Tag: Ballet Schools
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Grow your business
Start the New Year off right. For the 2023 year, I will be taking on 10 new clients! Do you want to grow your business, build your brand, and increase your online presence.
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Calling All Ballet Schools!
We are in the process of updating our school directory! Get in now and save! Don’t forget by listing your school, you will also be helping our foundation supply scholarships to students in need. If you have any questions let us know.
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The Top Ten Ballet Schools (2018)
Summer is ending, which means it is time to take a look at the BIG TEN issue. This issue features American Ballet Theatre’s Hee Seo and her foundation’s work of the YAGP KOREA. In this issue we will take a look at Ballet Ivy Leagues, the Top Ten Ballet Schools, and some of the best…
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A Ballet Education Scholarship
A Ballet Education has committed/pledged to raise $27,000 dollars in scholarship funds for various organizations including the YAGP Korea, Burbank Dance Academy, the Cirio Collective & helping support kids with the financial aid to attend Summer Intensives and the YAGP. This crowdfunding initiative is to help support the art form that I love with all…
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BREAST REDUCTIONS FOR BALLET GIRLS…
How big is too big? How much would you do for your son or daughter? Recently something came up that isn’t necessarily rare in ballet, but it is definitely something unspoken. Your child did everything right. Started ballet at three, became serious at eight, and at twelve, she was accepted to School of American Ballet…
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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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5 things your teachers will never tell you… and they should
If you are ages 11+ and you are training in ballet, like seriously training… Not like the, I dance ballet twice a week, supplemented with 4 jazz classes, leaps and turns and competition rehearsals… Like REAL TRAINING… Meaning you are taking at least 3 hours of ballet a day, and you are pushing yourself constantly.…
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The Big Five… (summer programs pt IV)
A lot of you concerned parents and students have written in about summer programs… While some of you have already gotten your acceptance letters, and have made your choices; others have gotten numerous rejection letters and are now distraught. First, we need to talk about the big five, which are the five summer program courses…
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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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Baby Ballerinas, and the costs of being one.
This one is for all of the parents who has a child starting out in ballet. (I have gotten a lot of e-mails asking a lot of really good questions, and I have been trying to individually reply but it has gotten to be too much. I am going to try lumping it all into…
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You know you trained Russian if…
I always use to say, “When I grow up, I want to be a Russian girl.” Or, “In my next life, I hope I am a Vaganova girl.” There is a reason why, and we all know it. Ballerinas from Russia seem to have it all. The French codified ballet, but the Russians have…
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The Great Debate: Gaynor Mindens…
The Great Debate: Gaynor Mindens… If I had it my way, everyone would dance in Freeds. Period. Because we are a free enterprise country, there are hundreds of different pointe shoes now available. Each brand has their own series of pointe shoes, and each pointe shoe has a “different personality” to accommodate a dancer’s needs.…
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Ballet Competitions
With movies like First Position, and with youtube broadcasts, ballet competitions seem to be popping up all over the place. More kids want to compete, and the stress level is on… (Read this post about that.) Ballet competitions are great exposure, they are great for scholarships, and they are great performance opportunities… but that is not…
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You know you trained Balanchine if…
Have you ever gone to an audition, and you are sizing up the competition before the class begins? It doesn’t even have to be an audition, it can just be an open class. As you look around, you start to size dancers up by “look”. Instantly, you can spot those dancers. Balanchine trained dancers. Even…
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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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The Big Ten (international schools)
If this was college football, well it isn’t. Haha. This is bigger than college football, this is ballet. Like football there are ten schools that everyone wants to get into. The only thing bigger than the school you get into, is the company you might dance for as an end result. In comparison, these are…
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