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Cast Your Cover Model Vote!

We are so excited to introduce this year’s three Cover Model Search finalists: Hannah Bettes, Alyssa Ness and Megan Skalla! All three girls are fabulous and we had a blast with them during their time in NYC this April. You can read all about the three talented dancers in the July/August issue of DS (it […]

(More) Good News from Boston!

Boston Ballet’s new corps member, Hannah Bettes Photo by Nathan Sayers for DS (2012) At Dance Spirit, we’re clearly brimming with excitement about Whitney Jensen’s recent promotion to principal dancer at Boston Ballet. (You can read her amazing story here, and don’t forget to check out the behind-the-scenes video from our cover shoot!) But another […]

2012 Cover Model Search Finalist: Hannah Bettes

If you pictured a dream ballet dancer, you’d be seeing Hannah Bettes. The 16-year-old has gorgeous facility: impossible, effortless flexibility and crescent-moon feet. But watch her move, and it becomes clear she’s not just a Ballerina Barbie. She’s a smart dancer. When she gets a correction, it’s immediately absorbed, processed and—boom—problem solved. Though Hannah’s DS […]

The Top Three: Introducing the 2012 Cover Model Search Finalists

Megan, Alyssa and Hannah (Photo by Nathan Sayers) Each year, the Dance Spirit editors spend hours watching the videos dancers have uploaded in the Cover Model Search competition on dancemedia.com. And while that’s always entertaining—you superstars have some great technique and stellar stage presence!—what we really look forward to is the week when the three […]

Hannah Bettes

That impossibly elastic back. That up-to-there extension. Those out-of-this-world feet. It’s a no-brainer: 14-year-old Hannah Bettes was made to be a ballerina. And yet Hannah is shockingly new to the world of ballet. The Dallas, TX, native first began studying jazz and contemporary at The Dance P.A.D. (then known as Deltona Academy of Dance) in […]