How Orlando Ballet School’s New Director of Education Brings Out the Best of Ballet Training

by Sponsored by Orlando Ballet | Jan 7, 2025 | From Our Sponsors

Big changes have been afoot at Orlando Ballet School: In May 2024, Christopher Alloways-Ramsey joined as the director of education, a newly created position designed to heighten the school’s training and streamline its connection with the attached company. “There was...

Improvise and Survive: Making the Most of Onstage Bloopers and Mishaps

by Hannah Chang Foster | May 24, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Training

Shattering glass is not a welcome sound before an onstage entrance, but it’s exactly what Colorado Ballet soloist Sarah Tryon heard moments before taking the stage as the first fairy in Sleeping Beauty’s prologue. A light bulb had burst from above. “We heard it and we...

Space to Grow: These 5 Dancers Share How They Stretched Themselves During Their Second Company Years

by Candice Thompson | Jul 23, 2018 | Career

Receiving a second company or trainee contract can help bridge the gap from student to professional. Whether you make it into the main company afterwards or move on to another one, these years, if danced to the fullest, can be valuable to your life and career. Lillian...