Alicia Graf Mack, who's also the youngest director to ever lead Juilliard’s dance division, is closing the curtain on ballet's stodgy, antiquated past.
. Mack’s staggering influence on the school, then, is both a sign of the times to come and a boon to the next generation of artists studying at The Juilliard School.
as the instructor pushes the dancers to send their center of gravity diving over to one side: “I’d rather see you go to the edge and fall off of it. Then you know where you need to be.”Mack’s work reshaping the 71-year-old division has been a series of swan dives in itself, though many have been informed by student suggestions.
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