by Daniel Applebaum For Dance Teacher | Sep 3, 2020 | News
Aesha Ash is obsessed with movement. After training at the School of American Ballet and dancing with New York City Ballet, she traveled the world with Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet and Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. Ash spent that...
by Ilena Peng | Jul 8, 2020 | Dance Spirit, News, Profiles, The Latest
When School of American Ballet student Alexandra de Roos was 8 years old, she placed a collection box at her dance studio for others to donate their gently used dancewear. De Roos, now 17, has since turned that single collection box into a nonprofit organization that...
by Sophie Robertson For Dance Spirit | Mar 3, 2020 | Technique, Training
As a teacher and choreographer, George Balanchine—founder of the School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet—finessed even the smallest details. And in his technique, extra-special attention is paid to the carriage of the head, which is both unique...
by Margaret Fuhrer for Dance Spirit | Sep 15, 2019 | News
We’ve been dying to hear more about “On Pointe,” a docuseries following students at the School of American Ballet, since we first got wind of the project this spring. Now—finally!—we know where this can’t-miss show is going to live: It was just...
by Margaret Fuhrer for Dance Spirit | May 20, 2019 | News, Training
Do you have a “Strictly Ballet”–sized hole in your heart? Good news: There’s an upcoming docuseries, “On Pointe,” that just might fill it. The School of American Ballet is teaming up with Imagine Documentaries and DCTV for the...
by Lauren Wingenroth For Dance Magazine | Sep 6, 2018 | News
Former School of American Ballet student Alexandra Waterbury, 19, is suing New York City Ballet and her ex-boyfriend, former principal dancer Chase Finlay. Finlay resigned suddenly last week , and principals Amar Ramasar and Zachary Catazaro were put on unpaid leave...
by Marissa DeSantis | Aug 30, 2018 | News, Profiles
The dance community mourns another loss this week, as we learned former New York City Ballet principal Peter Frame passed away on August 30. Frame, who was 61, trained at the School of American Ballet and was a member of NYCB (his twin brother Paul danced with the...
by Amy Brandt | Aug 14, 2018 | News, Training
“Who here is terrified of choreographing?” It was a question posed by Pacific Northwest Ballet School teacher Eva Stone five weeks ago, sitting on the floor among her class of female summer intensive students. “Almost all of them raised their hand,...