Ballet with Wendy Whelan

Length: 73 min. Level: Advanced-Intermediate Space: Large

Class Description:

The singular and legendary Wendy Whelan teaches for Dancio! This intermediate ballet class has music by Kai Ono and features dancers Jenny Ku and Kurtis Grinaldi from Ballet Academy East.

About Wendy

Wendy Whelan, widely considered one of the world’s leading dancers, began dance lessons at the age of three with Virginia Wooton in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. At the age of eight, she performed as a mouse in the Louisville Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker. From that first performance, she was smitten. “Once I got to perform — to see the dancers and to have an orchestra playing right there in the pit, and see stage makeup, see the costume designs up close — once I knew ballet was a collaborative effort for all of these incredible artists, that’s when I knew I wanted to do it for the rest of my life.”

Wendy began intense professional training at the Louisville Ballet Academy… Keep Reading