Leslie Nolte has been a pillar of the Iowa City arts community for decades. Since opening Nolte Academy 25 years ago, she has fostered arts education for dancers and actors after the confines of their ...

The spring semester is coming to a close, but the University of Iowa decided to make strides in student accessibility before it fully rolled away. On March 26, UI launched a change to ICON, the ...

When Leslie Nolte’s daughter was 12 years old, she attended an open-call audition in Chicago, and with a tap of the shoulder, she was recruited to the Houston Ballet. What began as a full-ride ...

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