by Claudia Bauer | Jan 3, 2019 | Career
George Balanchine famously said “Ballet is woman.” He should have added that ballet is man, too, because it has long been defined by the traditional male-female binary. A formal challenge to the paradigm was launched in June, when Chase Johnsey was offered...
by Margaret Fuhrer for Dance Spirit | Jul 4, 2018 | Career, Training, Trending
World, if you haven’t already, meet Jay Ledford. She’s an incredibly gifted 18-year-old student at the Kirov Academy of Ballet with lines for dayyyyys. She’s also transgender. And describing her as inspiring is a bit of an understatement. Jay began...