What My Teacher Taught Me: Miami City Ballet’s Soloist Ariel Rose on Choreographer Francis Patrelle
The first ballet class I ever took was taught by choreographer Francis Patrelle at Ballet Academy East in New York City. I was 6 years old and he was teaching an all-boys class—a gift at a time [the 1990s] when it was especially hard to be the only boy in a class full of girls. […]