When I looked at the Kuopio Dance Festival's course programme, I searched for ballet classes first. That's my main focus, ever...

Finnish National Ballet Summer Tour: Snork Maiden is about to be entangled by some flesh-eating Angosturas... Excerpt from Anandah Kononen...

A Midsummer Night's Dream, choreography by Jorma Elo. Pictured: Samuli Poutanen as Puck, with students of the Finnish National Balle...

"A pirouette is not a pirouette unless you complete it." I was practising my turns on the side, when I got the correction/repri...

Quality, not quantity. How many times have you heard it, and still felt frustrated because you can't developpé your leg past 90 degre...

My DNA dictates that I do not have a beautiful body for ballet. My hips are too wide, my popo too square, my thighs too round, my arms and ...

Sometimes, when we are doing agadio, arabesques and attitudes, I see myself in the mirror and think: it's never going to be beautiful...

Every adult ballet dancer should have at least one perfect go-to-leotard, the kind that makes you feel pretty even on a shitty day. I have ...

It was my third class with our guest teacher, and the tricky exercises were at last familiar. Not easy by any means, but I was no longer...

Another summer coming to an end... My dance studio's fall/winter semester begins today, and I have my first morning class already tom...

When I first found out about Finnish National Ballet's end-of-season ballet gala "Kenneth & Friends," I was over the moon...