by Haley Hilton | May 10, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Training
New York City Ballet principal Indiana Woodward remembers feeling equal parts nervous and excited during her dress rehearsal as Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty this past winter season. It’s a challenging role, and when she began the sequence of attitude promenades and...
by Amy Brandt | Jun 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
It was a hectic scene last Wednesday morning at the USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi. Inside a conference room at Jackson’s downtown Westin Hotel, strewn pieces of tulle, satin and other trimmings littered the floor, while the...
by Amy Brandt | Sep 24, 2014 | Training
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2014 issue of Pointe. Every four years, dancers from around the globe descend on Jackson, Mississippi, for the USA International Ballet Competition. The only IBC hosted in the U.S. (the others are held in Varna,...