by Gavin Larsen | Dec 20, 2022 | Audition Advice, Pointe+, Training
For most dancers, technique class is a familiar daily routine. But dancing in an unfamiliar setting can really throw you for a loop. Whether you’re taking a crowded open class, a mixed-level class at your studio, or auditioning via company class, you need to be able...
by Amy Brandt | Apr 16, 2018 | News, Profiles
You can find Tiler Peck just about anywhere these days—onstage at New York City Ballet, in commercials, on “The Ellen Degeneres Show.” And let’s not forget starring in 2014’s Little Dancer, a musical that followed the creation of Edgar...
by Natalia Boesch | Dec 7, 2017 | Technique, Training
Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet’s founding artistic director Marcia Dale Weary shares how she coaches renversés of sigh-inducing beauty. Practice it slowly: To help her students tackle renversé, Marcia Dale Weary first gives it in adagio. Take a développé to...
by Natalia Boesch | Nov 7, 2017 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
You’ve gone from Clara to Sugar Plum in one place. What made that possible? I was lucky to grow up here, in a school that fed directly into a company, so as a child I could visualize exactly what I wanted. I think my career is due in part to being aware of how...
by Gavin Larsen | Jun 11, 2017 | Training
Deep down, Dara Oda knew she wasn’t ready. Despite 15 years of solid training at the School of DanceWest Ballet near her hometown outside of Chicago, by the end of high school she realized she still didn’t have the technique or maturity for a realistic...
by Joseph Carman | May 31, 2016 | Career
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2016 issue of Pointe. New York City Ballet principal dancer Lauren Lovette, a prolific user of Instagram, discovered she had an eager following of aspiring ballerinas while guest teaching at Manhattan Youth Ballet and...