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Passing the torch: coaching young artists for the New York International Ballet Competition.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAR-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Passing the torch: coaching young artists for the New York International Ballet Competition.(Coping With Criticism)

Article Excerpt
Inside three New York City studios, 48 young ballet dancers work intensely, absorbing three vastly different pieces of choreography. Every second counts as all eyes focus on a coach. This figure--singing out counts, correcting, demonstrating, and encouraging with exclamations like "Breathe. Extend. Good!"--is giving each dancer an invaluable opportunity: A chance to shine at the New York International Ballet Competition.

At the last NYIBC in 2003, four coaches--Thomas Lund and Era Kloborg of the Royal Danish Ballet, Roxane D'Orleans Juste of the Limon Dance Company, and Martine van Hamel, former American Ballet Theatre star (who co-founded Kaatsbaan International Dance Center and currently instructs at ABT's new Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School)--taught a pas de deux from their respective company's repertoire. From these luminaries, the international group of dancers, age 17 to 24, learned three technically challenging dances in less than 21 days.

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