You work hard in dance class to perfect your technique and perform at your best. But what you do outside of class counts, too. The truth is, little everyday habits—like carrying an overstuffed dance bag or texting nonstop—could be negatively affecting your body and, ultimately, your dancing. Dance Spirit investigates seven bad health habits that […]
Metropolitan Ballet Academy & Company’s Sara Vander Voort and Jonathan Tavares in Kanji Segawa’s Viva (photo by Eduardo Patino) You get all the lead roles and your teachers always ask you to demonstrate. You’ve taken top titles at competitions and have been singled out by star choreographers at conventions. It’s been said that you’re the […]
Nicole Carol Schuman She wasn’t the star of her studio, but that didn’t keep Nicole Carol Schuman from having an amazing professional dance career: I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be a professional dancer. Sure, what I actually wanted to be was an astronaut-marine-model-princess-ballerina-lawyer-writer, but dance has always been a part […]
Emily Mistretta in The Nutcracker (Gene Schiavone) If you’re a talented small-town ballet student, you’ve probably wondered: Should I leave my local studio to study at a top-notch school? At the bigger institution, you’d have more intense training, which would help when it came time to audition for companies. But if you left you’d miss […]