by Laura Cappelle | Nov 21, 2016 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
Staatsballett Berlin principal Iana Salenko talks to us about guestings, salsa music and her knack for design. What are you most proud of in your career? I’m a tiny dancer, so to dance roles for tall ballerinas I would never have dreamed about, like Swan...
by Natalia Boesch | Oct 12, 2016 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2016 issue of Pointe. Why did you make the move from Dance Theatre of Harlem to The Washington Ballet? I had been at DTH for 13 years, and I wanted to see what else was out there. I felt like it was time for me to...
by Pointe Magazine | Oct 1, 2016 | Company Life
Do you prefer the consistency of doing the same show eight times a week or the variety of mixed rep? I like both. I’m a creature of habit, so I completely took to the Broadway lifestyle. What’s nice about it is that you know your show: you know the little...
by Natalia Boesch | Jul 31, 2016 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2016 issue of Pointe. You took a year off to perform on Broadway as Ivy Smith in On the Town. What did you learn from that experience? If I’m not being classical I can be kind of a goofy dancer, so it was a...
by Laura Cappelle | May 31, 2016 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
You’ve been a muse to Liam Scarlett. What’s your relationship like? I owe him a rebirth. He completely gets me as a dancer. In a place where I’ve sometimes felt I was too different, he made me fit. His work took me back to all the training at The...
by Natalia Boesch | Mar 31, 2016 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2016 issue of Pointe. You’ve been at the Joffrey Ballet for your whole career. What do you love about the company? When I joined, at 16, I was drawn to their repertoire. We were doing John Cranko’s Romeo and...
by Marina Harss | Jan 27, 2016 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. Why did you return to Uruguay and join the Ballet Nacional Sodre, after being at American Ballet Theatre for nearly 14 years? I’d been a soloist for 10 years and had danced a lot...
by Candice Thompson | Nov 23, 2015 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. Before your promotion to principal this summer, you were an ABT soloist for 14 years. How did you stay patient when it seemed a promotion was unlikely? When I was cast to do my first...