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Article Excerpt
It's a rainy day on New York's Upper East Side. Outside, the traffic streaks honking by, but inside Ballet Academy East, dancers are hard at work. Dance bags pile in a heap under the piano, and familiar Minkus music fills the studio. Students eye their reflections in the mirrored walls as they spin across the floor.
Standing in the center of a studio, Erica Pereira, 15, watches closely as ballerina Amanda McKerrow demonstrates several steps. Pereira and her classmates are learning La Bayadere's Act II, "Kingdom of the Shades," from McKerrow, a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, and her husband, John Gardner, a former ABT soloist and full-time teacher at the academy.
While not affiliated with any professional company, the academy attracts serious students like Pereira, and distinguished teachers like Gardner, Cheryl Yeager, Johan Renvall, Peter Frame, and Francis Patrelle. Pereira,...
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