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

Ballet is…

By Emmaly Wiederholt Let’s point our toes and get to the pointe: the topic on the table is good ol’ ballet – yes, that couple-hundred-year-old dance form we can thank Louis the XIV for inventing and the Nutcracker for perpetuating. Is ballet still relevant? Is it important to practice? Is […]

January 9, 2014  |  Read Article

Getting Good at Dance

By Emmaly Wiederholt Have you heard about Karen X. Cheng, who taught herself to dance in a year by video recording herself practicing dance each day which she then made into a time-lapse video that went viral? I hadn’t heard of her until recently when I was in the audience […]

December 9, 2013  |  Read Article

Everyone Should Dance

By Stephanie Salts In a farewell speech to the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance summer students and their parents, Summer Lee Rhatigan closed her thoughts and thanks with these abrupt few words, “And finally, I think everyone should dance.” It was funny because she wasn’t talking about people with coordination, […]

December 5, 2013  |  Read Article