by Hannah Foster | Aug 10, 2023 | Pointe+, Summer Study, Training
You’ve just had the best summer ever at your ballet intensive. You got to explore a new city, form new friendships, and make technical breakthroughs without any pesky homework assignments distracting from your 24/7 dance immersion. For five weeks, it felt like what...
by Gavin Larsen | Jun 26, 2023 | Health & Body, Pointe+, Summer Study, Training
Sarah Whitehead, now a dancer with Ballet Tucson, remembers the sinking feeling of getting an injury during a summer intensive. As a teenager hoping to land a spot in Pacific Northwest Ballet’s year-round Professional Division program, she felt pressure to dance to...
by Katie Slattery | Jul 13, 2022 | Summer Study, Training
LeeAnaca Moore, a conservatory student at Florida Ballet, has a busy summer ahead. She’ll be attending the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Summer Program for three weeks, followed by a four-week summer intensive at Philadelphia Ballet. She then plans to stay on at...
by Kathleen McGuire | Nov 28, 2010 | Summer Intensive Survival, Summer Intensives, Training
This story originally appeared in the December 2010/January 2011 issue of Pointe. As a young student at a small ballet school in upstate New York, I was obsessed with getting into the School of American Ballet. From the age of 10, I entered class each day with the...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
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...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
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,...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
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...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
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.”...