It’s that time of year again—recital season! And not so long ago, some of your favorite ballet dancers were having their own recital experiences: dancing, discovering, bowing, laughing, receiving after-show flowers, making memories, and, of course, having their pictures taken! For this week’s #TBT, we gathered recital photos—and the stories behind them—from five of our […]
Olga Smirnova Expectations can be a heavy burden to bear for a young dancer on the fast track to stardom. Few have justified the hype like the Bolshoi Ballet’s 21-year-old Olga Smirnova. The Vaganova-trained first soloist had an international coming out party to remember in London this summer. Her performances in La Bayadère and Swan […]
My dance training has had many phases. My mother danced into her 20s and knew how difficult a professional career could be. So to save me from heartbreak, she steered me towards gymnastics when I was 6. But that summer I attended a camp that included ballet—and loved it. My mother relented and enrolled me […]
Here at Pointe, we’re lucky to work with several of the ballet world’s best photographers. While some of them came to dance photography through roundabout routes, others were dancers first. And former dancers have an insider’s understanding of how to capture that perfect ballet moment in a photograph. One of the dancers-turned-photographers on our roster […]