by Jess Spinner | Aug 31, 2022 | Health & Body, Wellness
You’ll be hard-pressed to find a ballet dancer who has never worried about their body. The culture, the mirrors, comments from teachers, social media and peer pressure all play into a dancer’s concerns with looking a certain way or fitting into some perceived...
by Suvi Honkanen | Feb 21, 2021 | Career, Company Life, Instagram, Training
As a ballet student, I distinctively remember being told that to survive ballet as a profession, one must be exceptionally thick-skinned and resilient. I always assumed it was because of the physically demanding nature of ballet: long rehearsal hours, challenging and...
by Rachel Hellwig | Oct 12, 2020 | Career, Health & Body, Instagram
Editor’s note: Last week in a viral YouTube video, Kathryn Morgan shared that she decided to leave Miami City Ballet, where she was a soloist, after she was taken out of roles because of her body. In our Fall 2020 issue, we spoke with Morgan about the experience...