A Little Something to Watch


ABT/NTC Examinations at Knoxville Ballet School: Images from the Day

Primary Level A numbers, socks, and flowers for hair, at the ready

Primary Level A candidates pose for pictures before class 

 Primary Level B candidates ready for class

 Level 2-B candidates, cheerful in spite of nerves

Ready Or Not

Less than five days until Franco De Vita (Principal, American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School) arrives at Knoxville Ballet School to adjudicate examinations classes.  Hair thingummies and candidate numbers:

Hair thingummy up close:

Merde to all my young students!

Spelling Counts.

And here is why.  Watch starting at 12 seconds, the beautiful Emanuel Amuchastegui, gold medalist at the 2010 Prix de Lausanne.

Technique, technique, technique.  Visit the Prix de Lausanne.  And go here for more about Emanuel.

Ballet on the Big Screen

Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman brings us a new movie that takes us behind the scenes at the Paris Opera Ballet.  La Danse has its premiere today before its nationwide theatrical release.  Will it come to Knoxville?  Fingers crossed.  Take a peek: