by Jess Spinner | Jun 12, 2024 | Health & Body, Pointe+, Wellness
As a professional dancer, summer layoff is a very different experience from summers as a student, when you spent several weeks training at programs and intensives. Suddenly, you have much more time to fill on your own. Knowing what exactly to do with that time can...
by Jess Spinner | Feb 20, 2024 | Health & Body, Pointe+, Wellness
After years of preparation, you’re finally ready to put yourself out there and take the first steps in your professional dance career. Auditioning for trainee, second company, or full company positions is stressful. You’re in a room with competitive juices flowing,...
by Rachel Fine, MS, RD, CDN, CEDS | Aug 17, 2023 | Health & Body, Nutrition, Pointe+, Wellness
I’ve been attempting to shift my relationship with food, but, in full transparency, I am noticing weight fluctuations and gains. Is this normal? Is it possible to work toward a better relationship with food without gaining weight? —Katy Thanks for this...
by Jess Spinner | Aug 31, 2022 | Health & Body, Wellness
You’ll be hard-pressed to find a ballet dancer who has never worried about their body. The culture, the mirrors, comments from teachers, social media and peer pressure all play into a dancer’s concerns with looking a certain way or fitting into some perceived...
by Sponsored by Prima by StageRitual | Aug 18, 2021 | From Our Sponsors, Health & Body, Wellness
As stages and studios slowly begin to reopen, keeping up in the dance world’s “new normal” has required professionals to quickly bring their stamina back up to par, while also managing the physical strain and emotional toll that comes with returning to once-familiar...
by April Deocariza | Jan 13, 2021 | Instagram, Wellness
Royal Ballet principal Yasmine Naghdi had been gearing up to star as the Sugarplum Fairy in a December livestream performance of The Nutcracker when London went back into heavy COVID-19 restrictions. The performance was canceled, but Naghdi has been taking this...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Dec 20, 2020 | Health & Body, Wellness
If you find yourself with extra downtime this Nutcracker season, but counterintuitively higher stress levels, you’re likely not alone. “COVID-19 has been this underlying baseline stress in the back of everybody’s lives. Whether you realize it or not,...
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...