What Should Young Ballet Students Eat Before and After Class?

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By Kusishree S For young dancers, what they eat is just as important as the time they spend in the studio. Ballet strength, focus, coordination, and endurance, so giving children the right foods before and after class can help them get most out of the class. For parents of children in Pre-Primary through Grade 2 ballet, whether they’re attending an ...

How The Nutcracker Became a Winter Tradition

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It is no surprise that if you’ve been associated with ballet in any capacity (or perhaps even movies that revolve around one specific doll: Barbie), you know about The Nutcracker. It is also no surprise that you know it as a ballet performed across the USA by most ballet companies from November to January, and sometimes even longer. But how ...

Holly Hynes on her designing process

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Article by Ahana Ayyaparaj for En Avant Winter 2025 Holly Hynes We hear from Holly Hynes, an award-winning costume designer with credits in over 300 ballets, including more than 70 for New York City Ballet. Her work appears in major companies worldwide - from The Bolshoi Ballet and The Royal Ballet to American Ballet Theatre, La Scala, and Paris Opera ...

Behind the Curtain : What Parents Don’t See in Our Latest Production

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It's 8pm in the evening and I am sitting in the office at Ulsoor, surrounded by raw materials for accessories and their components - over 2100 (yes, two thousand one hundred) of them that we have to make for the upcoming Madame Mystique Marvelous Machine production. I am cutting the comb that goes as part of the headpiece for the ...

Flexibility Meets Function: How Dancers Train Off Stage

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Content by Swetlana Goswami, and design by Maya Haridas for En Avant Summer 2025 When you watch a dancer performing on the stage, especially a ballet dancer, it often looks like an illusion of grace, power, and precision flowing effortlessly together. But what happens behind the scenes is months and years of rigorous training. Dancers nowadays understand that what they ...

Lights, Sound, Rehearsals!

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Students during rehearsals for Wicked (Summer Program 2025). The word “rehearsals” is as far from alien to the world of performing arts as it can be. If there is a show, there must be rehearsals and if there are rehearsals, a dancer knows, their family knows, their friends know and often (at least here in India) even their distant family ...

Ballet Dreams: Sanvitti Sai Roopesh and Swapna Roopesh

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Article by Maya Haridas for En Avant Mar-Apr 2024 Sanvitti Sai Roopesh At the time of interview, Sanvitti was 11 years old, in Grade 1 Ballet and had been learning ballet at TLFCB for 6 and a half years. As of now, she is in Grade 3 and 4 Ballet, and has also attended Australian Ballet School's Summer Intensive in ...

Spotlight on Queer Ballet

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Article by Aditri Chawla and design by Anagha Madan for En Avant July/August 2024 The narrative of nearly every classical ballet revolves around a man and a woman. The ballerina captivates us with her graceful pointework, while the male dancer impresses with his strength and agility. Together, they perform the iconic pas de deux, with their love and struggles propelling ...