April/May 2012
Contents
April/May 2012
Allegra Kent On Her New Children’s Book
By Margaret Fuhrer
The Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet dancer branches out with commercial work.
By Margaret Fuhrer
The Joffrey Ballet’s John Mark Giragosian
By Thomas Connors
How to deal with a slippery floor, plus advice on competition anxiety and “ballerina baldness”
By Amy Brandt
As more graduates enter the corps, American Ballet Theatre's school is transforming the company.
By Sylviane Gold
More choreographers are creating work inside elite ballet academies—with surprising benefits.
By Elizabeth Zimmer
Wendy Whelan and Desmond Richardson partner for a special performance.
By Lauren Kay
What it’s like when ballet careers run in the family
By Kate Lydon
Essential techniques that every pre-professional should know.
How do you win a competition? Three medalists offer their advice.
By Nancy Wozny
Hungarian spice heats up Raymonda’s “clap variation.”
Pennsylvania Ballet’s Roy Kaiser inspires his dancers to develop their gifts.
By Lisa Kraus
Inside the business of ballet agents
By Amy Brandt
Dazzling Bolshoi-turned-Mikhailovsky principal Ivan Vasiliev reveals his superhero dreams.
By Laura Cappelle
The newly appointed artistic director of Miami City Ballet on her plans for the company.
By cseidman
