The life of an emerging choreographer can be stressful. You’re trying to make a name for yourself, to establish your own distinct voice, to earn and then juggle multiple commissions. But some dancemakers struggle with more than choreographer’s block: They also dance with major companies. And many are corps de ballet dancers, workhorses who perform […]
Balanchine once said, “I don’t have to explain why I change things. I can do with my ballets whatever I like….I made them and I can change them if I want to.” In preview of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s upcoming performance at the Fall for Dance festival, the company’s dancers and artistic director Peter Boal presented […]
What happens when you cross ballet with electronic music? Ballet fans found out last night, watching the innovative choreography by New York City Ballet’s Justin Peck to songs by Sufjan Stevens. At the Guggenheim’s Works & Process, the choreographer and composer, along with conductor Michael Atkinson, discussed their collaboration while NYCB dancers offered a preview […]
The nominees for the 2013 Benois de la Danse Awards were announced today at a press conference in Moscow—and they include a former Pointe cover star, several exciting up-and-comers and many other big names. Here’s the complete list: CHOREOGRAPHERS Hans Van Manen – Variations for Two Couples, Benjamin Britten, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Stevan Kovács Tickmayer, Astor […]
BRITTANY STONE Boston Ballet Everything about Brittany Stone says “ballerina”: Her fluid port de bras, her lithe frame, her long legs. But until seven years ago she was a bona fide comp kid, performing jazz and tap and having, she insists, “no real ballet technique at all.” When Stone was 13, ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis […]
Is ballet’s post-Balanchine choreography rut finally over? Roslyn Sulcas, a contributor to Pointe, argues today in The New York Times that it is. She points out that works by Christopher Wheeldon, Alexei Ratmansky and Wayne McGregor offer a completely new way of using the classical vocabulary. There’s also a whole generation of imaginative choreographers who […]
Here at Pointe, we’re lucky to work with several of the ballet world’s best photographers. While some of them came to dance photography through roundabout routes, others were dancers first. And former dancers have an insider’s understanding of how to capture that perfect ballet moment in a photograph. One of the dancers-turned-photographers on our roster […]
New York City Ballet’s fall season launches next Tuesday, September 23, with not one but three world premieres by Liam Scarlett, NYCB resident choreographer and soloist Justin Peck and NYCB corps member Troy Schumacher. For Pointe’s bi-weekly newsletter, we spoke with soloist Georgina Pazcoguin about dancing in Schumacher’s first work for the company’s main stage, […]