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Benois de la Danse Nominees

The nominees for the 2013 Benois de la Danse Awards were announced today at a press conference in Moscow—and they include a former Pointe cover star, several exciting up-and-comers and many other big names. Here’s the complete list: CHOREOGRAPHERS Hans Van Manen – Variations for Two Couples, Benjamin Britten, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Stevan Kovács Tickmayer, Astor […]

Call Board

Royal Danish Ballet Tackles Twelfth Night Nikolaj Hübbe is setting the Shakespearean classic on some of the company’s youngest dancers. Shakespeare seems to be on choreographers’ minds these days. In addition to Christopher Wheeldon’s new Winter’s Tale for The Royal Ballet (p. 39) and American Ballet Theatre’s reprise of Alexei Ratmansky’s recent Tempest (p. 42), […]

Capturing Movement In a Photo

Bugge’s take on the Royal Danish Ballet in La Bayadére The best ballet photographers have the intuition of a dancer. They know exactly how to catch the greatest height of a jump or the top of an arabesque. But form aside, very few can translate the thrill and emotion of live performance. Photographer Ingrid Bugge […]

A Canadian Ballerina Goes Abroad

Photo by Daniel Neuhaus, Courtesy NBoC. Many dancers aspire to perform abroad, and for National Ballet of Canada corps member Emma Hawes, that dream is about to come true.  Next Monday  she begins an exchange program with the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, where she’ll take class, rehearse and perform with the company through mid-April. […]

Mackenzie Brown and Daichi Ikarashi Win the 2023 Erik Bruhn Prize

The esteemed Erik Bruhn Prize competition took place this past Saturday, March 25, and this year’s winners are Stuttgart Ballet soloist Mackenzie Brown and Royal Ballet artist Daichi Ikarashi; Stuttgart Ballet artist in residence Roman Novitzky won the Choreographic Prize for his contemporary duet, A Dialog. The annual competition, created in 1988 in honor of […]

#TBT: Antoinette Sibley and Peter Schaufuss in Sleeping Beauty

In Sleeping Beauty‘s Act III wedding pas de deux, the spotlight beams unwaveringly on dancers’ technique; Petipa’s choreography offers little to no reprieve in softening embraces, no rest in loving caresses. In this clip, Dame Antoinette Sibley—a principal at The Royal Ballet from 1956-1989—and Danish-born international star Peter Schaufuss rise to the occasion. Regal and […]

Homefield Advantage

Bootleg videos of Atlanta Ballet’s new hit big are circulating on YouTube as if the work was a sold-out rock concert. Actually, it kind of was. Lauri Stallings choreographed the hip-hop ballet, set to live music by Antwan “Big Boi” Patton of OutKast, for its première in April. She saw the project, which brought together […]

The Power of Youth

“Never underestimate youth,” says Peter Martins, who in his 37 years with New York City Ballet has seen more than a few young dancers achieve early stardom. Martins’s innovative new production of Romeo and Juliet, which premieres on May 1 at the New York State Theater, is a departure both for him as a creative […]