Careers
Some college dance programs train students for a second career
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“When I was a dancer,” says Toronto museum curator Francisco Alvarez, “three things never happened–no strength training, no bottled water, and no career planning.”
Now, thanks to Canada’s Dancer Transition Resource Centre, even dancers in training are urged to think beyond a performing career. Yetread more »
For most dancers, injuries are devastating. But when Kari Brunson got a stress fracture in her foot last May, all she could think was “Thank God.” Then a corps member at Pacific Northwest Ballet, Brunson had just come off a highly successful season and was cast in a number of soloist and principalread more »
For a dancer, the art of finding equilibrium is an ongoing practice achieved through continuous subtle adjustments. After 14 years with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Charlton Boyd is finding balance in both body and soul and helping his massage therapy clients to attain the same.
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After dancer Caryn Heilman left the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1999, she and her partner, musician Nana Simopoulos, dreamed of creating a hub of arts and education in their small Berkshire community. Their vision: produce multimedia music and dance works on a grand New York City scale and houseread more »
As a dancer, Manny Rodriguez was athletic, handsome, and the life of the party. He brought his Puerto Rican feistiness to Ballet Hispanico of New York, toured the world with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, and spent three years in Paris performing with Régine Chopinot’s Ballet Atlantique.
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It took an ankle injury for Vanessa Bossardt to discover she had an interest in physical therapy, anatomy, and Pilates. Her professional ballet career ended in 2003 at age 24, but that’s when she began her process of developing Balates, a fusion of Pilates and ballet. Bossardt currently teachesread more »
Dancing in Ben Stevenson’s Peer Gynt gave Krissy Richmond a glimpse of her future. “I always loved the acting part of dancing,” says the former Houston Ballet principal. Richmond now has a dual post-dance life: one deeply immersed in Houston’s burgeoning theater scene, the other as Houston’s onlyread more »
Marisa Cerveris’s idea for a dancewear line began as a young dancer studying at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. “The leotards did not adhere to the small of my back and the fabric would billow out,” she says about the dancewear available at the time. “As dancers we work so hardread more »
“Finding myself a beginner again, that was the hardest part,” says Robert Small. Dancer/choreographer/teacher and soloist for nine years with the Murray Louis Dance Company, Small is discussing his new life as a landscape designer. “I had to step out of my comfort zone,” he says, “and start allread more »
