by Marissa DeSantis | Mar 27, 2018 | Career, News, Profiles, Trending
Nobody has a “perfect” performance every time they go onstage—not even the dancers at American Ballet Theatre. Despite knowing this, we tend to beat ourselves up enough over the tiniest of slip ups without having someone else pointing out our errors,...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | May 9, 2016 | Views
A beautiful pirouette is one of ballet’s most elusive elements. Sometimes you float through multiple rotations and sometimes you can hardly balance on one leg. Here are some of our best tips for nailing your turns, every time. Go back to basics. Make sure...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Mar 21, 2016 | Company Life
Fouettés are mysterious. When they’re on, they create a practically transcendental relationship between gravity and alignment, making everything feel effortless. But when they’re off, they’re way off. It can feel like you don’t know how to...