by Kathleen McGuire | Jul 6, 2017 | Training
By the time Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre soloist Gabrielle Thurlow reached high school, she knew she wanted to pursue a professional ballet career. But to do so, she had to make the tough decision to leave her local studio in Buffalo, New York, to train at Pittsburgh...
by Kathleen McGuire | Nov 28, 2010 | Summer Intensive Survival, Summer Intensives, Training
This story originally appeared in the December 2010/January 2011 issue of Pointe. As a young student at a small ballet school in upstate New York, I was obsessed with getting into the School of American Ballet. From the age of 10, I entered class each day with the...