San Francisco Ballet has just announced that Tamara Rojo will become its next artistic director, following the retirement of Helgi Tomasson, who steps down at the end of this season after 37 years. Rojo will move to San Francisco with her husband, Isaac Hernández, who will be joining SFB as a principal after previously dancing there; […]
Updated 01/06/2022 This month, English National Ballet artistic director and lead principal Tamara Rojo will add another title to her growing list of credentials: choreographer. For her choreographic debut, Rojo decided to revisit a classic from the ballet canon, Marius Petipa’s Raymonda, a work rarely presented in its entirety (often only the third act is […]
Carlos Acosta and Tamara Rojo both took The Royal Ballet by storm when they arrived at the company in 1998 and 2000, respectively. Virtuosic, enigmatic performers, the two forged a storied partnership over the course of their next decade together at The Royal. Now they’ve both gone on to lead the next generation of ballet […]
Tamara Rojo joined the elite, though thankfully growing, roster of female ballet company directors seven years ago when she took the helm at English National Ballet. Since then she’s managed the even more uncommon feat of continuing to perform as a leading principal dancer for ENB while directing the company. Rojo began her remarkable career […]
This week (Feb 28-Mar. 2), English National Ballet brings Akram Khan’s widely acclaimed Giselle to Chicago’s Harris Theater, the company’s first U.S. appearance in 30 years. Commissioned by ENB artistic director Tamara Rojo, Khan, whose work combines contemporary dance and Indian kathak, takes a revisionist approach to the classic story, replacing peasants and aristocrats with […]
Former Royal Ballet principals Tamara Rojo and Carlos Acosta are notably one of the best couples to perform together. In this clip of Manon, it’s clear that Rojo and Acosta have an unadulterated chemistry, even with the pas de deux’s technically exhaustive demands. Like Romeo and Juliet, Manon tells the story of star-crossed lovers. Though […]
Although it’s hard for me to imagine Tamara Rojo, the strong and savvy dancing director of the English National Ballet, as a helpless maiden (or to look away from those steely legs), she wonderfully captures Snow White’s sweet charm. This 2005 clip is from the balletic adaptation of the tale directed by Emilio Aragón and […]
This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. While the 20th century brought a number of high-profile dancing directors, from Rudolf Nureyev in Paris to Mikhail Baryshnikov at American Ballet Theatre, most today don’t juggle the highly demanding tasks of simultaneously performing and managing a company. Tamara Rojo is one prominent […]