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It involves, of all things, corsets.
Yanowsky’s two babies are not unrelated. While the choreographer and his wife were visiting his family in Spain with the happy news that they were expecting, discussion turned to the old tradition of wearing a corset post-partum to help support healing muscles and slim the figure. Yanowsky’s mother, a former dancer, brought out his grandmother’s old corset, and Combes tried it on for fun. Yanowsky grabbed hold and began playfully twirling his wife around. An idea was born.
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While, historically, corsets have been used for constriction, the 42-year-old Yanowsky saw only freedom and possibility. He began experimenting with an expanded range of partnering, developing new techniques to take advantage of what the corsets could facilitate. Boston Ballet’s manager of costumes and wardrobe, Charles Heightchew, designed and customized the handmade corsets with handles that allow the male dancers to manipulate their female partners very differently from the way they do in traditional partnering. Swings and swivels, lifts and carries, suspensions and balances, slides and glides — all have a visceral physicality. The handles also facilitat
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Exchange Street Studio is proud to work with only the most talented instructors in all styles of dance and cross training. Guest faculty currently and has included: Lia Cirio, Principal Dancer of Boston Ballet; Kathleen Breen Combes, Principal Dancer, Boston Ballet; Cailtin Abraham, Dancer, Christopher Wheeldon’s An American in Paris; and Daniela Sabbath, former School Principal, Portland School of Ballet.
List of Previous Guest Faculty:
Lia Cirio, Principal Dancer Boston Ballet
Lia Cirio began her training at Swarthmore Ballet Theatre with Lori Ardis. She went on to train at the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet under the direction of Marcia Dale Weary and Darla Hoover, where she also studied privately with Theresa Crawford and Rafael Grigorian. At the age of 16, she was awarded a Level One award from the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts and was a Presidential Scholar in the Arts finalist. She was also awarded the top scholarship and Founders’ Award presented by Barbara Weisberger at the Regional Dance America Festival. The same year, she was invited by Mikko Nissinen to join Boston Ballet II, and was Boston Ballet’s Princess Grace nominee for 2004. She was promoted to Boston Ballet’s corps de ballet in 2004, to second soloi