by Stephanie Kramer | Jul 8, 2024 | Health & Body, Pointe+, Wellness
Since she was 5 years old, Josie Walsh, now artistic director of the Joffrey Ballet School summer intensives in Los Angeles and San Francisco, had her heart set on becoming a ballet dancer. But as a 16-year-old student, she was diagnosed with two fractured vertebrae...
by Ashley Rivers | May 31, 2015 | Training
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2015 issue of Pointe. When she was a teenager, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet dancer Seia Rassenti’s training was about as classical as it could get. A full-time bunhead at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, DC, she...