by Kyra Laubacher For Pointe Magazine | Jun 30, 2020 | News
Mark your calendars! This Tuesday, July 7, join pre-professional dancers across the globe in an inaugural live-stream event celebrating World Ballet School Day 2020. Made “by students for students,” the event aims to bring young generations of dancers...
by Monica Stephenson | Jan 13, 2020 | teacher stories
When Joseph Morrissey first took the helm of the dance division at Interlochen Center for the Arts, a boarding high school in Interlochen, Michigan, he found a fully established pre-professional program with space to grow. And his vision was big, with plans to stage...
by Dance Magazine | Jan 6, 2020 | Placeholder content
Last year, Kensington MacMillen auditioned for summer programs away from home for the first time. A longtime Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet student, MacMillen had spent previous summers at her home studio, but now she was ready to branch out. After auditioning for...
by Pointe Magazine | Dec 19, 2019 | Placeholder content
Over the years, one thing kept Boston Ballet School director Margaret Tracey up at night. While she feels enormous pride in the training the school’s pre-professional division provides, she worried about how her students are doing outside of dance: namely, in...
by Haley Hilton | Jul 25, 2019 | News
It’s summer intensive season, people! Dancers go away to train for weeks at a time and come home having grown by leaps and bounds from all of the endless hours of focused attention with some of the nation’s top talent.Wanting to stay abreast of all of the...
by Dance Teacher | Aug 21, 2017 | Trending
Dance Teacher asked nine respected instructors to identify the most common technique mistakes they see when addressing a group of students for the first time. Here, they discuss the origins of these problems and offer their best solutions. …crunching their toes....
by Rachel Caldwell | Dec 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
Boston Ballet School has joined the list of schools that are official partners of the Prix de Lausanne international ballet competition. As a partner, BBS offers competition winners scholarships for one year of training or a year-long apprenticeship with the company....
by Rachel Caldwell | May 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Boston Ballet’s Isaac Akiba and Erica Cornejo rehearsing Yury Yanowsky’s Smoke and Mirrors Before Isaac Akiba became a soloist with Boston Ballet, his Boston Ballet School teacher Kathleen Mitchell taught him that it’s his responsibility to make...