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Onstage This Week: Stars Abound at the Fire Island Dance Festival, Maria Kochetkova Takes the Joyce and More!

Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights. Star-Studded Fire Island Dance Festival Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary  Festival season is in full swing. July 19-21 marks Long Island’s 25th Fire Island Dance Festival, a benefit series in support of Dancers Responding to AIDS. This year’s line up is chock full […]

Maria Kochetkova on Freelance Life, Her New Show at the Joyce Theater and More

Maria Kochetkova‘s first season as a freelancer has been a whirlwind! A year after leaving San Francisco Ballet, she’s already guested in Oslo, Berlin and London. Now, she’s got something exciting in the works: From July 16-20, New York City’s Joyce Theater will present her first solo program, Maria Kochetkova: Catch Her If You Can. […]

Maria Kochetkova to Leave San Francisco Ballet

San Francisco Ballet announced this morning that principal dancer Maria Kochetkova will leave the company at the the end of the 2017–18 season. Her final performance date has not yet been announced, but it will be sometime during the company’s Unbound Festival, April 20–May 6. Kochetkova joined SFB as a principal in 2007, hired out […]

Bicoastal Ballerina: Inside Maria Kochetkova's Fabulous Life

This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. Maria Kochetkova has a voracious appetite for inspiration. A principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet since 2007, she spent the last few years guesting with American Ballet Theatre during their spring season. “ABT is very different from SFB—it has a very different rep, […]

Maria Kochetkova's New Fashion Line

“And I stood and was silent. And he was silent. And I stood, silent. And he was silent.” Maria sporting the words of Daniil Kharms. Photo courtesy of Koche-Kova. Jumping on a couch and tossing what appear to be birthday bows, Maria Kochetkova appears in one of two promotional photos for her new clothing line, […]

Studio to Street: Maria Kochetkova

You’ll never catch this San Francisco Ballet star looking ordinary. Kochetkova fills her wardrobe with bold one-of-a-kind finds and pieces that make her laugh. But what’s most impressive is how she puts everything together into fantastical outfits that are truly her own. “I’m always mixing different prints that most people would say are unmixable,” she […]

A Free Soul: Bolshoi-Trained Maria Kochetkova Soars at San Francisco Ballet

Things are not going perfectly in a rehearsal of the Grand Pas de Deux from Helgi Tomasson’s Nutcracker, and San Francisco Ballet principal Maria Kochetkova is not happy. A running leap onto the shoulder of partner Gennadi Nedvigin lands acceptably, but merely okay doesn’t satisfy Kochetkova. “I just have to find a way…one, two, three, […]