We have to hand it to the Russians. Olympic opening ceremonies are always brilliant spectacles, but rarely do they involve appearances by world-class ballet dancers. Last Friday night, the Sochi opening ceremony offered a smorgasbord of rich, theatrical images, many of them created by Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark choreographer Daniel Ezralow. But the highlights […]
This interview originally appeared in the October 16 Pointe e-newsletter. To sign up for the newsletter, click here. This month, the Joffrey Ballet presents Stanton Welch’s production of La Bayadère for the first time. Pointe‘s e-news spoke with 22-year-old Jeraldine Mendoza, who will make her debut as Nikiya this Saturday, about learning the ballet. When […]
Wendy Perron, editor in chief of Pointe‘s sister publication, Dance Magazine, is currently in Moscow at the Benois de la Danse. Here, she shares her impressions of the 2012 event. For the first time in its whole 20 years, the Benois de la Danse award in choreography went to an American: Lar Lubovitch. For […]
The title of this blog may be a tad misleading, but I do have an important question to ask. After watching a video of the (divinely talented and gift to the ballet world from heaven) Svetlana Zakharova on YouTube, I wonder: What is the best and most correct way to do fouettes? Is it by […]