“Get ready, because my days are really packed!” says Ella Titus, a corps de ballet dancer at Miami City Ballet. Titus has been dancing with MCB for over 10 years and works for its marketing department as a social media content creator. In addition, she maintains her own social media channels (with over 100K followers […]
Miami City Ballet’s Samantha Hope Galler was promoted to principal in October 2023 and has treasured every stepping stone on her path to get there. She shares her journey moving from a small company to a larger one, how she’s learned to process rejection, and the roles that have taught her the most about herself. […]
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 […]