by Betsy Farber | Jul 3, 2020 | Music, teacher stories
Teaching artist Kelby Brown prefers simple piano accompaniment with long sustaining chords. He finds this helps dancers to concentrate and fill in the space with the steps. “I need fewer notes, less music,” he says. It’s an approach he learned from...
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 Helen Hope | Dec 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
While many productions of The Nutcracker, traditional or unconventional, are still going strong across the country, this weekend also saw countless Claras and Maries waving good-bye to the Land of Sweets for the very last time this year. And let’s be real here:...