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Breaking Down Coupé Jeté en Tournant With ABT’s Carlos Lopez

There’s something uniquely exciting about coupé jeté en tournant. “I think it’s the combination of turning, jumping and traveling,” says Carlos Lopez, American Ballet Theatre’s director of repertoire and a former soloist with the company. “Usually you see it at the end of a ballet, in a manège in the coda. It requires a lot […]

Daniel Camargo, ABT’s New Principal, Is A Dancer With Acting In His Veins

This spring, during American Ballet Theatre’s season at the Metropolitan Opera House, it was hard not to notice a new face at the company. Daniel Camargo, a Brazilian-born dancer formerly of Stuttgart Ballet and Dutch National Ballet, came to ABT to fill in for injured dancers. In the year before the pandemic, Camargo, now 31, […]

ABT Promotes Catherine Hurlin, Roman Zhurbin and More, Daniel Camargo Joins Full-Time

American Ballet Theatre, now into the fifth and final week of its Metropolitan Opera House season, announced company promotions this afternoon. Notably, soloist Catherine Hurlin, who has been starring in ballet after ballet this summer, has been named a principal dancer, along with longtime soloist Roman Zhurbin. Daniel Camargo, who has been dancing with the […]

As ABT’s Cassandra Trenary Prepares for Her “Giselle” Debut, She Brings a Fresh Approach to the Role

“Wafting,” “demure” and “ethereal” are not the first adjectives that come to mind when attempting to describe Cassandra Trenary’s dancing. Trenary, one of six American Ballet Theatre dancers promoted to principal in the middle of the pandemic, is something of a powerhouse: sexy and grounded in Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room, earthy and explosive […]