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From Class to Performance: How to Enhance Your Appreciation of Ballet

A ballet student writes :Last month, I was lucky enough to see Mayerling performed by The Royal Ballet in London. It was stunning: the dancing was so crisp, so clean, so clear. I don’t think my appreciation for these performances would have been quite so nuanced had I not had the opportunity to study ballet.

Dancers at rehearsal

We the dancers codify and select and develop our movements to speak from these depths and to find the appropriate gestures and movements to express our deepest and most authentic response to an idea, a piece of music, a story or…