Sentences with phrase «ballet as a dancer»

Having made it to the highest ranks of ballet as a dancer from an unlikely background (she once lived in a motel with her mother and siblings), she has been an inspiration to girls everywhere.

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The idea for the product came from her background as a New York City Ballet dancer.

After years of using a bureau as my home ballet bar, I discovered a few amazing companies that make great ballet bars for the home dancer.

She had enough talent as a dancer to perform with the San Francisco Ballet as a nine - year - old, but she quit when told she'd need to devote herself to it full time.

But it wasn't until we introduced her to the theme of the shoot — ballet inspired — that we learned of her background as a ballet dancer.

No matter what you may think of them, and personally I see the modern forward as something close to a ballet dancer with father issues, any team with hopes of trophy success needs at least one star man up front to put the ball in the back of the net.

Her mother, Rene, who had a brief career as a professional dancer, runs a dancing school in downtown Windsor, and Ernie had been taking ballet and acrobatic dancing since she was 4.

I knew that some players in the NFL have done Pilates, too, which should not come as a shock for those of us old enough to remember that, in addition to being a great running back, former UGA and Dallas Cowboy player Hershel Walker was a ballet dancer!

isleading promotion such as Danone's Aptamil advertising (below) implies its follow - on formula turns babies into mathematical geniuses and gives them the strength, stamina and balance to be ballet dancers.

Misleading promotion such as Danone's Aptamil advertising (below) implies its follow - on formula turns babies into mathematical geniuses and gives them the strength, stamina and balance to be ballet dancers.

I work as a ballet dancer and I always need quick, healthy lunches to take with me.

The Juilliard School has named former New York City Ballet principal dancer Damian Woetzel as its new president, effective July 2018.

«Our aim was to find out the long - term impact of the cortical changes that occur as one goes from learning a motor sequence to becoming an expert at it,» says coauthor Rachel Bar, who was a ballet dancer herself.

So physical therapists often recommend Pilates, as was done in a physical therapy office in Chicago, where we joyously worked with professional dancers of Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Hubbard Street Dance Company, River North, and visiting dancers of the American Ballet Theater.

«Having a dancer's type of enhanced flexibility has not only had its benefits physically in my career as a ballet dancer but also socially and mentally,» she says.

As the first African - American female principal dancer for the American Ballet Theater, Misty has repeatedly defied odds in the face of the traditional and competitive dance norms — all with grace, power, and perspective.

I got my first job as a professional dancer with the New York City Ballet at age 16.

A born Vancouverite with some worldly experience, including years as a devout Ballet dancer, turned model, turned designer and entrepreneur.

As a former professional ballet dancer, Edwina found the salubrious world of Yoga quenched her search for deep body awareness and spiritual proliferation.

As a professional ballet dancer in my 20s I ate whatever I wanted - was athletically active and «naturally» thin.

From professional ballet and jazz dancer as well as child actress on Broadway to registered nurse, homemaker & mom, Jan's pursuit of health & fitness for herself & the rest of the world seems to be her calling.

After an accomplished career as principal dancer with the City Ballet of Toronto and the Atlantic Ballet Company, Moira Merrithew went on to retrain and certify as a Pilates instructor under the tutelage of Romana Kryzanowska at the original studio founded by the late Joseph H. Pilates.

I read that women with really toned legs, such as ballet dancers, get a form of cellulite that is harder and typically more painful than the soft kind.

I've never been overweight so maybe I don't understand what it's like to endure true scorn, however, I did encounter general bitchiness as a teenage ballet dancer, where there seemed to be an ongoing contest as to who could look the most in need of a sandwich.

There is a new study showing that in ballet dancers, it is extreme range of motion rather than hip joint structure, that leads to hip pathologies that may eventually require surgery such as thinning of articular cartilage, labral tears and osteoarthritis.

Today, in friendly cooperation with NeoNail, we would like to show you two ways of styling your hands in a perfect dancer's style: First, as a ballet dancer in a soft rose nude, and secondly, as a spectator at the theatre, wearing a glamorous outfit!

Sorry, as a former classically trained ballet dancer, I notice whenever a blogger is in releve.

ABOUT BLACK SWAN: A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet, BLACK SWAN stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company (Mila Kunis).

As a ballet dancer, you put your body under a tremendous amount of stress.

As a former dancer (ballet, jazz, African), I stand 5» 6» in height and...

Strippers are moonlighting as professional ballet dancers.

When 25 - year - old NYCB dancer Justin Peck begins to emerge as a promising young choreographer, he is commissioned to create a new ballet for the Company's 2013 Winter Season.

Adapted from the 2013 novel of the same name by former CIA operative Jason Matthews, Sparrow casts Lawrence as Dominika Egorova, an accomplished Russian ballet dancer who suffers a painful, career - derailing injury in her introductory scene.

With unprecedented access to an elite world, the film follows Peck as he collaborates with musicians, lighting designers, costume designers and his fellow dancers to create Paz de la Jolla, NYCB's 422nd new ballet.

We can rigidly train ourselves to perform great physical feats of athleticism or art (the way Domenika does as a ballet dancer).

In 1999, Saldana received what seemed to be the ideal first film role when she was cast as a talented but snippy dancer vying for a spot at the fictional American Ballet Company in the dance drama Center Stage.

RESET depicts renowned choreographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied as he attempts to rejuvenate the Paris Opera Ballet in his new position as director.

Later, as a favor to his wife, the documentary filmmaker husband lets Ned assist him, and on one of Dylan's shoots, a ballet academy, he catches both the director and dancer in various states of undress.

A British - born performer who trained formally as a ballet dancer, Will Kemp gained widespread acclaim for such accomplishments as his lead contribution to Matthew Bourne's production of Swan Lake — with a cast that consisted almost exclusively of men.

A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City ballet, BLACK SWAN stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company (Mila Kunis).

Dario Argento's Suspiria stars Jessica Harper as a dancer who goes to a dance academy in Germany to study ballet.

Lawrence may not be a natural ballet dancer but she looks convincing enough as she leaps and pirouettes.

Raised in Argentina and the U.K. as the youngest of six children, the former ballet dancer already has shot lead roles in Morgan, Fox's sci - fi thriller directed by Luke Scott, Ridley Scott's son, and M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller Split.

Stunningly gorgeous and delicate in both subject and treatment, Reset depicts renowned choreographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied (also known for choreographing the dance sequences in Black Swan) as he attempts to rejuvenate the Paris Opera Ballet in his new position as director.

On the other hand, its bouts of lurid violence and voyeuristic sex feel as if they've been dragged in from somewhere trashier, like the Taken films or something with Sylvester Stallone in it.Jennifer plays Dominika Egorova, formerly a star dancer at Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet who is forced to quit after a bone - crunching onstage collision.

The daughter of a financial advisor and a teaching assistant, she trained as a ballet dancer until heel spurs ruined that dream.

In real life, though, the former fencer and classical dancer, who once performed as Clara in the Sacramento Ballet's production of The Nutcracker, was much more engaged than her apathetic onscreen counterpart.

Natalie Portman is stunning as Nina Sayers, the increasingly brittle and volatile star ballet dancer who teeters on the edge of sanity, bristling against Mila Kunis in lithe, purring form.

A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City Ballet, Black Swan stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company (Mila Kunis).

Violent, erotic, using synthesised music and shot in a piercing form of early Technicolor, it stars Jessica Harper as an American dancer going to study at a German ballet school in the Black Forest where horrific murders are being perpetrated.