Enter now to win a pair of tickets to see The Washington Ballet’s TWB Welcomes mixed bill program at Washington, D.C.’s the Kennedy Center on September 28 at 8 pm. The program includes classics by George Balanchine and Michel Fokine, as well as modern works by Alexei Ratmansky and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. Loading…
This is Pointe’s April/May 2018 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. If you are a dance lover in South Korea, EunWon Lee is a household name. The delicate ballerina and former principal at the Korean National Ballet danced every major classical role to critical acclaim, […]
On March 14, The Washington Ballet will present a triptych of new works by Marcelo Gomes, Gemma Bond and Clifton Brown. “What I found really interesting with these three is that they’re all still performers,” says TWB artistic director Julie Kent. “They serve both as muse and as creator.” Though Gomes and Bond share the […]
You made a deal with your mom to take ballet classes in exchange for a ride to tryouts for the football team. How did that work? I thought that I would take ballet for a couple months, become a master and then leave that alone and concentrate on football. Ballet had other ideas, which perplexed […]
Rounding out her first season as artistic director of The Washington Ballet, Julie Kent called on her longtime dancing partner and friend, Ethan Stiefel, to create an entirely new work for the company. To honor the John F. Kennedy centennial celebrations at the Kennedy Center this spring, Stiefel chose to tap into the 35th president’s […]
Julie Kent makes her mark on The Washington Ballet’s Giselle, and more. The Washington Ballet performs Giselle, March 1–5. Though it’s not a premiere, former American Ballet Theatre star Julie Kent now helms the company, and Giselle was one of her signature roles with ABT. It’s her first season as artistic director, and she’ll be staging […]
There’s one accessory Brittany Stone doesn’t leave home without: her headphones. “I’m always listening to music, usually something from the ’90s,” she says. “It just makes your day better, especially in the morning when you don’t really want to get up and take class.” Her playlist is full of “good walking music”—upbeat songs that get […]
Former American Ballet Theatre star Ethan Stiefel will choreograph a new work to complete The Washington Ballet’s triple bill in late May. When we first heard about artistic director Julie Kent’s 2017 programming, we wondered which choreographer would join the bill alongside Frederick Ashton’s The Dream and Antony Tudor’s Jardin aux Lilas. The Washington Post […]