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Just When We'd Stopped Crying About Wendy Whelan's NYCB Retirement…

…New York Magazine had to go and re-open that big bag of feels. This week’s issue of NYMag includes a gorgeous group of behind-the-scenes photos from Wendy Whelan’s final performance with New York City Ballet. We see a little of everything: the three pairs of pointe shoes she wore during the show, her last bow, an […]

A Backstage Pass

There’s something about the onstage glamour and sparkle of ballet that makes peeks at ballet dancers’ backstage lives extra thrilling. What goes on before they don those beautiful tutus? What’s happening to the feet inside those shiny pointe shoes? Even as a former ballet dancer who pretty much knows the answers to those questions—i.e., ballet […]