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Cultivating Excellence: How to Develop Leadership Skills in Ballet

Emily Graham — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 17:05:00 +0000

Guest post by Emily Graham Leadership in ballet is not merely about directing a company or studio—it’s a journey of constant self-improvement, resilience, and adaptability. In an ever-evolving art form, the ability to lead with both artistic vision and strategic thinking is essential. This article explores essential resources to help ballet leaders, from artistic directors …

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Back in the Classroom

Tammy Rhoades-Baldwin — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:53:34 +0000

I spoke to a Teaching Methods class this week. They’re all young college students preparing for a career teaching dance, and the professor invited me to talk and answer questions about my teaching career. She especially wanted them to hear about how my dance career detoured to 23 years of working at a bank before …

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Book Review: Finis Jhung Ballet for Life

Tammy Rhoades-Baldwin — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 03:17:40 +0000

Finis Jhung has released a beautiful memoir, filled with pictures from his dancing days, his teaching days, his surgery-recovery days, and his family days. Today all 54 reviews on Amazon are 5 stars. The odd-numbered pages of the book have a photograph with Finis’ remembrances about the period in his life on the opposite, even-numbered page. His is a fascinating story, as he knew at a very young age and after seeing The Red Shoes that he wanted to be a dancer.

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