Recent News Archive

Dec 9, 2008: Tango in DC and “Tango Buenos Aires”
Tango was born at the beginning of the 20th century in Buenos Aires brothels, which brought together a mixture of immigrants from abroad...

Dec 8, 2008: DESMOND KELLY / A DANCE CAREER AROUND THE WORLD
Desmond Kelly is yet another South African who graced Britain’s Royal Ballet. Born in Penahlonga, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), like so many others, he followed his sister to ballet class.

Dec 8, 2008: How a Physics Professor Discovered Dance
Most ballet dancers start training as young children, learning how to point their feet, turn out their legs and maintain their posture.

Dec 8, 2008: When It Comes to Summer Intensives, It’s Not All About the Students
Summer ballet intensives have become an increasingly valuable addition to any dancer’s training. The parents wave goodbye for a few weeks...

Dec 8, 2008: Ballet is Just the Beginning
It takes more than strength, stability, agility and grace to be a ballet dancer -- much more. Ballet dancers often spend hours, days, months and years in dance studios learning...

Dec 8, 2008: TUTU: The History of a Perfect Design
When little girls dress up and prance around like ballerinas, what costume do they dream about? A tutu, of course.

Dec 8, 2008: Tightening the Dance Belt
Studio owners employ creative tactics to keep enrollment up, even when the economy is down.

Dec 8, 2008: Are You Ready for Nutcracker (or Any Other Performance)?
Your performances show off your “product.” Consequently, they are your most important advertising and public relations activities.

Dec 8, 2008: Working with Ballet Syllabi
Many talented minds have worked meticulously to create varying syllabi for the teaching of ballet in an effort to promote and improve the quality of ballet training across platforms...

Dec 8, 2008: Dance on Location: Seattle
Even though Seattle can claim choreographers such as Mark Morris, Robert Joffrey and Trisha Brown, who all began their careers in the Pacific Northwest...

Dec 8, 2008: Notable Feet: Margot Fonteyn, “Cool English Ballerina”
In her autobiography, ballerina absoluta Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) claims, “…I think one must look at the myriad tiny pieces of experience encountered in life.

Dec 8, 2008: Yamuna Body Rolling
On a chilly Saturday morning, I ventured downtown to the West Village to a place called Yamuna Studio, the home of the Yamuna Body Rolling technique.

Dec 8, 2008: Focus & Fuel for the High Performance Dancer-D13
Dancers want to dance. Though that may sound very simple and not too terribly problematic, anyone who has had the pleasure of dancing and calling themselves...

Dec 8, 2008: Tribute to Sallie Wilson: 1932-2009
True dancers, like all artists, are known to have a calling. From the time they are first exposed to dance, they instinctively know -- this is what they are going to do, what they must do; it’s their destiny.

Dec 8, 2008: “FALL FOR DANCE” – PART II
Has “Fall For Dance” fallen into overkill? Each year this particularly exciting series at City Center draws thousands of dance viewers, producing lines outside...

Dec 8, 2008: Ballet… Ballet… Ballet…
Putting it simply: Ballet is basic. Ballet should be the first step any student takes in a dance studio. Ballet must be the foundation of any dance aficionado’s career.

Dec 8, 2008: BREAK OUT
Eardrums beware! In other words, don’t sit too close to the stage when you buy your tickets to “Break Out.”

Dec 8, 2008: BALLET NY – Tenth Anniversary!
Even before the financial markets went into free fall, the maintenance of a small dance company was an almost insurmountable task.

Dec 8, 2008: The Back Page: All in the Family
It is six degrees of separation, with an Australian, English and American connection. Born in Australia, Leanne Benjamin started dancing in a local ballet school at age three.

Dec 8, 2008: Bril Barrett Grooves His M.A.D.D. Rhythms Tap into Prominence
While drastically changing tap, Bril Barrett still preserves its roots. This new generation teacher pulls in the youth with a hip style using current music and jazzed up versions of the older music standards.

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