by Zoe G. Phillips | May 30, 2024 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
When American Contemporary Ballet principal Elise Kruger found herself stuck at home amid pandemic lockdowns, she signed up for an online psychology class. It’s a subject that’s always interested her. “There are so many basic psychology tips and tools you can...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Aug 29, 2017 | Health & Body, Training
Five years ago, an idea popped into the head of longtime Ballet West patron and practicing psychologist Dr. Aharon Shulimson: “Do ballet dancers’ brains function differently than the rest of us?” Shulimson and his wife Julie Terry, president of the...
by Virginia Johnson | Apr 1, 2007 | Company Life, Features
If you want to improve everything from performance to the time it takes to recover from an injury, look no further than your own head. The secret is a simple thing called imagery, or imaging, and it is something that you already use all the time. “Everyone uses...
