It’s that time of year again . . . school is back in session, extra-curricular activities are starting up, dance classes are in full swing, and yes, even Nutcracker rehearsals have started! What does this mean for us parents? It means trying to learn a new year of schedules (which we probably won’t have down until April), meal planning, figuring out who in the family is eating dinner at 4pm and who is eating at 8pm (and actually having dinner ready at those weird times), arra

It’s mid-August which means that we are on our second week of the 2017-2018 dance season and many of our students are beginning their academic school year. Coming out of the summer setting—the long, warm days, spending most of their time in the studio with their friends, having sleepovers, having movie nights, going on family vacations, and sometimes attending out-of-state ballet intensives—can take time for dancers to mentally and physically adjust to new routines. I attende

Front Range pianist and Colorado Ballet Society accompanist, Nina Miller, has created and released new dance class tracks with Disney inspired music titled, ‘Fairy Tale Music for Classical Ballet’. Downloads can be purchased online at Amazon: here and iTunes: here. “Disney is very particular about the way that their intellectual property is presented, so everything had to be approved,” says Miller. “We spent much time on the cover art and song names. It was important for us t