by Mike1138 | Sep 13, 2016 | Footnotes
Once you lace up your pointe shoes, there’s nothing like the high of becoming one with the music. Everything else in the world fades away when the music begins. Your breathing coincides with each graceful movement, as your feet whisk you away across the dance...
by Mike1138 | Nov 17, 2015 | Footnotes
Picture: Hopkins-Greene, here with Glenn Allen Sims in Chroma, uses the fourth wall to help her focus. Photo by Paul Kolnik, courtesy Ailey. How to become the kind of performer audiences can’t take their eyes off of. After countless hours in rehearsal, the stage can...
by Mike1138 | Sep 10, 2015 | Footnotes
In the following video trailer for Nelson George’s documentary A Ballerina’s Tale, Misty Copeland—who in June became the first black principal dancer for the American Ballet Theater—talks about the familiar feeling of isolation in an arts industry not always known for...
by Mike1138 | Aug 30, 2015 | Footnotes
Between soccer and scouts, your school-age kid’s schedule is loaded with fun activities. If you’re on the fence about adding music classes to the list, take note of the benefits that come with signing your little one up for violin or piano lessons. Maybe...
by Mike1138 | Aug 30, 2015 | Footnotes
Your child is busy, taking hours of dance class per week, and you are wondering, “Is all of this money going toward the right things? Is my budding dancer getting what he or she needs for the best value?” When you have a child in dance, you pledge your own resources...