Ballet Overlaps

By Alana Isiguen Ah, ballet. I will always have a love for it. Ever since I started dancing, I have taken classes in ballet. Though it was always alongside other techniques, and it fluctuated as my ‘favorite’ style, ballet was my main focus until college. First it was the Cecchetti […]

February 3, 2014  |  Read Article

Parallel Lives

As I sit in this office, a letter to my ballet student self… By Wiebke Schuster A few years ago, I wrote a piece to my ballet student self as I was transitioning from that wonderfully mind-numbing feeling of complete exhaustion from dancing all day to sitting in an office. […]

January 27, 2014  |  Read Article

Ballet to Me

By Courtney King I recently washed my ballet tights and somehow they all ended up grey. I now have four pairs of pink, grey-tinged tights. Of course, this does not pose an immediate problem, but for the day I enter a ballet class, I do not desire that my tights […]

January 23, 2014  |  Read Article

Let One Inform the Other

By Angela Mazziotta If there is one thing I have pursued tenaciously and whole-heartedly, it’s that blobby identity crisis which bleeds freely over lines and seeps into genres with or without invitation; the dance form which loves to be called rebellious and shrugs when it’s misunderstood by the vast majority […]

January 16, 2014  |  Read Article

The Bunion: Swan Lake… or Pig Puddle

By Maggie Stack and Emmaly Wiederholt Ballet companies have been producing Swan Lake for the last couple hundred years. Instead of yet another rendition of Swan Lake to boo-hoo over, we’d like to present an alternative: the epic tragedy of a prince and his love for a pig gone awry […]

January 13, 2014  |  Read Article