In this episode, 87 year-old Balanchine ballerina, Allegra Kent, sits down to talk about her life and career. Beginning with her...

Today I’d like to tie two topics together: My week-long look at Serenade ahead of its 90th anniversary, and the 59th annual SAB Workshop....

Who was Muriel Stuart? "She was born in 1903 in London and auditioned for Anna Pavlova at 8 years old. “When it came Stuart’s turn to...

Who was Helene Dudin? Helene Dudin was a Soviet trained ballerina who came to SAB in 1954. She was close friends with Tumey (Antonina...

Gelsey on being a student: “I developed a lot of inhibitions, complexes about my eyes [too big], my nose [too small], my complexion—every...

Who was Antonina Tumkovsky? “Born in Kiev on Aug. 21, 1905, Ms. Tumkovsky became a soloist in the Kiev Ballet but moved to Berlin during...

Who is Elise Reiman? “Reiman came into the School during its second term. ‘It was very exciting to be thereat that time. Balanchine was...

Who was Andrei Kramarevsky? “Dancing came from my family. My father was a ballet master; my mother was a dancer. All through my childhood...

Who was Stanley Williams? “[Stanley] Williams entered the Royal Theatre at nine. ‘The audition was very simple. You take your shoes and...

Who was Alexandra Danilova? Known to friends as “Choura” and known to students as simply “Madame”, Alexandra Danilova was born in 1904,...

Last week in the New York Public Library, I learned how to view things on microfilm, and I found this program from an early SAB...

Who was Felia Doubrovska? Doubrovska was born in 1896 and she trained at the Imperial Ballet School and joined the Mariinsky Ballet in...

Who was Anatole Oboukhoff? Anatole Oboukhoff was born in St. Petersburg in 1896. He studied at the Imperial Ballet School and went on to...

“On the fourth and top floor of an unprepossessing building which squats on the noisy northeast corner of Manhattan’s Madison Avenue and...

Who was Dorothie Littlefield? “She was the first American teacher hired by George Balanchine for his School of American Ballet and she...

Everyone is familiar with the iconic window lettering that read “School of American Ballet” at the Madison Avenue location which was home...

Who was Vladimiroff? Pierre Vladimiroff was one of the original teachers at SAB, teaching 33 years from 1934-1967. He had graduated from...

“The facility that greeted the students that opening day in 1934 was a spacious one with high ceilings. Most of the classes were given in...

Today marks the 90th Anniversary of the School of American Ballet. This month I'll be sharing content about the early days of SAB and...

In the first episode of the Immortal Icons of Dance Podcast, host Lauryn Johnson interviews Susan Pilarre about her life teaching for...