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My mornings are spent arranging, scheduling and emailing, while my afternoons and evenings are spent teaching and watching performances.
How does teaching adults differ from teaching children?
The pandemic gave me my first opportunity to teach anyone above 16. I found more freedom for me as a teacher speaking with adults.
I felt that I worked toward goals and in trying, I achieved the best I could at that moment.
Everyone is different. When Suki [Schorer] was teaching me, which was, I guess, 35 years ago, she was 100 percent full out. I had the opportunity to dance in so many Balanchine ballets. Sure, in a second, but it’s not realistic.
Journey with me, friends, as I ask Dena a lifetime of unanswered questions…
I saw you recently perform in a clip you shared on your Instagram. On any given day, you could log in from your living room, back porch, or bathroom and take class with teachers you only once dreamed of learning from. It has been a loss in my life in terms of missing the performing, missing the daily routine of taking class.
That influenced his style and therefore his training. I was lucky because Peter Martins called on me to do some character roles after I retired. The School of American Ballet, or SAB as it is affectionately called, is the first preeminent professional school of ballet in America. Abergel performed featured and soloist roles in a number of works by George Balanchine, including The Nutcracker®, Firebird, Coppélia, Swan Lake, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Upon retiring from performing in 2009, Ms.
Abergel joined SAB’s faculty and became NYCB’s Assistant Children’s Ballet Master. I would have gone on and on and on. As I got older and had a family I was always balancing and juggling.
Kids, career, college. It’s visual. I am creating a whole schedule that has to fit with City Ballet’s schedule, the kids’ academic schedules, SAB’s class schedule, and studio availability.
There are so many of us that dream of this!!
That’s highly unlikely at SAB. Maybe City Ballet one day.
It was like sigh, this is where I’m free, so I couldn’t wait.