by Lindsay Martell | Jan 11, 2024 | Adult Ballet Students, Pointe+, Training
If your barre was bursting with bodies in class last year, you’re not alone. 2023 was a huge year for adult ballet students of all levels. Just ask Miya Hisaka, the head of the Adult Ballet Program at The Washington Ballet in Washington, DC. “Every single week I go...
by Rachel Hellwig | Oct 12, 2020 | Career, Health & Body, Instagram
Editor’s note: Last week in a viral YouTube video, Kathryn Morgan shared that she decided to leave Miami City Ballet, where she was a soloist, after she was taken out of roles because of her body. In our Fall 2020 issue, we spoke with Morgan about the experience...
by Frances Solá-Santiago | Aug 6, 2020 | Training, Wellness
I was 4 years old when I took my first ballet lesson. My mom had dressed me in a pink leotard with matching tights, skirt and slippers. She drove me on a Saturday morning to a ballet academy in downtown Caguas, the town in Puerto Rico where I grew up. I don’t...
by Kathleen Mcguire For Dance Magazine | Mar 12, 2020 | Health, News, Profiles, The Latest
Kathryn Morgan is on a mission to change the dance field. The Miami City Ballet soloist and March Dance Magazine cover star appeared on the “Today” Show on February 27 where she openly discussed the challenges of body image and mental health in dance. Two...
by Madeline Schrock For Dance Magazine | Feb 26, 2020 | Profiles, The Latest
Since making her triumphant return to the stage this season, Kathryn Morgan has been on a mission to share her story and inspire others. The Miami City Ballet soloist—and current cover star of Dance Magazine’s March issue—was profiled on NBC’s...
by Suzannah Friscia | Jan 27, 2020 | Career, Instagram, Profiles, Trending
A couple years ago, if you had told Kathryn Morgan that she’d be a soloist at Miami City Ballet, learning roles like the Firebird, Mercedes in Don Quixote and the Striptease Girl in Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, she would have said you were crazy. But last April,...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 31, 2019 | Profiles
We might be biased, but we think that ballet dancers are unusually good at Halloween. After all, they wear costumes for a living, are familiar with elaborate hair and makeup techniques and own leotards in most colors of the rainbow (the perfect base for any costume)....
by Madeline Schrock For Dance Magazine | Sep 5, 2019 | Profiles
When you hear names like Maria Kochetkova, Sutton Foster and Robbie Fairchild, you immediately picture flashes of them as the fully-formed, phenomenal performers they are today. But even when they were kids, they had a glimmer of their future star power, giving a...