“Dancers are flexible people,” says Atlanta Ballet Artistic Director Gennadi Nedvigin, and I know what he means. As a professor of dance who taught virtual classes from my cramped living room and ...

My Spotify is my most honest form of social media. Instagram is a polished, posed image of my hilarious, cool, city girl life. Twitter is a library of my neverending witty refrains, dry remarks and ...

It was 2016 and I had asked for warm-up boots for Christmas. The puffy boots, which looked like trash bags, insulated the feet before rehearsals and were wildly popular at my ballet studio. After ...

When I first started writing about my relationship to dance, I was careful not to call myself a dancer. Or I put “dancer” in quotes. Not a real dancer, I hoped the quotes made clear. I was a person, a ...

Last week, I discovered that I can touch my toes (and maybe you can, too). In the past I never really felt like I got much out of stretching, and I know that it doesn’t do much to prevent injury or ...

It was about an hour after my last pirouette of the evening onstage with the American Ballet Theatre, and I was already in my pajamas. With a glass of wine in one hand and the phone in the other, I ...

As a teenager, ballet was just one of my extracurriculars, a hobby alongside piano and watercoloring. But as it turns out, ballet demanded more from me than tickling the ivory. Six days a week, we met ...

I felt deeply guilty after forgetting my daughter's ballet viewing, and she was inconsolable. I called my own mom for perspective and solace. She helped us reframe this mistake as a lesson in empathy ...

About 30 minutes before my son's first, and so far only, ballet class, I was desperately sifting through the toddler section at Target. While the ballet outfits for little girls are plentiful and ...