Over the course of her career, Miami City Ballet’s Dawn Atkins has come to value herself as a whole person, not just as a dancer. The recently promoted principal credits this shift to finding inspiration from within and developing skills outside of ballet. Atkins spent her formative years as an artist at Boston Ballet, where […]
Tricia Albertson shares how 25 years at Miami City Ballet has gifted her two different careers. Over your 25 years at Miami City Ballet, you’ve worked for two artistic directors: Edward Villella and Lourdes Lopez. What kind of changes have you experienced working for two different leaders in the same place? I danced under Edward […]
When thinking about conditions in her beleaguered homeland, just days after arriving in Miami in late July, Ukrainian ballerina Yuliia Moskalenko looks out of an office window at Miami City Ballet and draws a deep breath. “Nobody is safe in Ukraine,” she says, referencing the family and friends she’s left behind. Her gray-tinged blue eyes […]
A week into final rehearsals for The Source, her second world premiere for Miami City Ballet, Claudia Schreier fine-tuned its closing section, keen on demonstrating tricky moves for the dancers but also huddling with them, balm in her voice. Later, Julius Eastman’s luminous music surged in the studio as advancing cadres of dancers opened up […]
This month, Miami City Ballet presents the highly anticipated North American premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s Swan Lake. Originally co-produced by Zurich Ballet and La Scala Ballet in 2016, Ratmansky’s version of the beloved classic harkens back to Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s 1895 original. This production marks the first time that MCB has performed a […]
Ask current Miami City Ballet corps member Juliet Hay to describe her first summer at Miami City Ballet School, and one word comes to mind first: “intense.” While that may sound obvious—aren’t all summer intensives by their very nature “intense”?—the word takes on deeper meaning when it comes to MCB School’s summer programming. “Not a […]
Andrei Chagas has taken many leaps of faith in his career. His latest has him landing back where it all started: After making his Broadway debut in the revival of Carousel and playing a Shark in the upcoming West Side Story film remake, he’s now returning to Miami City Ballet as a corps de ballet dancer. Chagas left his hometown […]
Flying across the stage in her February debut as the Firebird, Miami City Ballet’s Nina Fernandes was electrifying and commanding. MCB’s new Firebird production is sleeker and flashier than Balanchine and Robbins’ original, and Fernandes more than rose to the occasion, imbuing the role with an easy control and innate vivacity. A native of Brazil, […]