer Jordan Richardson Fry has always had an affinity for baking. But it wasn’t until joining Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre in 2009 that she turned to the kitchen as a way to alleviate the...
by Hannah Foster | Jan 13, 2020 | Career, Instagram, Profiles, Trending
Most professional ballet dancers’ stories start the same way. They begin training at a local studio between the ages of 3 and 10, move to a pre-professional school and eventually enter a company. Lara Paraschiv did not follow this script. She began her serious...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 7, 2019 | Career, Instagram, Profiles
When Sanjay Saverimuttu graduated from college, he had no idea that a professional ballet career lay in store. After training on a pre-professional ballet track throughout high school, Saverimuttu earned a degree in biology from Stanford University. But college only...
by Gianna Forte As Told To Suzannah Friscia | Jul 9, 2019 | Instagram, Training, Wellness
Before I was born, my parents found out that I had a condition called an omphalocele. All of my organs were outside my stomach. I was rushed into surgery as soon as I was born, and they put a little patch in, pushed in my organs and sewed me up. When I was 1 1/2, I...
by Matthew J. Palm | Apr 23, 2019 | Profiles
Arcadian Broad has music in his mind. More and more, the Orlando Ballet leading dancer is making his mark behind the curtain—as a choreographer and composer. “I just hear things in my head that make sense for dance and music together,” says Broad,...
by Candice Thompson | Mar 18, 2019 | Dancer Spotlight, Profiles
No matter where her career has taken her, Ashley Mayeux has never strayed too far from her first love, ballet. Even while dancing for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Mayeux would try to fit in ballet class as often as possible. After two seasons with the modern...