by Laura Cappelle | Nov 20, 2013 | Company Life
Royal Danish corps member Carling Talcott’s long struggle with her weight nearly cost her a ballet career. As told to Laura Cappelle Growing up, food was a non-issue. I had long legs and a short torso; I could eat whatever I wanted without losing my figure, and...
by Ashley Rivers | Nov 20, 2013 | Company Life
This story originally appeared in the December 2013/January 2014 issue of Pointe. When Pacific Northwest Ballet School student Madison Abeo was accepted into San Francisco Ballet School’s summer session on a partial scholarship, she was thrilled. But then she...
by Joseph Carman | Nov 20, 2013 | Company Life
Photography by Quinn Wharton When Dance Theatre of Harlem made its comeback last April at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the company and its admirers exhaled a collective sigh of relief. “Having that behind us gives us a level of confidence,” says DTH artistic...
by Roslyn Sulcas | Sep 23, 2013 | Company Life
Carlos Acosta. The name is almost synonymous with great male dancing, calling up an image of a performer whose combination of athletic dynamism, refined classicism and onstage magnetism have made him a superstar from just about the start of his career. Born and raised...
by Amy Brandt | Sep 22, 2013 | Features, Inside PT, Profiles
It’s a beautiful evening in May, but inside the Metropolitan Opera House the atmosphere is hushed and filled with foreboding. As Lensky in American Ballet Theatre’s Onegin, Joseph Gorak enters the darkened stage. It is a pivotal scene. Heartbroken over a...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Sep 22, 2013 | Company Life
Photography by Casey Herd The gypsy goddess of contemporary ballet has found a home: Nederlands Dans Theater. But although the avant-garde company in The Hague seems like a natural fit for Drew Jacoby’s fierce style, she was rejected when she initially...
by Dana Glassman | Jul 22, 2013 | Profiles
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of anticipation in a theater before a curtain rises. Toronto’s cultural elite had gathered one summer night in 2006 to celebrate the National Ballet of Canada’s move into the Four Seasons Centre for the...
by Dana Glassman | Jul 22, 2013 | Features, Inside PT, Profiles
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of anticipation in a theater before a curtain rises. Toronto’s cultural elite had gathered one summer night in 2006 to celebrate the National Ballet of Canada’s move into the Four Seasons Centre for the...