by Kyra Laubacher | Sep 1, 2020 | Career, Company Life
This is one of a series of articles following one young dancer as she starts her career in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. When I pictured my professional performance debut, I hadn’t anticipated dancing on my family’s washing machine for a...
by Katie Slattery | May 20, 2020 | Career, Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Training
Ethan Ahuero was having a good year: he was in his first season dancing with Kansas City Ballet II and had been presented with the opportunity to choreograph on the second company. “The day before we shut down I had a rehearsal, and I was so happy,” Ahuero...
by Maggie Boggs | May 6, 2020 | Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Training
You’ve been dancing in self-isolation for five, maybe six, weeks now. The novelty has worn off, and you’re daydreaming about your long-anticipated homecoming to a studio filled with moving, breathing, sweating humans. If you had to pick what you miss most...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 31, 2020 | Dance Spirit, Profiles, Training, Wellness
On March 15, New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck announced to her 172,000-plus Instagram followers that she’d be teaching a live class from her family’s home in Bakersfield, California, where she’s currently waiting out COVID-19. Little did she...