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Bonnie Mathis, former principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, co-founded and co-directs Ballet Arts Minnesota, and has been on the faculty of the Barbara Barker Center for Dance at the University of Minnesota for twenty years. Known for a beguiling lightheartedness, she also teaches for ABT's summer intensive and at the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center in Tivoli, New York, with Martine van Hamel and ABT director Kevin McKenzie. Writer Judith Brin Ingber spoke to Mathis in downtown Minneapolis.
WHAT DO YOU EMPHASIZE IN CLASS? Alignment, coordination, and musicality. In classical ballet, we have mental pictures of what needs to be achieved. These poses can't be executed without strength, so your work in class is both to attain and to maintain the classical poses. To have a healthy technique, you have to bring it...
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