PowerPointe

23/04/2024

It took me 3 years to decide to write this, but it only took me two hours to write this. If you’ve never owned a pair of pointe shoes in your life, this is still for you. 🩰

Photo Credit: Brittani Lam Photo Description: Kenya Ross sitting on concrete wearing her leotard, tights and pointe shoes with ankles crossed You can say this is something like an open letter. Or maybe it's a mixture of two things: telling the ballet community where PowerPointe is headed, and remind...

30/08/2022

Share ways on how you prep to audition for a ballet company!

Auditions for our 3rd season is this Saturday, 9/3! PBC is open to dancers from any dance studio in our surrounding areas. If you have a dancer wanting to train and perform more, this is for you!

07/03/2022

Happy Birthday to our founder’s 1st ballet teacher! 🎉

Help us wish a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Mrs. Michelle Harvey! With her unmatched poise and grace, we are so blessed to have her as part of our LLSD and TCB family. 💜🩰🎂

25/02/2022

🌟🩰 Dancewear stores are a vital source for young dancers.

In fact, the journey of a ballerina typically begins at a dancewear store. For this reason, a dancewear store has the ability to serve as a starting point for dance education and the history of dancers; especially black dancers and additional minority groups.

As Black History Month comes to an end, Kenya Ross spoke with a ballerina and her mother about an opportunity her daughter had to display a project inside a Capezio store - celebrating black dancers.

Find Allie's display inside the dancewear store: https://bit.ly/35pIsJ4

24/02/2022

A new story is on the way! 🌟

Founder/Dance Journalist Kenya Ross of PowerPointe will be interviewing her first guests of 2022 - a ballerina and her mother.

Before releasing the interview, let’s have a chat about dancewear stores.

Talk about your own personal experience inside a dancewear store as a new student, seasoned student, dance teacher or dance studio owner. Responses can range from a shoe fitting, relationships between dancewear store owners and local dance schools, what you’ve seen on the walls, etc.

What has it been like for you? 🩰

22/10/2021

🩰 ⭐ "Notice the room." - One of the lessons that Alonzo King LINES Ballet's Erin McKay is taking back to the studio from her home studio.

As the ballet community wraps up World Ballet Day, which we all celebrated Tuesday, Kenya Ross and Erin McKay discuss a dancer's ode to home studios and the home studio's powerful purpose during the pandemic. Watch the full interview: https://bit.ly/3b4dPIA

19/10/2021

An exciting day for ballerinas all over the globe 🌎 has finally arrived. It’s ! 🩰

Today’s the perfect day to ask a follow up question for dancers. How does it feel to be back in the studio after temporarily using your own home as a studio?

Thursday, we’ll release an interview with Alonzo King LINES Ballet’s Editor/Writer & Content Manager Erin McKay on her ode to home studios.

But for now… talk to us about being back at the studio! Happy World Ballet Day! 🤩🩰

Photo Description: A pile of donated ballet shoes at one of the ballet companies PowerPointe’s Founder Kenya Ross visited in San Francisco Oct. 4, 2021.

14/07/2021

⭐🩰 It's about connecting with the ones who live next to you. To make the dance scene more visible in communities, dance education has to be more accessible. Dance studio owner Sherricka Jones of The Play Station - Dance and Fitness talks with Kenya on PowerPointe, and explains why granting access to dance education is important for children in north Louisiana.

Listen to the full interview online as Sherricka speaks on her experience receiving dance training in her hometown and how it's helped her grow as a dance leader in her own community: https://bit.ly/3khc9l6

06/07/2021

Ever since the beginning of PowerPointe, we have stepped inside coffee shops and have gone coffee shop scouting... all for the creamy goodness (if you like cream in your coffee) of brown ballerinas.

As a ballet digital media production brand, learn why we partner with coffee shops and why we take sips of coffee for brown ballerinas around the world: https://bit.ly/3dNAfj5 ☕ 🩰

28/06/2021

Life happens. Artistic directors and additional staff members have unexpected tasks to handle outside of the dance studio. This doesn’t mean classes should get cancelled for the day.

ICYMI: Read why every dance school should consider having a substitute dance instructor list: https://bit.ly/3qy9Ivt

Are you a dance school owner building your substitute list or a freelance instructor/choreographer looking to be added to a list?

Talk about your experience below! 💫

Dance School Location: The Play Station in Shreveport, LA

📸: Vanguard Creative

27/06/2021

One dance school owner in Shreveport, LA is working to build a substitute instructor list. In July, we'll have The Play Station - Dance and Fitness on PowerPointe to discuss the dance school's goal of granting the Shreveport - Bossier City community access to dance education, and why it's important for children in north Louisiana.

Location of photo: The Play Station in Shreveport, LA Photo Credit: Vanguard Creative Being in the position as a dance studio owner, take a moment to reflect on how your dance school has evolved. Your list could possibly include a supportive and reliable staff, a studio with more space, newly purcha...