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 […]
Congratulations are in order for Kathryn Morgan! After a long struggle with hypothyroidism, which led to the ballerina’s resignation from New York City Ballet in 2012, Morgan is now set to dive back into full-time professional dance as a soloist at Miami City Ballet. The news broke yesterday, delighting everyone who’s missed Morgan’s singular presence […]
New York City Ballet announced on Facebook earlier this week that current Miami City Ballet principal Jovani Furlan will be joining the company as a soloist this fall. Furlan, a native of Joinville, Brazil, left Brazil’s Bolshoi Theater School in 2011 to train at the MCB School; he joined the company as an apprentice in […]
Tricia Albertson, as told to Gavin Larsen. I like to make people laugh, so I was excited to be cast as the Mad Ballerina in Jerome Robbins’ The Concert. But the character herself didn’t feel like me. She’s so bubbly and excited, and I’m a bit more pensive (when it comes to ballet, at least). […]
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. Wayne McGregor Makes His ABT Choreographic Debut Ever since Vaslav Nijinsky shocked Paris audiences in 1913 with his Rite of Spring for the Ballets Russes, dancemakers from Sir Kenneth MacMillan to Pina Bausch have tried their hands at choreographing to Igor Stravinsky’s […]
Photographed by Lilly Echeverria. Ask Miami City Ballet’s Jennifer Lauren if she feels any different now that she’s a principal, and she’ll quickly say no. “I’m still the same dancer I was 10 years ago when I joined the company,” says Lauren, who was promoted at the end of last season. “I’m still working harder […]
Enter now to win a pair of tickets to see Miami City Ballet’s Program 4 featuring George Balanchine’s Apollo and La Valse and the company premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH on April 28, 2018 at 8 pm in Fort Lauderdale, FL. <span class=”redactor-invisible-space”></span>Loading…
Patricia Delgado surprised her many fans last March when she announced that she’d be leaving Miami City Ballet after nearly 20 years to move to New York to be closer to her boyfriend, New York City Ballet soloist and resident choreographer Justin Peck. Though she took a risk stepping into the unknown without a sense […]