At age 25, New York City Ballet corps member Peter Walker is attracting admirers by simultaneously succeeding at two demanding careers: dancer and choreographer. Last winter, he made his debut alongside soloist Erica Pereira in the title role of Peter Martins’ Romeo + Juliet. Just a few weeks earlier, he had presented his second world […]
What do you do when you finally have some time off after a busy season? Well, if you’re the dancers of New York City Ballet, you find new ways to dance, obviously. Ahead of the company’s 52nd annual residency at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, corps members (and super creatives) Peter Walker and Emily Kikta teamed […]
This is Pointe’s June/July 2018 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. “I’m very cautious by nature,” Rachel Hutsell says over herbal tea at Lincoln Center between rehearsals. You wouldn’t think so from the way she moves onstage or in the studio. In fact, one of […]
Deep in the basement of Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater is a small, windowless space that’s home to nearly 6,000 pairs of pointe shoes, neatly stacked on shelves that reach to the ceiling. It’s New York City Ballet’s shoe room, and for company members, it’s one of the most important places in the world. […]
Having danced with New York City Ballet, Béjart Ballet and the Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Aesha Ash undoubtedly inspired more than a few future ballerinas during her 13-year professional career. But now that she’s retired, she’s found a way to reach even more young girls, particularly those who live in inner-city neighborhoods, after founding The […]
Ask the Paris Opéra Ballet, the New York City Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet to share a stage, with each performing one act of Balanchine’s Jewels, and you might expect a degree of friendly (or less-than-friendly) competition. But as POB gave its exquisitely polite rendition of “Emeralds” during the Lincoln Center Festival’s three-company production this […]
New York City Ballet is no stranger to big-name collaborations in their wardrobe department. Costumes designed by high-fashion’s most celebrated like Valentino, Carolina Herrera and Stella McCartney have all made their way to the stage. But we’ve just learned that in 2016, it was actor Daniel Day-Lewis who set up shop in the NYCB sewing […]
The New York City Ballet Board of Directors announced on Saturday the interim team that has been appointed to run the artistic side of the company during ballet master in chief Peter Martins’ leave of absence. Martins requested a temporary leave from both NYCB and the School of American Ballet last Thursday while the company […]