Is there any stopping Justin Peck? In less than a decade, the 29-year-old New York City Ballet soloist and resident choreographer has made over 30 ballets, quickly becoming one of the world’s most sought-after dancemakers. Now he can add another milestone to the list: Broadway. This week, The New York Times reported that Peck will […]
A debilitating illness forced Katelyn Prominski to retire early from Pennsylvania Ballet. However, once she recovered, she felt ready to tackle a new stage: Broadway. But before she began booking musicals like Flashdance and Dirty Dancing, she had to reckon with a new and humbling audition process. “When you go into a Broadway audition, you […]
The best artists never stop exploring. Lately, world-class ballet dancers have been pushing their limits with new styles and collaborators from outside the classical ballet world. There was Wendy Whelan‘s Restless Creature project. There’s Natalia Osipova and Sergei Polunin, who are performing a program of contemporary work at New York City Center this week. And […]
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2016 issue of Pointe. You took a year off to perform on Broadway as Ivy Smith in On the Town. What did you learn from that experience? If I’m not being classical I can be kind of a goofy dancer, so it was a good push for me. […]
If you haven’t seen Christopher Wheeldon’s Tony Award winning musical An American in Paris yet, you better hop to it. The hugely successful Broadway production closes on January 1, 2017 after a nearly two-year long run. Don’t panic if you can’t drop everything and buy a plane ticket to New York, though: The show will […]
Sock walk: As soon as she wakes up, Pazcoguin pulls on compression socks and takes her dog for an hour walk in Central Park. Their heavy elasticity alleviates recurring toe and joint pain in her right foot. “They help increase circulation at the start of the day,” she says. Creative cooking: Pazcoguin wouldn’t dare skip […]
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 […]
I know I need to be supporting my feet and ankles with supportive shoes, but I don’t want to wear running sneakers everywhere I go. What kinds of street shoes should dancers wear to protect their feet? —Katie I spoke with Dr. Alan Woodle, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s foot and ankle specialist, about what types of […]