by Hannah Chang Foster | Sep 26, 2024 | Pointe+, Training
Kellen Hornbuckle attended Houston Ballet summer intensives for six years in a row, being invited back on scholarship. But she didn’t let the artistic staff’s evident interest in her make her complacent. When she was finally ready to make the leap to leave her home...
by Kathryn Holmes | Nov 11, 2022 | Higher Ed, Training
Last fall, Cassidy Jarvis was juggling dance classes, Nutcracker rehearsals, AP courses and college applications. “It was chaotic, tiring and a bit stressful,” she admits. But now, as a freshman dance and psychology double major at Belhaven University in Jackson,...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 31, 2022 | Cross-Training, Health & Body
At first glance, a vertical rock face and a theater have little in common. But as diverse forms of cross-training become the norm for ballet dancers, some have turned to rock climbing as a way to supplement their in-studio training and condition their bodies for...
by Gavin Larsen | Dec 9, 2020 | Everything "Nutcracker", Higher Ed, News, Onstage
Earlier this year, anticipating the ongoing repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, University of North Carolina School of the Arts’ interim dean of dance, Jared Redick, started looking ahead to their annual Nutcracker performances. In May, he and the deans of...