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Dear Katie: Help! I Can't Hold My Turnout on Pointe!

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, When on pointe, I find it very hard to maintain my turnout, especially in first and second position. If I try to […]

Dear Katie: How Can I Get My Développé Higher?

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’ve been trying to improve my front développé, but I just can’t get it higher than 90 degrees. I’m plenty flexible, and […]

Dear Katie: How Do I Stay Motivated to Dance?

In our “Dear Katie” series, former NYCB 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 used to love dance so much, but I’ve been injured on and off for the past year, and I feel like I’m […]

How to Master Step-Over Pirouettes

“Lame duck.” It sounds like nothing else in the classical ballet vocabulary, right? Also known as step-up turns or step-over turns—or, more technically, as piqués en dehors—these tricky pirouettes show up all over the classical ballet repertoire, perhaps most famously in Odette’s Act II variation in Swan Lake. Here’s how to keep your lame ducks […]

10 Ariana Grande Songs Perfect for Choreographing

Finding the perfect song to choreograph to can sometimes be a very tricky task. But thankfully, our queen Ariana Grande is constantly releasing dance-worthy bops. Whether from her hit albums Dangerous Woman and Sweetener, or her most recent, thank u, next, there are a ton of songs from the “God is a Woman” singer that […]