Watch this hour-long conversation to get deeper insights into key characteristics audition panelists are looking for, tips for preparing students beyond performance ability, and advice on managing emotions when your students don’t receive their desired results. Guest speakers Nile H. Russell, director of education for the American Dance Festival; Dionne Figgins, artistic director of Ballet […]
One hundred and forty-nine dances by Eliot Feld, founder and former artistic director and president of Ballet Tech, are being entered into the public domain. Additionally, together with Ballet Tech, New York City’s Public School for Dance, Feld has also donated archival materials to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (the Jerome […]
Since 2021, Dionne Figgins has led Ballet Tech, New York City’s Public School for Dance, which operates in tandem with the NYC Department of Education. Children across NYC’s boroughs have received not only intensive ballet training but lessons in modern dance, tap, jazz, theater dance, and choreographic repertory. And graduates have gone on to perform […]
Tammi Shamblin works magic with the boys of Ballet Tech in New York City. Here, she uses imagery to teach rond de jambe.
A conversation with Ballet Tech’s Eliot Feld One day while sitting on the number 3 train crowded with elementary school children, choreographer Eliot Feld felt a wave of inspiration. There were thousands of New York City kids who could be capable of great talent and passion for dance, but they did not have the opportunity […]