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You don’t need a lifetime of theoretical training to know a few basic terms in ballet:
plié, tendu, pas de deux - these are all examples of terms you’ve most likely heard before -
BUT do you know how fundamentally important ballet terminology is for dance in general? ...
Have you always wanted to create choreography, but you don't know where to start? Or you have an amazing idea, but you’re missing the tools to translate it into movement? Maybe you were asked to create choreography, but you feel empty...
Regardless of which scenario applies to...
Doing ballet as an adult can seem like a daunting ordeal when you consider the physical toll you have to put yourself through on a regular basis.
But what if we told you that doing ballet in your adulthood can actually benefit you in way that you may have missed?
Here are our top 7 reasons...
Starting ballet as an adult can seem a bit nerve racking.
It takes guts to walk into a ballet studio and "just dance." When you don't know the steps, or the class order, or ballet etiquette, or the many, many French terms...it can all be a bit overwhelming. But the benefits of adult ballet...
You know that feeling you get when a teacher asks if anybody needs to repeat the sequence one more time and you feel like saying “at least 10 times more, please”?
Or when you see dancers who immediately pick up the choreography, while you can't remember a single move?
We've...
Any ballet dancer out there has inevitably heard the question: "So, can you do a split?"
Since stretching the splits are an important aspect of life for many dancers, your answer is likely, "Yes, I can do a split."
At this point it's almost definite that you hear a resounding chorus...
Jenny Henkel
August 1, 2022
Generally speaking, turnout is the #1 defining characteristic of the ballet aesthetic.
After all, it’s common knowledge that ballet is (for the most part) performed with the legs in outward rotation, otherwise known as turnout. A dancer’s...
The word choreography comes from Greek and means dance-writing.
In a nutshell, we can say that choreography is about designing movement in time and space. But what does it mean in practice?
Can improvisation also be choreographed? Is choreography just a bunch of dance moves strung...
