Search results for: Hamilton

Former New York City Ballet dancer Linda Hamilton, Ph.D., is a lecturer, a psychologist in private practice, and the author of Advice for Dancers (Jossey-Bass). She has been offering advice to Dance Magazine readers since 1992. Can switching pointe shoes to the opposite foot each day make them last longer? I don’t have much money […]

I’m concerned about a dancer in my company who uses drugs and alcohol. Management has asked him to go into rehab. He admitted he was struggling and entered a program. How can I help? We used to be friends before he had these problems. Can you tell me why this happens? Getting Sober New York, […]

I’m a director of a professional ballet company who’s stymied by the low self-esteem of two of my dancers, in spite of their undeniable talent and my positive input and steady support. I want to suggest therapy, particularly for one dancer who confided to me that she feels so worthless she can barely get out […]

Don’t call her work “activist art,” says choreographer Emily Johnson. Though the endangered natural environment has been her theme in several works, the soft-spoken, slender Johnson says she owes her vision as much to the exploratory vocabulary of contact improvisation as the natural world of her Alaskan childhood.   Praised by Minneapolis critics for the […]

Best known as the leading interpreter of Bob Fosse’s style of musical theater dance, Anne Reinking made famous her Broadway leads in Dancin’, Sweet Charity, and Chicago. Reinking has worked with many legendary artists, including Katherine Hepburn, Gwen Verdon, Tommy Tune, Joel Grey, Ben Vereen and choreographers Jerome Robbins and Fosse. She won the 1997 […]

I went to college eager to dance. I knew then that my body wasn’t built to do what it was asked to do in training—I didn’t have sufficient turnout, and my hips were tight, but I pushed myself physically to rise to every challenge. Years after I left Purchase College, I danced 10 seasons with […]

Former New York City Ballet dancer Linda Hamilton, Ph.D., is a lecturer, a psychologist in private practice, and the author of Advice for Dancers (Jossey-Bass). She has been offering advice to Dance Magazine readers since 1992. I thought the BFA program I’m in would be the one of my dreams, but it’s a huge disappointment. […]

Former New York City Ballet dancer Linda Hamilton, Ph.D., is a lecturer, a psychologist in private practice, and the author of Advice for Dancers (Jossey-Bass). She has been offering advice to Dance Magazine readers since 1992. I felt overwhelmed when I read that former Joffrey ballerina Erika Goodman had died at 59 after being anorexic […]