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Letter From the Editor: Honoring Lineage and Leadership in AAPI Heritage Month

Reanne Rodrigues

This Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’re honoring the deep artistic lineages and contemporary voices shaping dance across the Asian American diaspora. In our Dance History column, you’ll learn about Michio Ito, a Japanese choreographer and dancer who established himself as a pioneer of modern dance. You’ll also meet Peter Veth, a torchbearer […]

Collage of images with Simone Gabrielle teaching (left), hugging a student (middle) and a class image of her students (right).

San Diego Academy of Ballet Students Find Global Success Through Vaganova Training

Julia Mary Register

Teaching Resources

Ballet dancer leaping with the light blurred behind in a fiery orange tone.

How to Help Your Students Effectively Develop Muscle Memory

Sarah Parker

Collage of images with Simone Gabrielle teaching (left), hugging a student (middle) and a class image of her students (right).

San Diego Academy of Ballet Students Find Global Success Through Vaganova Training

Julia Mary Register

Jenna Zavrel teaching a class.

Teaching Dance Postpartum: Balancing Motherhood and a Career

Jenna Zavrel

Group of little girls crying during ballet practice in studio with teacher overlooking.

How to Navigate Tough Classes, From the Rowdy to the Removed

Kyra Laubacher

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Technique & Artistry

Ballet dancer leaping with the light blurred behind in a fiery orange tone.

How to Help Your Students Effectively Develop Muscle Memory

Sarah Parker

Jonathan Alsberry teaching a class wearing a grey tshirt and black pants with arms held in open fifth position.

Navigating Turns With Your Students

Katie Slattery

A busy crowd scene from the ballet Giselle, in which the lead ballerina, in white, is dramatically going mad while male and female ballet dancers gasp in the background.

How to Help Students Embrace—and Succeed in—Background Roles

Jennifer Heimlich

The same ballet dancer shown in three different roles, in a long classical skirt, a black leotard with bare legs, and a silky pajama set.

How to Cast and Coach Dancers in Roles Outside of Their Comfort Zones

Stav Ziv

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Lesson Plans

Irene Hogarth-Cimino assisting students at the barre. The student has her leg extended in second position.

Irene Hogarth-Cimino Teaches Glissade Assemblé for Elementary to Advanced Levels

Hannah Chang Foster

Jacqueline Green Miller wearing a black crop top and leggings faces a screen with a laptop in front of her. She has one arm overhead and the other held low against her hip.

Jacqueline Green Miller Teaches How to Harness Turnout, Length, and Connection Through Plié to Passé and Beyond

Hannah Chang Foster

A woman in bright pink classical Indian attire is in a dance studio, arms outstretched and face tilted up toward her right hand.

Sahasra Sambamoorthi Teaches a Bharatanatyam Warm-Up Combo

Hannah Chang Foster

A man in a black t-shirt and black pants leads a rehearsal in a dance studio. Several dancers wearing rehearsal attire are also visible.

University of Iowa Ballet Professor Eloy Barragán Shares a Partnered Phrase

Hannah Chang Foster

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Studio Owners

Collage of images with Simone Gabrielle teaching (left), hugging a student (middle) and a class image of her students (right).

San Diego Academy of Ballet Students Find Global Success Through Vaganova Training

Julia Mary Register

Philadelphia’s Second Chance Dance Creates Community for Adult Dancers

Hana Le

A group of young Nigerian dancers dressed in black and blue leotards, tights, and ballet shoes.

How Above Ballet Company Is Raising the Standard of Ballet Training in Nigeria

Julia Mary Register

A group of six young ballet dancers/students at the barre dressed in blue leotards and skirts, pink tights, and ballet slippers.

Passing Directorship From Parents to Son at Logrea Dance Academy

Julia Mary Register

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Dance History

John Bubbles: The Father of Rhythm Tap

Jenai Cutcher

Bessie Schönberg: Teaching the Art of Making Dances

Rachel Caldwell

Black and white image of Trisha Brown.

Trisha Brown: Taking Postmodernism to New Heights

Rachel Caldwell

A black and white photo of a male dancer jumping with knees bent and arms extended to the side above shoulder height.

Erick Hawkins: Martha Graham’s First Male Company Member and the Creator of the Hawkins Technique

Rachel Rizzuto

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Music

Annie Rigney in a dark rose tshirt with one arm outstretched and the other folded against her chest. She looks sideways.

How Annie Rigney Uses Music To Get Students Out of Their Heads and Into Their Bodies

Jennifer Heimlich

Daniel Duell teaching at Ballet Chicago.

How Daniel Duell Passes Along Balanchine’s Lessons on Musicality

Jennifer Heimlich

Shots of Rachel Leigh Dolan in the studio with other dancers in the middle frame. On the right and left she is pictured in a red lit room.

How Rachel Leigh Dolan Uses Music to Get Her Students in the Right Mindset for Class

Jennifer Heimlich

A diverse group of teenaged dancers in black pants and orange and yellow tank tops move together onstage.

The Art of the Playlist for K–12 Classes

Jill Randall

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Health & Body

Jenna Zavrel teaching a class.

Teaching Dance Postpartum: Balancing Motherhood and a Career

Jenna Zavrel

Ballet teacher explaining mistakes to student at the barre.

10 Toxic Phrases Heard in Dance Classes (and What to Say Instead)

Barry Kerollis

Picture of a ballet dancer in a studio sitting down with one knee bent, her head and arm resting on it.

What Dancers, Teachers, and Directors Need to Know About Concussions

Hana Le for Pointe Magazine

Alexandra Beller wearing a grey top, arms outstretched and looking upward.

Beyond the Mirror: Teaching Toward Internal Feedback

Alexandra Beller

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Artist Profiles

Peter Veth dressed in traditional Cambodian dress performs on stage.

Peter Veth Is an Ambassador of Cambodian Classical Ballet 

Barry Kerollis

Brian Golden holding a dance pose against a red background on the left and on the right he kneels by a white prop on stage.

Brian Golden Redefines Disability Through Dance

Ashton Benn

The Remarkable Career of Myrna Kamara

Amy Brandt For Pointe Magazine

A collage of images of three freestyle Olympic skiiers from Team USA. The text on the right side reads "Qualified" Rell Harwood"; in the middle "Gold" Elizabeth Lemley; and on the far right "Qualified" Grace Henderson.

How Ballet West’s Allison DeBona Coached Team USA’s Olympic Freestyle Skiers

Reanne Rodrigues

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