Iggy & Roo

Reflections on Teaching Ballet BY SIOBHAN SEARLE TONARELLI Iggy and Roo … Igor Zelensky and Farukh Ruzimatov, affectionately and practically renamed by my family one summer many years ago when the two joined the ever-growing list of dancers I regularly referred to in our ballet discussions. Ballet was an inexhaustible […]

February 24, 2014  |  Read Article

Dear Diva: MOVE It!

By Emmaly Wiederholt She walks into the studio as if we’re all watching her, which, ironically, I am. This will be my third time taking this particular ballet class, and I’m starting to get a sense of who the divas are. It’s over 80 degrees outside, yet she dons heavy […]

February 13, 2014  |  Read Article

What Gives Ballet its Staying Power

By Andrea Thompson It’s ballet, man. Classical ballet stands its ground in the evolution of dance in the same way that classical literature, painting, and music maintain relevancy in their respective fields. Artists in each discipline have been busily innovating and inventing, creating entirely new approaches that actively rebel against […]

February 10, 2014  |  Read Article

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