Tag: training at home

How Can I Stay Motivated While Training at Home?

Ethan Ahuero was having a good year: he was in his first season dancing with Kansas City Ballet II and had been presented with the opportunity to choreograph on the second company. “The day before we shut down I had a rehearsal, and I was so happy,” Ahuero says. “The piece was coming together and […]

5 Unexpected Upsides to Training Quarantine-Style

You’ve been dancing in self-isolation for five, maybe six, weeks now. The novelty has worn off, and you’re daydreaming about your long-anticipated homecoming to a studio filled with moving, breathing, sweating humans. If you had to pick what you miss most about the pre-COVID-19 dance world, maybe it’s dancing with your fellow bunheads in person, […]

Tiler Peck's Top 10 Tips for Training at Home

On March 15, New York City Ballet principal Tiler Peck announced to her 172,000-plus Instagram followers that she’d be teaching a live class from her family’s home in Bakersfield, California, where she’s currently waiting out COVID-19. Little did she know that she’d receive such a viral response. Since then, Peck has offered daily Instagram LIVE […]