Welcome to the Kinetic Conversations series on pre-professional dance programs, featuring the Fort Wayne Ballet Summer Intensive program. Over three episodes, Artistic Director Karen Gibbons-Brown sits down with professional dancers Talbot Rue, Jessica Humphrey, and Abby Zinsser, and graduating pre-professional GiGi McDowell to discuss this all-important phase in a young dancer’s training.

Part two of our podcast on the Summer Intensive also finishes out our pre-professional series. We discuss what life is like for intensive students living in the dorms for a couple of weeks, hear from more of our intensive students from all over the country, and hear about training from one of our guest instructors. Thank you for joining us in this informative look at pre-pro training.