A Chance to move | Thinking on your toes
Most Yale courses don’t have a dress code. Then again, most students spend class sitting at a desk. But for the students of Emily Coates ’06, tights and a leotard is expected.
On a Wednesday afternoon, 12 girls enter a pristine studio in the newly-minted Broadway Rehearsal Lofts. They spend the first hour on a contemporary ballet barre, rejecting what Coates calls “bolt upright torsos” and instead embracing “flexibility of the spine.”
She emphasizes fluidity, a thread of movement throughout, as they develop the “kinesthetic foundation” for Twyla Tharp’s 1971 piece...
Really strong article on an important topic. And a note to the online editor: the bolded section headings look great. Keep doing that! I can finally read scene covers online!