by Gavin Larsen | Jan 6, 2022 | Summer Study, Training
Auditions can be nerve-racking no matter what, but trying out for a summer program that once turned you down can feel especially daunting. It’s hard to present yourself confidently when a past “no” echoes in your head. But the reality of the summer-study audition...
by Madeline Schrock | Jan 3, 2018 | Ask Amy, Summer Study
I’m worried about my upcoming summer program auditions. I haven’t been able to jump lately because of an injury. How can I approach the auditions so they don’t think I’m lazy? —Shannon Auditions are stressful enough, and even more so when...
by Gavin Larsen | Nov 22, 2016 | Summer Study, Training
As a young student, Shea McAdoo’s classes at the Master Ballet Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona, were “strict, straightforward, very classical and purely Vaganova.” She appreciated the Russian rigor and precision, but when she was accepted to the...
by Kathleen McGuire | Nov 20, 2014 | Summer Study, Training
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre corps member Corey Bourbonniere got a late start in ballet, so he knew he needed to commit himself completely to the art to catch up. But at 16, when a...
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...