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Last night, one of my lovely and inspiring adult beginner ballet students, who has just graduated to taking the intermediate/advanced class,...

Screenshot from the 2023 artEmotion  "Night to Remember" (I had difficulty remembering the choreography, sadly)... Which is why I...

A lot of things in dance are difficult, and a lot of things in ballet are hard to teach. But of all of them, turns are the hardest to do wel...

I have a love/hate relationship with December. End of the semester and no more student papers to grade, yay! Holiday festivities of all sort...

Ballet is about bodies. Right from its origins, this was an art form concerned with the presentation of a specific, highly curated vision of...

When I started teaching teen-adult beginning ballet last fall (after subbing and doing some occasional private group lessons for a year or t...

It's that time of year in ballet land when no matter whether you're in the big leagues or at the proverbial Dolly Dinkle School, the...