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The Bewitching Ekaterina Kondaurova

One of the best moments of last April’s Youth America Grand Prix gala at New York’s City Center came in the evening’s second act. Kirov artists Ekaterina Kondaurova and Islom Baimuradov were dancing Alexei Ratmansky’s hypnotic Middle Duet. They’d reached the point where the man and the woman separate and each dance alone in a […]

Show and Tell: Inside Ekaterina Kondaurova’s Dance Bag

Kirov Ballet second soloist Ekaterina Kondaurova’s dance bag reflects the many places she has traveled to perform. She bought the gum in Germany and the magnets and warming pads in Japan. The magnets are great, she says, “If you believe.” Just attach them to muscles that hurt and wear them until they fall off. And […]

The Mariinsky's Next Generation: Meet 4 of The Company's Rising Young Stars

On the Mariinsky Ballet’s tour to the U.S. last fall, audiences clamored to see long established stars like Ekaterina Kondaurova, Kimin Kim, Viktoria Tereshkina and Vladimir Shklyarov. But it was also an opportunity to catch an exciting group of young protégés being nurtured by acting director Yuri Fateev. Just a few years out of school, […]

Grace Under Pressure: The Bolshoi Ballet's Alena Kovaleva

This is Pointe’s December 2017/January 2018 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. Few ballets are as unforgiving for a young dancer as Swan Lake. Both Odette’s heartbreak and Odile’s deceit of Siegfried demand the kind of dramatic commitment and maturity that often come with experience. […]

#MotivationMonday: 9 Years Ago, Polina Semionova Gave Us This Advice

For this #MotivationMonday, we mined the “Reverence” section of Pointe‘s back issues. Read on for inspiration from some of your favorite dancers. This years-old advice is timeless! Photo by Jack Devant via JackDevant.com. “Being a professional is not an easy life. Students need to ask themselves if they really want to do that, because it […]

Call Board: Hübbe Comes Home

The last time the Royal Danish Ballet performed in New York City, some 23 years ago, Nikolaj Hübbe was dancing with the company. Soon after that, he joined New York City Ballet, and his purity of line and expression made him a favorite in New York until his retirement in 2008. In June, Hübbe comes […]

A Summer to Remember

It was a hot, muggy afternoon in a high school auditorium near New York’s Lincoln Center. But to the American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive students under the spotlights, the outside world had vanished. Performing the Wilis scene from Giselle, they danced as though they were spirits in a moonlit glade, not teenagers on a bare-bones […]