dancer Archives - PlayJunkie PlayJunkie Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:50:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 World-class Ballerina Will Teach You Everything You Need to Know About Ballet https://playjunkie.com/world-class-ballerina-will-teach-you-everything-you-need-to-know-about-ballet/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:48:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=35854 There are few things on this planet that are as glamourous – and demanding – as ballet dancing. A professional ballerina starts her career as early as age six and spends years of grueling training to be able to perform incredible moves on stage. This lifestyle may be unique and interesting, but it’s also extremely […]

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]]> There are few things on this planet that are as glamourous – and demanding – as ballet dancing. A professional ballerina starts her career as early as age six and spends years of grueling training to be able to perform incredible moves on stage.

This lifestyle may be unique and interesting, but it’s also extremely inaccessible. Ballet lovers, aspiring dancers, and newbie ballerinas don’t get to see the behind-the-scenes of their favorite art too often – it’s not like you can just walk up to a ballerina after a performance and ask her about her day.

Kathryn Morgan decided to change that. A classically-trained ballerina and soloist with Miami City Ballet, when she was still training, she had no one to turn to and ask even the most basic questions – how to deal with the pressure, what to look out for, what essential items can get you through your day. So now that she’s an established dancer, she has decided to give back to her community, and share her tips, tricks and advice on YouTube.

Kathryn’s videos range from hauls to debunking myths about ballet. She shares facts about her routine, her favorite items, even stories about her injuries. Through her channel, she makes the incredible world of ballet a bit more accessible and might help new audiences fall in love with this old, magical art.

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]]> Meet Sarah Hartman: A Ballerina and An Illustrator https://playjunkie.com/meet-sarah-hartman-a-ballerina-and-an-illustrator/ Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:08:18 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=33137 A creative at heart, Sarah Hartman does anything from painting to sculpting, but her main focus is dancing and illustrating. As such, her illustrations tend to feature ballet dancers, focusing on the ways in which they use their bodies. A San Francisco native, Hartman works at a nonprofit by day, teaches fitness at night, and makes […]

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]]> A creative at heart, Sarah Hartman does anything from painting to sculpting, but her main focus is dancing and illustrating. As such, her illustrations tend to feature ballet dancers, focusing on the ways in which they use their bodies. A San Francisco native, Hartman works at a nonprofit by day, teaches fitness at night, and makes tons and tons of art whenever the opportunity arises.

“Being a dancer gives you a kind of fluency in another language, in what parts of the body you emphasize, how they look, ways that they move,” she relayed in an interview with CreativeFluff Magazine. “I tend to always incorporate hyperextended legs and arched feet in full-body pictures because it’s what I’m used to seeing in the studio. Being surrounded by that for so many years really shaped my view of bodies and proportions. Probably in a very unnatural way!”

Her illustrations are vibrant, loose, and full of movement. “I definitely went through a lot of phases,” she said, describing her creative journey. “I read a lot of comic books as a kid; my brother and I would sit for hours reading collections passed down to us from our uncle. That influenced me for a long time and still does. I fell into more classical art and portraiture for a while, as I got more serious, and recently have found a kind of happy medium between the two.”

She especially likes the expressiveness of graphic novels, to which she adds more classical techniques of character developing. “I really love a lot of engraving-style work, the old detailed plates, and I’ve gone back to that influence lately,” she says.

Follow her artistic lifestyle on Instagram:

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]]> ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> dancer Archives - PlayJunkie PlayJunkie Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:50:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 World-class Ballerina Will Teach You Everything You Need to Know About Ballet https://playjunkie.com/world-class-ballerina-will-teach-you-everything-you-need-to-know-about-ballet/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:48:00 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=35854 There are few things on this planet that are as glamourous – and demanding – as ballet dancing. A professional ballerina starts her career as early as age six and spends years of grueling training to be able to perform incredible moves on stage. This lifestyle may be unique and interesting, but it’s also extremely […]

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]]> There are few things on this planet that are as glamourous – and demanding – as ballet dancing. A professional ballerina starts her career as early as age six and spends years of grueling training to be able to perform incredible moves on stage.

This lifestyle may be unique and interesting, but it’s also extremely inaccessible. Ballet lovers, aspiring dancers, and newbie ballerinas don’t get to see the behind-the-scenes of their favorite art too often – it’s not like you can just walk up to a ballerina after a performance and ask her about her day.

Kathryn Morgan decided to change that. A classically-trained ballerina and soloist with Miami City Ballet, when she was still training, she had no one to turn to and ask even the most basic questions – how to deal with the pressure, what to look out for, what essential items can get you through your day. So now that she’s an established dancer, she has decided to give back to her community, and share her tips, tricks and advice on YouTube.

Kathryn’s videos range from hauls to debunking myths about ballet. She shares facts about her routine, her favorite items, even stories about her injuries. Through her channel, she makes the incredible world of ballet a bit more accessible and might help new audiences fall in love with this old, magical art.

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]]> Meet Sarah Hartman: A Ballerina and An Illustrator https://playjunkie.com/meet-sarah-hartman-a-ballerina-and-an-illustrator/ Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:08:18 +0000 https://playjunkie.com/?p=33137 A creative at heart, Sarah Hartman does anything from painting to sculpting, but her main focus is dancing and illustrating. As such, her illustrations tend to feature ballet dancers, focusing on the ways in which they use their bodies. A San Francisco native, Hartman works at a nonprofit by day, teaches fitness at night, and makes […]

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]]> A creative at heart, Sarah Hartman does anything from painting to sculpting, but her main focus is dancing and illustrating. As such, her illustrations tend to feature ballet dancers, focusing on the ways in which they use their bodies. A San Francisco native, Hartman works at a nonprofit by day, teaches fitness at night, and makes tons and tons of art whenever the opportunity arises.

“Being a dancer gives you a kind of fluency in another language, in what parts of the body you emphasize, how they look, ways that they move,” she relayed in an interview with CreativeFluff Magazine. “I tend to always incorporate hyperextended legs and arched feet in full-body pictures because it’s what I’m used to seeing in the studio. Being surrounded by that for so many years really shaped my view of bodies and proportions. Probably in a very unnatural way!”

Her illustrations are vibrant, loose, and full of movement. “I definitely went through a lot of phases,” she said, describing her creative journey. “I read a lot of comic books as a kid; my brother and I would sit for hours reading collections passed down to us from our uncle. That influenced me for a long time and still does. I fell into more classical art and portraiture for a while, as I got more serious, and recently have found a kind of happy medium between the two.”

She especially likes the expressiveness of graphic novels, to which she adds more classical techniques of character developing. “I really love a lot of engraving-style work, the old detailed plates, and I’ve gone back to that influence lately,” she says.

Follow her artistic lifestyle on Instagram:

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