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  • EP0026 CASEY HERD | BALLET RISING

    EP0026 CASEY HERD | BALLET RISING

    Welcome to this special interview with Jozef Varga (Principal Het Nationale Ballet) and Casey Herd (Founder of Ballet Rising). We have heard many stories from dancers around the world, but what about the story of our own Casey? “When dancers stop dancing, they have to re-invent themselves.” Learn in this interview how Casey started from

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  • EP0025 DANIEL CAMARGO | BRAZIL

    EP0025 DANIEL CAMARGO | BRAZIL

    The Brazilian dancer started dancing at the age of 10 in Ourinhos. He joined the John Cranko School in Stuttgart in 2005 and graduated four years later. He was a pupil of the famous Russian master Peter Pestov. At the end of his studies, he joined the Corps de Ballet of the Stuttgart Ballet. After

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  • EP0024 MATZ SKOOG | UNITED KINGDOM

    EP0024 MATZ SKOOG | UNITED KINGDOM

    Learn about Matz Skoog, a Swedish dancer and director and the artistic director of English National Ballet from 2001 to 2005.

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  • BRINGING THE INTERNATIONAL TO THE DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET JUNIOR COMPANY

    BRINGING THE INTERNATIONAL TO THE DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET JUNIOR COMPANY

    Almost exactly a year ago, Ernst Meisner had agreed to be interviewed for an article to appear here on Ballet Rising to discuss a tour that the Dutch National Ballet Junior Company would take in Indonesia, but in the intervening time between arranging the interview and it actually happening, the world went into lockdown. Unbeknownst…

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  • EP0023 FLAVIO SALAZAR | COLOMBIA

    EP0023 FLAVIO SALAZAR | COLOMBIA

    Flavio Salazar, a native of Colombia, where he began his dance studies at the Instituto Colombiano de Ballet (Incolballet). He joined Ballet de Cali and also joined the faculty of Incolballet, having been certified by the National Ballet of Cuba to teach its methodology and pedagogy in ballet technique. Mr. Salazar went on to study

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