When it comes to studio essentials, Miami City Ballet principal Katia Carranza has a classic sense of style. Her Lululemon dance bag is filled with warm-ups in pink, black, gray and navy. “I like legwarmers from the knee down,” she says. “Keeping my calves and ankles warm is so important, but if my thighs are […]
Go shopping on Miami Beach’s popular Lincoln Road on a given weekday afternoon and you’ll be in for a special surprise: a handful of Miami City Ballet dancers spinning and leaping in the windows of what was once a retail store. The company’s new pop-up studio, which started mid-July, offers an exciting way for both […]
“I don’t do well with free time,” admits Eric Trope. So when Miami City Ballet pulled the plug on its season this spring, the corps member immediately started looking for something else to get involved in. Two friends, Kristin Guerin and Jessica Gutierrez, had just started a program they’d seen in other cities where those […]
Since making her triumphant return to the stage this season, Kathryn Morgan has been on a mission to share her story and inspire others. The Miami City Ballet soloist—and current cover star of Dance Magazine’s March issue—was profiled on NBC’s “TODAY” show this morning, reaching her largest audience yet. Morgan sat down with “TODAY” show […]
In 1983, at New York City Ballet, Jerome Robbins decided to create a tribute to the great Fred Astaire, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Astaire dazzled audiences on the silver screen, making an unmistakable impact on dance in film. Robbins decided to set his ballet against the backdrop of film […]
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights! Miami City Ballet Becomes the First Company Outside of NYCB to Present Jerome Robbins’ “I’m Old Fashioned” The new year is here, and non-Nutcracker ballet is back. January 10-26, Miami City Ballet opens I’m Old Fashioned, a mixed-bill program featuring four diverse […]
Let a seasoned ballerina take on a repertory gem for the first time and watch both the dance and the dancer sparkle in a new light. Just so, at Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center last February, Katia Carranza—a long-established talent at Miami City Ballet—enlivened George Balanchine’s Duo Concertant, looking refreshed as she turned every choreographic facet […]
As a first-timer in the corps of Concerto Barocco, Mayumi Enokibara exercised a basic tenet: to find joy in a challenge. Though in the end she felt exhausted by the nonstop, intricately entwined Balanchine steps, the Brazilian-born ballerina—in her fourth year, following an apprenticeship, at Miami City Ballet—calls that performance last season’s high point. “I […]