by Sponsored by Houston Ballet Academy | Dec 16, 2022 | From Our Sponsors, Summer Study, Training
Lauren Anderson saw Eric Best dance for the first time in the summer of 2019. Then 15 years old, the Indianapolis native was in Los Angeles for a Debbie Allen Dance Academy intensive, where Anderson, Houston Ballet’s legendary,...
by In Memoriam | Sep 28, 2022 | Profiles
On July 25, 2022, Clara Cravey Stanley, a former dancer with Harkness Ballet and Ballet de Caracas and the longtime head of the Houston Ballet Academy, passed away at the age of 72. She was a loving wife, aunt, stepmother and grandmother. Clara Cravey...
by Sponsored by Houston Ballet Academy | Dec 1, 2021 | From Our Sponsors, Summer Study, Training
“Visibility is currency,” says Harper Watters, soloist with the Houston Ballet. It’s a lesson he learned early in his career: Find a place where you feel seen—as both an athlete and an artist—and where teachers get to know you and you get to know them. As a teenager,...
by Amy Brandt | Aug 14, 2018 | News, Training
“Who here is terrified of choreographing?” It was a question posed by Pacific Northwest Ballet School teacher Eva Stone five weeks ago, sitting on the floor among her class of female summer intensive students. “Almost all of them raised their hand,...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Nov 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Today the Pennsylvania Ballet’s board of trustees announced the appointment of Shelly Power as its new executive director. Having been involved in the five-month international search, company artistic director Angel Corella said in a statement released by PAB...
by Gavin Larsen | Aug 3, 2017 | Training
Striving for higher extensions, more turnout and bigger jumps may be at the top of your agenda in daily class. But what about those finer points of your technique, the subtleties that make a dancer really shine? They need just as much of your attention, and letting...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Aug 29, 2016 | News
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2016 issue of Pointe. In September, former Houston Ballet Academy director Shelly Power will take up her post as Prix de Lausanne’s first dual artistic director and CEO—just in time for the...
by Kathleen McGuire | May 31, 2014 | Company Life
Students at the Houston Ballet summer intensive (photo by Cameron D.) Jane Rehm was a top dancer at her studio in Toledo, Ohio, so it was a shock when she arrived at American Ballet Theatre’s summer intensive at 14 and was placed in the lowest level. “I didn’t...