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Ballerinas Backstage: ballet, baby and beyond with Brooke Lockett
Photo: Justin Ridler Brooke Lockett is a former ballerina with the Australian Ballet, and now a multi-talented mum to daughter, Violet. Her beautiful Instagram profile …
How to hold onto a positive mindset when your hard work is being cancelled out by toxic people around you…
We’ve all been there. Right? Right. Up until recently, with the pandemic, your mindset has been your own business, because, well, everything was your own …
Ballerinas Backstage: Jane Casson – from ballerina to entrepreneur
Jane Casson is the principal teacher at City Adult Ballet, in Melbourne, Australia. Formerly a soloist dancer with The Australian Ballet and The Royal New Zealand …
Personal standards in dancers: how high is too high?
Many people rate their ‘worthiness’ against how well they are doing at living up to their own standards. Fine – if the standards are achievable, flexible and account for a certain amount of human error. What about when the standards are so impossibly high that they are unreachable? Then it can be a problem.
Ballerinas Backstage: Naomi Stienstra’s transition from student to professional
In this interview, we hear from the lovely Naomi Stienstra, who was one of the first dancers I worked with through enpointe consulting. She is …
Ballerinas Backstage: Dana Stephensen, senior artist with the Australian Ballet
Dana Stephensen is a senior artist with the Australian Ballet who compliments her onstage life with a very busy offstage life – being a mum …
