by Hannah Foster | Feb 12, 2019 | Training
Last Saturday night, I had a balletic epiphany. I wasn’t in a mirrored studio taking class or even in a theater watching a performance. This luminous ray of understanding beamed into—wait for it—the basement of a math museum. The National Museum of Mathematics...
by Hannah Foster | Feb 6, 2018 | Career, Profiles
“I’m quitting dance.” Freelance dancer Merritt Moore has said this twice: before a high school year abroad, and after a year away from Harvard University to dance with Zurich Ballet. Luckily, the statement didn’t stick, and Moore has...
by Katherine Beard For Dance Spirit | Sep 5, 2017 | Just for fun
For the past decade, Merritt Moore has been living a double life as both a professional ballerina and a quantum physicist. While dancing with Zurich Ballet and Boston Ballet, she received her undergrad degree from Harvard in physics, and she’s currently pursuing...