What if Ballet splits her bunhead open…

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT; ILLUSTRATION BY TRACEY TURNER What if Ballet splits her bunhead open And the only place left to turn is out? Swans eat bugs and swallows swarm the lake And the only thing left to swallow is an atrophied tendu. And plie and one two three four… Are […]

October 30, 2014  |  Read Article

Measure the Music: Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite

BY JAKE PADILLA For the past two months, Stance on Dance has been focusing on ballet with perspectives from various dance artists and the occasional Bunion knocking famous ballets. To close all this ballet hullabaloo, let’s rock out to Igor Stravinsky’s Firebird. Starting at measure 206 from the finale of the Firebird […]

March 13, 2014  |  Read Article

Dancing with the Fullness of Myself

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Like so many little girls, I wanted to be a ballet dancer. This desire did not fade as I approached adulthood, but grew in intensity. College was mandatory, and let’s face it, I wasn’t strong enough technically to get into a ballet company or trainee program, or […]

March 10, 2014  |  Read Article

Ballet from a Beginner’s Perspective

BY EMILY DOLSON These days, whenever I find myself in socks on a hardwood floor, I cannot help stretching my toes over the smooth boards into the firm point of a tendu. Sometimes, I prance around my Brooklyn apartment pretending that I know more steps than I do, but putting […]

March 6, 2014  |  Read Article

The Saut-de-tude

BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT STARRING EMILY JONES; MUSIC BY JAKE PADILLA Ballet this, ballet that. Are you sick of reading all these perspectives on ballet and want to see some action? Emily Jones is the dancer for you. She pushes beyond the ballet syllabus and creates her own steps. Her dumBEST move? […]

March 3, 2014  |  Read Article