It’s called petit allegro – the swift and agile footwork that enables ballerinas to dodge falling debris during a hurricane. Ignoring Mayor Bloomberg’s order to stay indoors and watch SYTYCD reruns this weekend, Becky, visiting from England, decides not to let a little hurricane spoil her trip to New York. Leaping over a fallen tree branch, she finishes in an arabesque à terre croisé de [..]
A ballet dancer is constantly renegotiating her relationship with gravity; we rise on pointe as an expression of our desire to fly. Joie Brown’s beautiful watercolor triptych illustrates two important aspects of a dancer’s technique: Well-developed arches of the feet, coupled with the ankle mobility needed to position the ankle bone over the toes en pointe Dancers aren’t born with these f [..]
Will there be ballet at Burning Man this year? Ballet to the People interviewed some veterans who passed on these survival tips for dancers: Dancing in that low humidity can be lethal: hydrate well. Coconut water is the fashionable hydrating drink right now, ve [..]
Anthony takes a break from rehearsing an Indonesian adaptation of ‘Swan Lake’ on the Big River to demonstrate an open 4th position croisé. Think of the open 4th position of the f [..]
[caption id="attachment_368" align="aligncenter" width="584" caption="American Ballet Theatre alumna Cristina Escoda, partnered by Adrian McHale of Ballet Populaire de l’Île du Cerf. Cristina models Ballet to the People’s regulation Hello Kitty practice T while both dancers favor flip-flops when rehearsing on cliffs. Please do not attempt this if you are not a trained professional. (Photo cou [..]
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