Svetlana Zakharova as Nikiya in La Bayadère, The Finnish National Ballet. Choreography and production: Natalia Makarova. Photographty (c) ...

1. Remain curious. Be open to new ideas, suggestions and corrections. With ballet practice relying so much on repetition, it's ea...

This is my teacher Marie Greve. Before she came to Helsinki, she was a Principal Dancer at the Royal Danish Ballet, and before that, she ...

It's been three weeks since my last ballet class. In the past nine years, three weeks is the longest I've gone without dance. Now...

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...