In our “Dear Katie” series, Miami City Ballet soloist Kathryn Morgan answers your pressing dance questions. Have something you want to ask Katie? Email [email protected] for a chance to be featured! Dear Katie, I’m serious about dancing, but I’m also a good academic student. I’m 15 now, and it’s getting really hard to balance my […]
In our Dear Katie series, Miami City Ballet soloist Kathryn Morgan answers your pressing dance questions. Have something you want to ask Katie? Email [email protected] for a chance to be featured! Dear Katie, I think I have an eating disorder. My eating habits have been getting worse (binging and purging, fasting, all that) since I […]
In our Dear Katie series, Miami City Ballet soloist Kathryn Morgan answers your pressing dance questions. Have something you want to ask Katie? Email [email protected] for a chance to be featured! Dear Katie, I can do fouetté turns forever in flat shoes— but once I put my pointe shoes on, everything falls apart. How can […]
Win a Copy of the New “Ballerina Project” Book
When you think of a Balanchine ballerina, the dancer you imagine probably looks a lot like Teresa Reichlen. The New York City Ballet principal brings long-legged extensions and queenly poise to her extensive repertory of Balanchine “goddess” roles. She’s also a captivating force to be reckoned with in works by Jerome Robbins, Justin Peck, and […]
The mark of a truly skilled ballerina is her ability to make the pointe shoe look like a part of her body, an extension of her beautifully S-curved leg. It’s hard to believe the shoe was ever foreign to her, or that she ever had that awkward first time on pointe. We asked six professional […]
So many ballet greats start out as apprentices before joining the main company’s corps de ballet. But what do the ins and outs of an apprenticeship actually look like? We had American Ballet Theatre apprentice Abbey Marrison keep a diary last fall during the week of the company’s gala performance. In the gala, Marrison performed […]
New York City Ballet soloist Georgina Pazcoguin’s vivacious energy and fiery passion infuse her ballet roles, but her effervescent presence also proves perfect for the Great White Way. In 2015 she made her Broadway debut as Ivy Smith in On the Town, and she played the white cat Victoria in the 2016 revival of CATS. […]