by Hannah Chang Foster | Jun 2, 2025 | Pointe+, Profiles, Training
While the average teenage dance student’s nightly to-do list might include stretching and homework, 16-year-old Nily Samara’s has a healthy dose of number crunching, teaching, and emailing everyone from dancewear manufacturers to journalists to dance-store owners....
by Ilena Peng | Jul 8, 2020 | Dance Spirit, News, Profiles, The Latest
When School of American Ballet student Alexandra de Roos was 8 years old, she placed a collection box at her dance studio for others to donate their gently used dancewear. De Roos, now 17, has since turned that single collection box into a nonprofit organization that...
