by Kathryn Boland | May 14, 2024 | Pointe+, Training
In fall 2023, Boston Dance Alliance held a youth open-call audition. Fifty dancers showed up—one of them male-identifying. Gender imbalance is not uncommon in ballet, yet that ratio is particularly stark. Is this shortage part of a larger trend? If so, what’s caused...
by Patrick Frenette | Jan 12, 2020 | Career, Instagram, Profiles, Training
When I was 14 years old, I placed in Youth America Grand Prix’s final round and was offered a scholarship to the Royal Ballet School’s summer intensive. As overjoyed as I was, I couldn’t help but realize just how hard I’d had to fight to get to...
by Courtney Escoyne For Dance Magazine | Aug 22, 2019 | News
When the news broke that Prince George, currently third in line for the British throne, would be continuing ballet classes as part of his school curriculum this year, we were as excited as anyone. (Okay, maybe more excited.) This was not, it seems, a sentiment shared...
by Steve Sucato | May 10, 2018 | Profiles
One of Pennsylvania Ballet’s longest tenured dancers, soloist James Ihde is retiring from the company after 25 years. The Kent, Ohio–native began his dance journey at the Dance Institute of the University of Akron and The Rock School before joining...
by Amy Brandt | May 10, 2018 | News, Training
Updated on 08/28/19 “I never wanted to stop dancing, I just wanted the bullying to stop,” says American Ballet Theatre corps member Patrick Frenette in the trailer for Danseur, a new feature-length documentary about the social stigmatization young men face...
