I was filming a photo shoot for Pointe the other day, featuring ABT dancers Blaine Hoven, Eric Tamm, Alexandre Hammoudi and Daniil Simkin. Lucky me! They’re all so cute. But that’s not all I took away from that day. While I watched the guys figure out their poses and do them, I was struck by […]
After retiring from her illustrious career dancing for then directing the Finnish National Ballet, Doris Laine wasn’t about to take up knitting. Instead, she created the Helsinki International Ballet Competition. Now in its seventh iteration, HIBC will accept 100 promising young dancers to fly to Finland to compete this summer. Applications are open until January […]
Happy August! Our new issue is out, and it’s chock full of great stories. My personal favorite to work on was The Dance Bag Diet in which top stars gave us a peek inside their daily snacking habits. Daniil Simkin turns out to be a bit of a cookie monster, Heather Ogden totes a grapefruit […]
Roberto Bolle’s gala “Roberto Bolle and Friends” had its annual performance today, in Verona, Italy. The performance featured an outstanding cast of dancers, including American Ballet Theatre’s Hee Seo, Cory Stearns, Daniil Simkin and Julie Kent, Boston Ballet principal Eris Nezha, Stuttgart Ballet principals Alicia Amatriain and Jason Reilly, and ABT corps member, Skylar Brandt. […]
We tend to think of professional dancers as tuning into an all-ballet channel. Not so, according to these five, who read, movie-binge, ace Final Fantasy, design headbands, tweet, go to college, raise cats and more. Their offstage adventures are as varied as the talents that make them so compelling onstage. Connor Walsh Company: Houston […]
The venerable Jacob’s Pillow dance festival will celebrate its 85th birthday in 2017, making it the country’s longest-running international dance festival. As usual, Jacob’s Pillow gives equal weight to different dance styles (presenting everything from hip hop to Bharatnatyam over the course of the summer), and that ethos extends to its ballet programming. Classical and contemporary […]