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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… click here to listen
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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… click here to listen
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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… click here to listen
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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… click here to listen
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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,… click here to listen
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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… click here to listen
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