by Amy Brandt | Jun 27, 2018 | Ask Amy, Summer Study, Training
I’m a young dancer, and I’ve been accepted to a prestigious summer program. I know intensives are a good way to get my name known in the dance world. How do I give a good impression without seeming nervous? —Lydia Relax! It sounds like you still have...
by Helen Hope | Jun 10, 2018 | Editors' List: The Goods
With the long, super-sweaty days of summer intensives fast approaching, there has possibly never been a better time to make sure your dancewear drawer is full—and fully equipped!—for whatever your training and performance plans might be. GiaNina Paolantonio on...
by Madeline Schrock | Jun 6, 2018 | Health & Body, Summer Study, Wellness
No matter where you’re training this summer, you want to make an impression with your artistry— not your B.O. You’ll be dancing (and sweating) more than usual, so follow these basic rules to help you stay healthy and keep embarrassing hygiene faux...
by Amy Brandt | Dec 12, 2016 | Ask Amy, Company Life
I’m in a second company and I’d like to use my summer layoff to do an intensive elsewhere. Is there a tactful way to bring this up to my director? —Simone This is tricky, and depends on your director. When I was a trainee, we were free to go elsewhere...
by Kathleen McGuire | Nov 21, 2016 | Summer Study
When Lilliana Hagerman auditioned for Orlando Ballet School’s summer intensive, she felt overwhelmingly intimidated. “The other dancers were all so beautiful,” remembers Hagerman, now a dancer with Kansas City Ballet. “I thought that if I made...
by Suzannah Friscia | Aug 31, 2016 | Company Life
September 1 marks the beginning of a whole new year—a new dance year, that is. You’re fresh from your summer intensive, getting back into a regular class and rehearsal schedule and learning choreography for a new set of performances. It feels like a clean...
by Ashley Rivers | Nov 20, 2014 | Summer Study, Training
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. When 17-year-old Rock School student Sarah Lapointe was auditioning for summer intensives, she faced a dilemma. By mid-January, she’d been accepted to a great school. But she...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Dec 9, 2012 | Company Life
In Pointe’s December 2012/January 2013 issue, three dancers looked back at the summer intensive teachers who helped inspire and inform their careers. Here, Tiler Peck remembers her own seminal summer teacher, as told to writer Joseph Carman. My first...