Put Your Best Tendu Forward

Put Your Best Tendu Forward

  It’s a chilly winter day in New York, but inside 890 Broadway it’s stiflingly warm. Students stretch their limbs, eyeing each other nervously. This is, after all, a New York audition for American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensive. Riana...
Summer Intensive Audition Tips

Summer Intensive Audition Tips

A few weeks before the audition, write down corrections your teacher gives you in class to help you remember what you need to work on. If you have time, take a few extra classes. Take a good arabesque photo —one that’s in focus, centered and, most importantly,...
Student Opportunities

Student Opportunities

youngARTS Week What do soloists Sarah Lane, Kelly Myernick and Callie Manning have in common? Before rising through the ranks of American Ballet Theatre, Houston Ballet and Miami City Ballet, respectively, these dancers were finalists at youngARTS Week. Sponsored by...
Choreography Camp

Choreography Camp

When Brittain Jarrett Jackson arrived for his first summer at the Northwest Professional Dance Project in Portland, Oregon, he was 21 years old and, he admits, “a little set in my ways in terms of how I wanted to dance and who I wanted to dance with.”...
Choreography Camp

Summer Stories

Summer intensive study has become an integral part of training for most preprofessional dancers. Usually, it’s the chance to focus on and improve technique and even make new friends. Though unfamiliar styles of instruction and technique may be frustrating and...

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