Ballet AZ Blog

Featuring Costume Director Leonor Texidor

Behind The Scenes with Ballet Arizona’s Costume Shop

Featuring Costume Director Leonor Texidor How many individuals are on the Ballet Arizona Costume staff? [LT] For Ballet Arizona, it…

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Get To Know Me

Featuring Ballet Arizona’s Dancer Serafin Castro Serafin Castro joined Ballet Arizona in 2018. To learn more about him, click here…

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Tips For Beginning Ballet

Helpful To Know Before You Go Stretching- Before most activities and sports, people stretch, same with ballet. It may not…

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A Dancer Tells You All About Pointe Shoes

Featuring Ballet Arizona’s Dancer Eastlyn Jensen [Q] How many pointe shoes do you think you go through per season? [EJ]…

Ballet Arizona dancer in the wings for Ib Andersen's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Photo by Rosalie O'Connor.

Ballet Slippers vs Pointe Shoes

Learn The Anatomy and Purpose Behind Ballet Footwear Ballet slippers or pointe shoes are crucial to a ballet dancer’s wardrobe.…

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10 Things You Should Know About Cinderella

Featuring Principle Dancers: Jillian Barrell and Helio Lima Looking for fun things to do with the family from Oct. 20-23…

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“Cinderella” – A Fairy-Tale With Familiarity

The Ballet vs Walt Disney While many of us are familiar with Cinderella from Walt Disney, this ballet is more…

Obscene, Crude, & Hilarious- Cinderella’s Stepsisters

Obscene, Crude, & Hilarious- Cinderella’s Stepsisters

Preformed by Male Ballet Dancers A casting choice that may come to a shock in such a traditional world, since the…

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Opening Night: An Interview with Ib Andersen

I got a question where I was asked, “What is the theme of this season”? That is a really hard…

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