This is Pointe’s June/July 2015 Cover Story. Ascending the ranks to “ballerina” status at American Ballet Theatre comprises the stuff of dreams for many dancers. Since its inception in 2003, ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School has been steadily molding students who graduate into the company. But within the last two decades, only several women have […]
National Ballet of Canada corps member Hannah Fischer, 20, and San Francisco Ballet soloist Carlo Di Lanno, 22, were announced the winners of the prestigious Erik Bruhn Prize on Tuesday night. Recently retired Boston Ballet principal Yuri Yanowsky won the choreographic prize for his work District. Five couples and choreographers representing five companies (Boston Ballet, […]
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. Ever dreamed of dancing your way through Europe? Of discovering new companies and wandering the streets of historic cities? For Kelsey Coventry, an American dancer with Leipziger Ballett in Leipzig, Germany, moving abroad was the perfect next step. “I thought that I would […]
New York City Ballet will add Peter Martins’ production of La Sylphide, the quintessential Bournonville ballet, to its repertoire next year. Martins debuted his version in 1985 at Pennsylvania Ballet. Now, 30 years later, it comes to Martins’ own company. La Sylphide has long been a staple of the Royal Danish Ballet, where Martins started […]
Audiences’ fascination with ballets based on Shakespeare’s plays shows no sign of diminishing. The beauty of his language and the complexity of his characters, whether comic or tragic, historic or fantastic, continue to challenge choreographers to match their artistry with his. Last October, American Ballet Theatre added another play to its growing list of Shakespeare […]
Agon. The Goldberg Variations. In the Upper Room . We hear these titles today and think, “Classics.” But at what point does a ballet achieve that status? For Peter Boal, when the ballet was Alexei Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH, almost instantly. “I had a really strong reaction to that work,” says Boal of first seeing DSCH […]
Royal Danish corps member Carling Talcott’s long struggle with her weight nearly cost her a ballet career. As told to Laura Cappelle Growing up, food was a non-issue. I had long legs and a short torso; I could eat whatever I wanted without losing my figure, and I loved milk shakes and chocolate. There was […]
Pacific Northwest Ballet corps member Emma Love never expected to perform as one of the flirtatious women in Jirí Kylián’s Sechs Tänze. Then barely a year in the corps, Love was fourth in line for the part. But when other dancers got injured, she went on, handling Kylián’s idiosyncrasies with aplomb. It was tangible proof […]