Tag: training

Teen Vogue’s Amy Astley on "Strictly Ballet"

Jasmine Perry with Alec and Victor of “Strictly Ballet” Photo Will Davidson/Teen Vogue You already know just how much we love it when the fashion world enters ours (excluding the recent Free People, um, snafu). So it’s no surprise that we’re ecstatic about Teen Vogue’s newest venture: a web series (premiering today!) following six students […]

Best in Class

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 […]

Working One-on-One: What to Expect From Private Lessons

(Photo by Jennifer Verrecchia) When Pennsylvania Ballet corps member Elizabeth Wallace was in seventh grade, she decided to enroll in private lessons with her teachers at Lexington Ballet in Kentucky. “What I needed help with was different from the other girls,” she says. One year later, Wallace placed in the Top 12 at Youth America […]

Keeping Pace

Deirdre Lewis loved studying ballet and jazz as a young teen, but unlike many of her peers at Dance Workshop of Hanover in Massachusetts, “dance was not my life,” she says. “I was a cheerleader, and was also very involved in school.” As her non-dance activities took up more and more of her time, she […]