Tag: summer

Etiquette Tips for Your Dancers Before They Leave for Their Summer Intensives

Summer intensive season is just around the corner, which means it’s time to begin prepping your students for the do’s and don’ts of program etiquette. Of course your students know how to behave within the classroom (you’ve raised them right), but there are a few curveballs coming there way during their five weeks of intense […]

Andrea Giselle Schermoly Likes to Cross-Relate Music Genres

Despite her traditional ballet training in South Africa, Andrea Giselle Schermoly has always had a wide range of music tastes and sensibilities. “There’s always been this other drumbeat in my heart,” says Schermoly, who’s a three-time Outstanding Choreographer winner at the Youth America Grand Prix. That “other drumbeat” has become an integral layer to her […]

How Dancers Get Their Summer On

It’s almost August. That means you’re busy hosting summer classes and prepping for a new school year. Meanwhile, dancers across the country are on tour or performing at festivals with their companies’ fall seasons just around the corner. But amid the mayhem, we all hope for a little time to enjoy what we love about this time of year: sun, sand and […]

Summer Cross-Training

Encouraging students to stay active during vacation will help them smoothly return to dance in the fall. Running keeps Ailey’s Alicia Graf Mack strong during off-season. The leggy and lean Alicia Graf Mack needs to keep herself in top form when Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has time off. When she returns to rehearsal in […]