One of the most common questions that professional dancers get asked is how we became professionals. Let's zoom in on one critical period: the pre-professional training phase. Although dancers have typically tackled several years of ballet classes by the time they decide to pursue it as a professional career, they are usually quite young when they and their parents make that important commitment to pursue vocational training.

Like any athlete, dancers dread injuries. Getting hurt can happen from chronic overuse, such as shin splints or stress fractures, or it can result from an acute injury, like an ankle sprain. Whatever the cause, injuries may lead to difficult setbacks both physically and mentally. I caught up with company demi-soloists Cassandra and Rowan to learn more about how their injuries and recoveries have impacted them as dancers.

Audition season allows dancers to learn, grow, and find their place in the ballet world. Here's what our dancers have to say about it.

The path to becoming a professional varies greatly from one dancer to another, but involves years of coordinated effort and study.

The start of Ballet Theatre of Maryland's season is only four weeks away! As we approach the first day of our season, the company is...