Miami City Ballet’s National Tour Artists of Miami City Ballet in Justin Peck’s Heatscape. Photo by Gene Schiavone, Courtesy Miami City Ballet. In late April at the Harris Theater, Chicagoans found Miami City Ballet firing on all cylinders, following the company’s Lincoln Center debut and an engagement at Northrop in Minneapolis. Stage-filling Balanchine classics like […]
Every year, the Princess Grace Foundation-USA recognizes a group of exceptional dancers and choreographers with scholarships, apprenticeships and fellowships—and gets us excited about emerging talent to watch. The 2016 Princess Grace Award winners, announced this week, are no exception. Fifteen-year-old Tyson Ali Clark, a trainee at Boston Ballet School, is one of the dance recipients […]
Six years ago, New York City Ballet principal Daniel Ulbricht and Erin Fogarty, director of programming at Manhattan Youth Ballet, teamed up to create Dance Against Cancer. The annual benefit for the American Cancer Society brings together ballet, modern and Broadway dancers, with every performer donating their own time. Pointe spoke with Ulbricht before this […]
New York City Ballet resident choreographer Justin Peck has balletomanes everywhere on the edge of their seat, impatiently awaiting the premiere of his first narrative work, The Most Incredible Thing. Based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, the ballet will feature dozens of NYCB dancers and students from SAB (the cast numbers more than 50!). […]
The number of ballerinas dipping their pointe shoes in the musical theater pool has been noteworthy this season—and between Misty Copeland joining the cast of Broadway’s On the Town (in the role played by New York City Ballet’s Megan Fairchild), Leanne Cope’s Tony-nominated performance in An American in Paris and Tiler Peck’s recent turn in […]
Whoever thinks dancing is a selfish profession hasn’t met New York City Ballet principal Daniel Ulbricht. Once again, he’s joining forces with the American Cancer Society for his annual Dance Against Cancer benefit on April 27 in New York City. Ulbricht, whose mother is currently battling uterine cancer, and his co-producer Erin Fogarty, who lost […]
Patricia McBride in George Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux Last Sunday night in the nation’s capital, the who’s who of Hollywood and politics came together for the 37th annual Kennedy Center Honors to celebrate the career of former New York City Ballet star Patricia McBride. Each year, the Honors tribute the lives and contributions of […]
Hee Seo rehearses “Cinderella.” Photo by Gene Schiavone If the Slipper Fits… ABT takes on Ashton’s Cinderella Given the number of Frederick Ashton works American Ballet Theatre has been dancing, and dancing beautifully, as of late—The Dream, A Month in the Country, Sylvia—it’s surprising that this spring marks the company’s first time tackling Ashton’s iconic […]