She Said

BY WIEBKE SCHUSTER “It’s like throwing tradition back in a traditionalist’s face.” A recent reaction from me while ranting on about why, in an art form traditionally about women, it is still so hard to come by female artistic directors or women in leadership positions. When asked about that very […]

September 29, 2016  |  Read Article

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