Tag: ballet schools
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Royal Ballet School Cancels Spring Intensive & Other News
As the World Health Organization just announces that the COVID-19 VIRUS is officially a pandemic, the Royal Ballet School cancels its Spring Intensive, just days before international students are set to leave to self-quarantine leaving dozens of hopeful young dancers devastated. This is just a day behind many Ivy League Universities closing for the rest…
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Top 10 Toxic Ballet Schools
All schools are not created equally. There are different schools for different purposes, different schools have different resources. Resources can include everything from financial aid to connections to community programs to performing opportunities. These schools around the world are sometimes overwhelming to navigate or there is a very large amount of pressure to make it…
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21 Year-Round Programs
By now, summer intensives have rounded out their invitations to their year round programs. Now, dozens of hopeful ballet dancers are joining the most elite schools around the world. For those who weren’t asked to stay for the year, the stress sets in about what to do next season. You start to wonder, “Are you…
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Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner: the TOP TEN BALLET SCHOOLS of 2015
Winner, winner chicken dinner. The list is in. The TOP TEN Ballet Schools of 2015. There is always a great debate when it comes to rankings. Rankings for anything really are always surrounded by controversy, but we love them. While the list last year reflected the number of graduates from a school in principal jobs…
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Ballet Vocabulary: Lesson 1
In the world of ballet, there are three languages. There is the language in which ballet was codified, French. Then there is the language in which interprets ballet, body language backed by emotion. And then there is a language that ballet dancers actually speak, a language of their own, and I’m not talking about French.…
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What is Good Ballet?
What is “good” ballet? I have been asked this a lot… and frankly I was avoiding this conversation as it is super subjective. It is like asking, “What is good art?” There isn’t a definitive answer, which is why I try to explain my opinion. First, we have to go over the context in which good…
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JKO SCHOOL
There really is no secret formula to decide what ballet school is better. You have to remember that my top ten ballet schools was a reflection of history, careers, and outstanding teachers… A lot of people have written in on why I don’t talk about the JKO school, so here I am talking about the…
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8 Ballet Schools that most people don’t know about, but should… (international)
Víctor Ullate Centro de Danza, Madrid, Spain (click here) Academie Princesse Grace, Montecarlo, Monaco (click here) Ellison Ballet, New York City, United States (click here) The John Cranko School. Stuttgart, Germany (click here) Ballettschule der Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria (click here) Escola de Danca Do ConservatoriaNacional, Lisbon, Portugal (click here) Teatro Colón Ballet School, Buenos Aires, Argentina (click here) Ballet…
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Collegiate Program Rankings…. (US LIST)
So, a lot of you have asked about ranking colleges, and my opinions on collegiate programs. In addition, you have all left some pretty nasty comments and e-mails regarding my collection of ballet schools. With that being said, this list is in no particular order, and are just some of my observations about dance programs and…
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