Keeping the Artist Alive in Young Dancers (and stepping outside my comfort zone)

These last weeks as I have begun working with American Ballet Theatre’s National Training Curriculum in my own ballet classroom I find myself bumping up against a small dilemma:  improvisation is to be explored in the lower levels of the curriculum.
Er, okay.  See, the thing is, I suck at improvisation.  I always have.  Once I [...]

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: