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Indiana University’s New Department of Dance with Sarah Wroth and Liz Shea
Get early access to ad-free episodes and exclusive panel discussions by joining our In July 2025, a new Indiana law set minimum graduation numbers for degree programs at public universities. IU responded by combining its ballet and contemporary dance…
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Does College Mean Giving Up Ballet? Columbia University’s Student Ballet Company.
Get early access to ad-free episodes and exclusive panel discussions by joining our We sat down with Henry “Hank” Lichtmacher, Sreya Sathish-Kumar and JiaLi Deck, three members of the board of directors of the Columbia University Ballet…
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What College Admissions Officers Really Think About Ballet Training
Get early access to ad-free episodes and exclusive panel discussions by joining our Is your dancer hoping ballet will be their ticket into a top college? We sat down with Sandy Choe and Corinne Smith of Infinite Futures, a college advising company…
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Postgrad Ballet Training: Why You Need a Strategy
Get early access to ad-free episodes and exclusive panel discussions by joining our This week, it’s just us! We’re talking all things postgraduate ballet training. We spend some time going over our most recent iteration of the , including some…
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Ballet Myths, Busted: Body Types, Competitions and Big Donors | Part 2
Get early access to ad-free episodes and exclusive panel discussions by joining our There’s one body type for ballet. We asked Peter LeBreton Merz, artistic director of Eglevsky Ballet and former director of Ballet West Academy, and Racheal Nye,…
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Ballet Myths, Busted: Blacklists, Pointe Pressure and Who Makes It | Part 1
Get early access to ad-free episodes and exclusive panel discussions by joining our Turn down School of American Ballet once and you’ll never get back in. Most ballet parents have heard some version of that, along with plenty of other myths. So we…
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An Early Look At Our Ballet Competition Reviews Results
Many of you have reached out privately to tell us how excited you are that we’re extending our platform to include ballet competition reviews. We thought it might be fun to give you a little sneak peek at what we’re seeing in the initial batch. We sifted through the data and here is what we…
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How Two Young Dancers Made Their Own Ballet Festival
Get early access to ad-free episodes and exclusive panel discussions by joining our Lily Peta and Emma Wheeler did everything the traditional ballet path asks of young dancers and still found themselves waiting for the right job to come along. Then,…
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Charlotte Ballet with Ayisha McMillan Cravotta & Alicia Delgadillo
We sit down with Ayisha McMillan Cravotta and Alicia Delgadillo of Charlotte Ballet to talk about what the road from trainee to professional looks like there. Alicia…
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Introducing Ballet Competition Reviews
You’re all probably quite familiar with the recent dust-up surrounding ballet competitions and the Cloud & Victory post on Instagram. Afterward, a number of people approached us and asked us to put out some sort of statement. We didn’t think a statement would have much of an impact, though. Plus, we’re just two people, and…