Category: Ramblings
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Giving Tuesday
Giving Tuesday is coming up and A Ballet Education’s Scholarship Fund: A Ballet Foundation is asking you to donate to our scholarship fund. Over the last 9 years we have given away over $400,000 through scholarships, pointe shoes, and fees associated with ballet. This year is our first official years a non-profit 501(c)3, this means […]
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Cross – Training Deep Dive : Rhythmic Gymnastics
Beautiful lines, stamina, and strength. Elena Baltovick of Danceology and Emerald City Rhythmics discusses art and sport.
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The Throwback that Inspires
A Ballet Education can sometimes be more than ballet. We through this Thursday back to the movers of today’s start and see where they have gone.
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Sunday Self Care: For the Dry Skin Dancer
Masks for the hair and skin that will get you ready for the week ahead.
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Self made Super Star
Sound the alarm, YOU are taking control of your social media accounts! Take it from us, not all posts have to be professionally made, but you also do not want the post that you made to look bad either. We’ve got you covered!
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Sunday Self Care: Meal Prep with 5 Fast Filling Snacks
Time is of the essence these days. Between training cross-training, and private coaching, it seems that the hours escape us. And in the middle of the day, you are hit with hunger, not lunch hungry, but snack hungry. While it is easy to grab a bag of chips, or a chocolate bar, and even the healthy protein bar, sometimes that just won’t cut it. For a lot of us, we get the munchies, we crave that wonderful salty- sweet sensation.
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Friday Feels: Misa Kuranaga This One’s for you: A Ballet Playlist Inspired by the Pop Ballets We Love
Misa Kuranaga’s Insta post yesterday of her and William Forsythe dancing together while rehearsing his ballet Playlist set our souls on fire!
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DON’T MISS OUT ON THESE SUMMER COURSES!
Right now a lot of the ballet world is scrambling as they commit to summer intensives. If you are late to the game, don’t worry! You haven’t missed out. These are amazing courses that still have auditions. These award-winning teachers are based around the US and will help you on your ballet journey. Dmitri Kulev […]
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The Symphonic Ballet & how we should take note…
The creation of a ballet usually happens in one of three ways. The first way of creating a ballet is the relationship of choreographer and composer working together to birth a new work, The Four Temperaments. The second way is the ability to create steps or a vocabulary first and then the composer is inspired, […]
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Audition Season is Upon Us
Right now, in 2021, audition season seems almost impossible. Ballet Companies and Schools are flooding their programs for the sake of recovering dollars lost during COVID, and parents are questioning whether or not sending their student away is even an option. I get it. 2021 is a mess. So, I am blogging today to help […]
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The Ballet Clinic Season 3
We are excited to announce Season 3 of The Ballet Clinic!! This last season has been insane, and while COVID-19 has created numerous issues, we are lucky enough to have survived and thrived. This 2020-2021 Season has been crazy, but we have already been awarded numerous awards and recognized for our outstanding and dedicated faculty. […]
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New Products on Redbubble!
Check out all of our new products and save this Monday. https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/63780535?ref=studio-promote
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Kathryn Morgan on her departure of Miami City Ballet
So Kathryn Morgan just opened up, and just put Miami City Ballet on Blast. Her story was super publicized, and in fact, maybe Miami City Ballet used her for just that: Her public forum. Did Miami City Ballet use her as a stunt to help save their company’s reputation, and do it for the look […]
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The Reinvention of Ballet
COVID has taken over almost every aspect of our lives. Our jobs, the way we interact with people, the news, and so on. While COVID has completely destroyed some aspects of ballet, ballet has found a way to reinvent itself: The Digital Performance. While I have a lot of problems with digital teaching, and that […]
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FREE NEW COLORING PAGES
Another Free Coloring Page from The Sleeping Beauty. If you haven’t ordered your August Planner, please do. We are running out. The August Planner’s theme is the Sleeping Beauty!
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COSTUMES FOR CHANGE
The Pointe Shoe Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ, is hosting a used costume sale July 27-31. All donations will be tax deductible and 100% of proceeds will go to A Ballet Education’s scholarship fund for dancers of color. All performance quality costumes are welcomed, including competition style, contemporary ballet, ballet tutus, solos, duets, trios, and groups. Please consider donating these […]
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JUNE 2020
People have said that I have been too silent, that I need to use my platform to stand up for the racial injustices in ballet and so on… It has been an exhausting war on social media and I am not going to defend myself. I have been a champion for dancers of color since […]
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THE SUMMER ISSUE IS HERE!
The Summer Issue is Here!!! Our Biggest Issue Ever! 120 PAGES! Ballet in the Age of Quarantine.
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ABT’S TOGETHER TONIGHT
American Ballet Theatre just made ballet history and made ballet even more accessible to everyone. While in the past few years, ABT has struggled with staying ahead of the curve of ballet innovation, ABT just blew everyone out of the water and jumped into the future of the art. Their fresh creativity via archived footage, […]
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Conservativism in Ballet
Ballet is conservative. It does not like progress, and it does not like people who are different from the people in power. It purposefully makes sure that people who are different feel like they are out of place, or that ballet is unobtainable. It prefers money, classism, and a body type that typically categorizes as […]
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