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Sometimes ballet is mean and strange

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Darcy Kistler, left, adjusts six year-old Mia Cardillo’s legs as as Katrina Killian, right, adjusts Cardillo’s feet during auditions for new students at the School of American Ballet in New York.  It was the first time in the school’s 73 year-old history six year-olds were allowed to audition. Previously the earliest age group was eight.  [...]

Wheeldon

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Chris Wheeldon rehearses Within the Golden Hour with San Francisco Ballet dancers (© Erik Tomasson)

A first position account of ballet: the ups, downs and all classes in between. As an old instructor once said, “This is going to be very, very hard because ballet needs to be very very perfect.”