When the curtain falls, your work isn’t over: That’s exactly when post-show recovery begins. According to Carina Nasrallah, Houston Methodist athletic trainer for Houston Ballet, timing is everything. The 30 minutes after a performance is the optimal window to start combatting soreness and encourage muscle repair. Here, she shares the essential elements of a recovery…

Here are five penned-by-dancers titles, out now, to add to your TBR pile. Being a Ballerina: The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life Gavin Larsen’s memoir oftentimes reads more like a novel than an autobiography. In the Preface, she confesses that her “dancer-self” sometimes seems like a different person when she looks back. So…

Written by: Maggie Small published at: https://www.pointemagazine.com/ Maté Szentes, a native of Pécs, Hungary, trained at the Hungarian Dance Academy. Upon graduating, he joined the Hungarian National Ballet for three seasons. While he enjoyed dancing in a big company, with 120 dancers, he had a strong urge to live and dance in the U.S. As…