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Kayla Mak, ABT Studio Company Dancer and Juilliard Student, Shares Her Daily Routine

These days, Kayla Mak jokes that she’s living like Hannah Montana. “It almost feels like I have two different lives,” she says. A fourth-year at The Juilliard School, Mak joined American Ballet Theatre’s Studio Company in September 2024. Juilliard’s professional exchange program allows Mak to work with the Studio Company while receiving academic credit towards […]

ABT’s Jake Roxander Is Unstoppable

In May of 2022, American Ballet Theatre director of repertoire Carlos Lopez was preparing Alexei Ratmansky’s Of Love and Rage. On the day Ratmansky joined rehearsal, Lopez was uneasy because he had to put in a new apprentice, Jake Roxander. “I said, ‘I’m sorry, Alexei, we have a lot of people out today,’ ” Lopez recalls. […]

Hamptons Dance Project: ABT’s Jose Sebastian Grows a Ballet Festival

In the summer of 2018, American Ballet Theatre corps member Jose Sebastian was walking in upper Manhattan with his mother, Pat, after his final performance in the company’s Metropolitan Opera House season. When he found himself reminiscing on summers he spent in the Hamptons as a child, Jose recalls, he suddenly turned to his mother […]

The Quiet Intensity of ABT’s SunMi Park

In a rehearsal studio at American Ballet Theatre not long ago, SunMi Park, a newly minted soloist, and principal dancer Calvin Royal III rehearsed a pas de deux from Christopher Wheeldon’s new ballet, Like Water for Chocolate. The passage depicted a tender moment between two people exploring their feelings for each other. As Royal lifted […]

ABT Debuts Like Water for Chocolate—And Cooks Up Some Magic

Christopher Wheeldon is no stranger to translating complex and imaginative narratives into full-length ballets, with classics like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Winter’s Tale. He returns this month to American Ballet Theatre with the U.S. premiere of Like Water for Chocolate, a ballet inspired by the acclaimed novel of the same title by Mexican […]