“We’re starting from scratch,” says Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet Artistic Director Benoit-Swan Pouffer, “so we have no legacies. It’s just the future.” For New York City–based Cedar Lake, founded in 2003 with abundant funding from Wal-Mart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie, the future lies in daring, experimental works danced by rigorously trained, artistically curious performers. “It’s […]
Ashley Murphy vividly remembers the first time she saw contemporary ballet: She was sitting in the audience at a Regional Dance America festival with fellow students from Carol Anglin Dance Center in Shreveport, Louisiana, watching the young dancers twist, spin and roll over their toes in a way she’d never seen before. “At our studio, […]
After a long performance season or a grueling tour, most professional dancers look forward to slowing down and relaxing, but a few anticipate refreshing or inspiring opportunities. A Role to Grow In When 24-year-old New York City Ballet principal Ashley Bouder was offered the chance to perform the title role in Giselle under […]
A stage is seldom thought to be a lonely place, but for me, the most alone I have ever felt was standing in place in semi-darkness, my forehead resting on my partner’s shoulder, waiting for the curtain to go up at the beginning of Glen Tetley’s Voluntaries. Ahead was an impossible task: to dance this […]
Though the success of such television shows as So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing With The Stars might suggest that interest in dance is on the upsurge in America, many ballet companies across the country are floundering. So what tactics can companies use to survive—and thrive—in today’s cultural climate? In the early 1990s, […]
Virginia Johnson, Pointe’s founding editor in chief, will hold a free master class at Dance Theatre of Harlem studios on Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm! Now artistic director of Dance Theatre of Harlem, Johnson invites advanced students to get a taste of DTH and learn about their Professional Training Program, a training […]
New York City. From classical ballet to post-modern dance, the Big Apple has it all. American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet are at the pinnacle of the ballet world, the crème de la crème. Many a young ballet dancer dreams of performing in one of Lincoln Center’s famed theaters. But for most, they’re […]
Dance Theatre of Harlem Redux After an eight-year hiatus, Dance Theatre of Harlem is back. In December, the company announced that it will relaunch this August under new artistic director Virginia Johnson, a former DTH principal (and the founding editor of Pointe). DTH will once again be built around multicultural dancers and an eclectic repertoire. […]