San Francisco Ballet has announced its 2019 company promotions, and artistic director Helgi Tomasson has elevated five talented young artists who all started in the company’s corps de ballet. With several world premieres along with Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the full-scale Jewels planned for the 2020 season, there will be ample opportunities for […]
For the past 10 years, English National Ballet’s annual Emerging Dancer Awards have offered a unique opportunity for lower–ranking company members to step into the spotlight. This year’s competition, held on May 7 at London’s historic Sadler’s Wells Theatre, features six finalists selected by their peers. If a quick trip to London’s not in the […]
You might say, “You just had to be there,” about the Joffrey Ballet’s 2017 world premiere of John Neumeier’s reimagined Orphée et Eurydice with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. But on January 18, audiences from around the country will have a chance to witness this extraordinary collaboration up close, from the comfort of their living […]
Growing up, I was always the one who didn’t have the right body or the right feet or even just the right look. I never had that encouragement in the studio that things were going to work out for me, but I was always determined. I didn’t train at a big ballet academy, but I […]
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? In addition to the seven performances listed below, John Neumeier’s Anna Karenina makes its North American premiere at National Ballet of Canada November 10-18, and Hungarian National Ballet makes its U.S. debut with three performances at Lincoln Center’s Koch Theater November 7-11. James Whiteside Stars in New […]
When American Ballet Theatre announced yesterday that it would be adding Jane Eyre to its stable of narrative full-lengths, the English nerds in the DM offices (read: most of us) got pretty excited. Cathy Marston’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel was created for England’s Northern Ballet in 2016, and, based on the clips that […]
Here at Pointe, every day feels like World Ballet Day, though the official 2018 event took place on Tuesday. While WBD is a thrill for any bunhead, it can also be overwhelming. How are you supposed to sit in front of your computer all day when you have class and rehearsal and work and a […]
Stuttgart Ballet artistic director Reid Anderson will be the first to admit that his company loves a good party. “We celebrate quite a lot here,” he says. Indeed, there’s much to celebrate this week in the industrial German city famous for Porsche and Mercedes Benz: after 39 years at Stuttgart Ballet—17 as a dancer and […]