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Dancer: a novel
Title: Dancer Author: Lorri Hewett Publisher: Dutton Children’s Books Ages: 12 and up ISBN: 0525459685 Sixteen-year-old ballerina Stephanie lives for ballet, and dreams of a future as a professional...
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The Dancing Gourmet: a ballerina’s healthy recipes for fitness
Author: Hymes, Linda Title: The Dancing Gourmet: Recipes to Keep You on Your Toes! Publisher: Lindergaff Books, 2002 ISBN: 0971978204 Linda Hymes shares a full repertory of delicious, healthy...
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Interview With Zippora Karz, Author and Ex-Soloist With New York City Ballet
Zippora Karz is a former soloist ballerina with the New York City Ballet where she performed from 1983 through 1999. She was featured in a variety of roles choreographed by George Balanchine and...
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One Ballerina’s Love Affair With Pointe Shoes, Part III.
When I first began wearing pointe shoes, we wore them twice a week for 15 minutes at the end of class, so one pair of shoes would last many months. By the time I was an upper-division dancer at the...
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Interview With Stephen Manes, author of “Where Snowflakes Dance and Swear:...
Snowflakes cover photo © Angela Sterling. The world of ballet holds an air of mystery and magic for all dance fans, from elementary school children breathlessly awaiting their first performance of the...
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Ballet is About Precision
I have been thinking about how precise ballet is, right down to the position of the fingers. The head is tilted and the arms are placed just so; the feet are presented daintily. Every...
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How My Thoughts Influenced My Ballet Career
When I was a young dancer studying at the School of American Ballet I had a poster hanging above my bed that read: If you can imagine it, you can achieve it If you can dream it, you can become it...
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My First Summer at the School of American Ballet
Like most young dancers who wish to make the jump to the professional level, I took my first big step by auditioning for and attending a summer intensive at the School of American...
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A School of American Ballet Evaluation To Remember
At the end of every School of American Ballet summer intensive there comes a moment of reckoning. This is true for every dancer who sets foot in the studios. At this point every...
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Dancers Discuss Life After the Stage: Jenna Lavin-Crabtree
Jenna Lavin-Crabtree is originally from Queens, New York. She began ballet training with Mme. Gabriela Darvash and Jody Fugate. She later graduated from the School of American Ballet where she studied...
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Dancers Discuss Life After the Stage: Interview With Zippora Karz
Zippora Karz is a former soloist ballerina with the New York City Ballet where she performed from 1983 through 1999. She was featured in a variety of roles choreographed by George Balanchine and...
View ArticleFeast For The Senses Part II:Music That Makes You Move
Music is to dancers as oxygen is to the rest of us; a vital part of existence that we simply can't do without. It's the driving force for all dancers and creators of dance. But there's music and...
View ArticleFavorite Dance Firsts
January is a month of firsts. With just a few days left to this month, I thought I'd share some of my favorite and memorable dance firsts: The post Favorite Dance Firsts appeared first on Grier Cooper.
View Article5 Best Places to Dance
I've danced in a lot of different places over the past four decades... some of them memorable because they were magnificent, others... not so much. But being one of those people who prefer to focus on...
View ArticleHow a Mentor Changed My Life
Who are the people who have changed your life? Somewhere in the middle of celebrating Mother's Day I thought about someone who was often like a mother to me: my first ballet teacher, Irene Wiley Lander...
View ArticleSchool of American Ballet’s Summer Intensive: Week 1
This week is the first week of one the most major events of the summer for young ballet dancers: the School of American Ballet's Summer Intensive. From now through the end of July, during the five...
View ArticleThe School of American Ballet Summer Intensive: Week 2
There was a lot to figure out in the early days of my first Summer Intensive at the School of American Ballet. Once I had figured out how to navigate my way through the Metro North train system and the...
View ArticleWhat A Summer Intensive at the School of American Ballet Feels Like
While every day at the School of American Ballet held all the promise of my ballet future, I often felt one step behind, unsure of where I stood or whether I was even noticed. There were some days when...
View ArticleDebunking Ballet Myths
While many people admire ballet as art form, it's also often criticized. Unhealthy body image is one of the most common complaints. But are these criticisms based on reality or myth? Let's examine some...
View ArticleBallet’s Most Loaded Question
When I was a professional ballet dancer I often felt penned in by a strange irony: although I'd been one out of crowds of thousands of dancers chosen to dance with Miami City Ballet, I found myself...
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