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Susan Robinson: For the “Pure Love of Dance”

Susan Robinson, ballet teacher extraordinaire, on how she transmits her “pure passion for the art” to successive generations of dancers.

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Crystal Pite - Rigour and Recklessness

Crystal Pite, the internationally acclaimed Canadian choreographer, talks about the processes and emotions that come together in her extraordinary work.

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The Strange Case of the Missing Choreographers...

Does gender, rather than talent, determine which choreographers get commissions? We report on the state of an increasingly heated debate.

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Maina Gielgud, Béjart and “the lost art of épaulement”

Maina Gielgud talks about her career, a gift from Maurice Béjart, and ballet’s need to rediscover the  joy of movement

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"That's so Scottish Ballet..."

Christopher Hampson, Artistic Director and Chief Executive Officer  of Scottish Ballet, shares his ambitious plans for Scotland’s premier ballet company.

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Living the Dream in Ballett Zurich

Royal Ballet graduate Daniel Mulligan writes about his life as a dancer in Ballett Zurich in Switzerland’s most glamorous city.

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“He'd hold my hand and say, ‘No Vulgarity!’”

The acclaimed American ballerina Cynthia Harvey talks to balletposition.com about learning from Mikhail Baryshnikov and passing on his exacting standards

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"Do Class… Everyday!"

Iconic Dutch Ballerina Igone de Jongh talks to fellow Royal Ballet School alumnus Matthew Paluch exclusively for balletposition.com

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Audition advice from the Scottish Ballet Artistic Director Christopher Hampson

An invaluable piece of advice: make mobile technology and the internet work in your favour.

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A Very Special Pas-de-Deux

Ordinarily, Sophie Rance and Yassaui Megaliyev would never have met, let alone fallen in love and got married.

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