by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 16, 2018 | Profiles
Last fall, Instagram’s dance community blew up when an account titled Biscuit Ballerina started posting videos of an anonymous dancer doing laughably bad ballet. With a look of fierce determination, she would awkwardly make her way through well-known variations,...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 16, 2018 | Career, Profiles
Last fall, Instagram’s dance community blew up when an account titled Biscuit Ballerina started posting videos of an anonymous dancer doing laughably bad ballet. With a look of fierce determination, she would awkwardly make her way through well-known variations,...
by Kathleen McGuire | Jun 8, 2017 | Health & Body, Wellness
This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. Lying awake in her hotel bed in Washington, DC, the night before her audition, Richmond Ballet dancer Valerie Tellmann-Henning was tormented with anxiety. At 31 years old, she was...
by Gavin Larsen | Jul 31, 2016 | Wellness
Updated 10/31/22. This story originally appeared in the August/September 2016 issue of Pointe. Today, she’s a confident Miami City Ballet first soloist, but Emily Bromberg wasn’t always so self-assured. As a teenager, she withered under the weight of...