I had grown up watching Kyra Nichols and Wendy Whelan dancing “Diamonds,” and it was my absolute dream to dance it, too. I immediately connected to “Diamonds.” It’s big, dramatic movement, nothing small, and I don’t think there’s anything small about my dancing. I have to reach deep down in my soul to do this […]
When New York City Ballet principal Daniel Ulbricht and Manhattan Youth Ballet programming director Erin Fogarty first produced Dance Against Cancer: An Evening to Benefit the American Cancer Society back in 2010, they likely had no idea how big it would become. Now a highly anticipated annual event, Dance Against Cancer has raised almost $1 […]
When New York City Ballet went on a three-week tour to Paris last summer, we wished we could tag along. The company presented 20 ballets at the historic Théâtre du Châtelet, including 14 by Balanchine. Thanks to PBS and their Great Performances series, you can now get a taste of what it was like to […]
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 […]
For this #MotivationMonday, we mined the “Reverence” section of Pointe‘s back issues. Read on for inspiration from some of your favorite dancers. This years-old advice is timeless! Photo by Jack Devant via JackDevant.com. “Being a professional is not an easy life. Students need to ask themselves if they really want to do that, because it […]
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 […]
Since being named chief dance critic of The New York Times more than four years ago, Alastair Macaulay has become one of the most talked-about people in dance. His reviews, whether passionate or critical, generate instant buzz. Before his move to New York, Macaulay was chief theater critic for London’s Financial Times, and covered dance […]
Daylight saving time had been in effect only a few hours last November when New York City Ballet principal Sterling Hyltin entered an NYCB rehearsal studio to recapture history. In Classroom 2 on the seventh floor, the clock had been turned back to 1968, when NYCB premiered Balanchine’s La Source, a demanding pas de deux […]