Pointe: My Experience as a Black Ballerina in a World of Implicit Bias
Chyrstyn Mariah Fentroy shares her experience as a Black woman in an art form (and world) filled with bias and racism.
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Sheridan Road Magazine: Elevating Women
DDP Founder and President Liza Yntema is interviewed by Allison Duncan for Sheridan Road Magazine. Liza discusses effective philanthropy, leadership, and DDP.
Modern Healthcare: Women health workers are at risk for mental health issues during COVID-19
Health systems are addressing employee mental health. They are finding that women are most at-risk.
The Washington Post: How Natalia Makarova changed the ballet world with this landmark production
ABT would have celebrated the 40th anniversary of Natalia Makarova’s La Bayadere this week.
Pointe: Alabama Ballet’s Repertoire Offers Dancers Chances to Perform Works by Some of Ballet’s Biggest Names
22 May 2020 By Rachel Hellwig Flocks of swans, waltzing flowers, bourréeing phantoms and leaping princes are all regular sights in rehearsals at Alabama Ballet’s downtown Birmingham studios. Throughout its […]
Vox: Women are burned out at work and at home
18 May 2020 By Emily Stewart Sheryl Sandberg on the “double-double shift” women are working during the coronavirus. Amid the coronavirus crisis, millions of Americans are working from home and trying to balance their […]
The Guardian: BalletBoyz: Deluxe review – striking dances packed with talent
26 March 2020 By Lyndsey Winship With their 20th anniversary tour now on hold, BalletBoyz rise to meet the challenge of theatreland going digital, taking their new show Deluxe online to launch […]
The Lily: ‘I had to choose being a mother’: With no child care or summer camps, women are being edged out of the workforce
22 May 2020 By Caroline Kitchener If day cares closed because of the novel coronavirus, Aimee expected her family to fare better than most. She worked full time as the […]
Broadway World: San Francisco’s Ballet’s Free Weekly Streams Run Through The Month Of June
22 May 2020 By BWW News Desk San Francisco Ballet announces further free weekly streams on SF Ballet @ Home, featuring commissioned works from the 2018 Unbound festival and other notable ballets […]
DDP Debuts Global Conversations Series With 9 Top Female Choreographers
Dance Data Project® (DDP) today introduces Round 1 of Global Conversations – The Creative Process, an ongoing online series of bite-size interviews that feature some of the most notable choreographers, artistic and executive directors, dance critics, and senior academics working in ballet today.
