Ricardo Rhodes would become a professional dancer might once have been considered improbable. Introduced to the art at age 7 through Boston Ballet’s inner-city outreach program, Citydance, he admits his original attraction was getting out of school one day a week. But he quickly fell in love. After graduating from Boston Academy of the Arts […]
Back in December, we jumped for joy when we learned that David Hallberg would be making a triumphant return to the stage. It’s been a little over a year since the American Ballet Theatre and Bolshoi Ballet star moved to Australia to take care of an ankle injury, working closely with the Australian Ballet’s physiotherapy […]
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2016 issue of Pointe. What does it take to bring a major production on tour? In July, Houston Ballet mounted a 12-show run of artistic director Stanton Welch’s Romeo and Juliet in Melbourne, Australia. The tour was the company’s Australian debut, and a homecoming for Welch, who is […]
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of anticipation in a theater before a curtain rises. Toronto’s cultural elite had gathered one summer night in 2006 to celebrate the National Ballet of Canada’s move into the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, a sleek new contemporary home for the country’s national opera and ballet companies. […]
There’s nothing quite like the feeling of anticipation in a theater before a curtain rises. Toronto’s cultural elite had gathered one summer night in 2006 to celebrate the National Ballet of Canada’s move into the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, a sleek new contemporary home for the country’s national opera and ballet companies. […]