by Claudia Bauer | Oct 7, 2019 | Instagram, Profiles
Jasmine Jimison is just 17, but she’s already experiencing a fairy-tale ballet career: In her first year as a San Francisco Ballet apprentice, Jimison made sparkling main- stage debuts as Cupid in Don Quixote, the Ballerina Doll in The Nutcracker and, in The...
by Pointe Magazine | Oct 7, 2019 | Profiles, Trending
Here are 10 corps de ballet dancers we’re swooning over. Click their names and photos to learn more! Courtney Lavine, American Ballet Theatre Courtney Lavine in Marcelo Gomes’ AfterEffect. Rosalie O’Connor, Courtesy ABT. Sage Humphries, Boston Ballet...
by Steve Sucato | Oct 6, 2019 | Instagram
Watching Adelaide Clauss dance intoxicates the senses, a visual equivalent of a flower’s perfume. This past spring, while performing Swan Lake’s Act II pas de deux at a benefit in her hometown of Buffalo, New York, her melding of grace and technique...
by Lauren Warnecke | Oct 4, 2019 | Instagram, Profiles
In Yuri Possokhov’s premiere of Anna Karenina at The Joffrey Ballet last February, Edson Barbosa opened the full-length with a thrilling solo. It’s a sweeping, grandiose passage for the ill-fated station guard, who foreshadows Anna’s tragic end. The...
by Guillermo Perez | Oct 4, 2019 | Instagram, Profiles
As a first-timer in the corps of Concerto Barocco, Mayumi Enokibara exercised a basic tenet: to find joy in a challenge. Though in the end she felt exhausted by the nonstop, intricately entwined Balanchine steps, the Brazilian-born ballerina—in her fourth year,...
by Kathleen McGuire | Oct 3, 2019 | Instagram, Profiles
With her shining stage presence and high-kicking moxie, first-year Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre corps member Tommie Kesten is hard to miss. In the company’s recent premiere of Jordan Morris’ The Great Gatsby, Kesten didn’t need her bright green flapper...
by Marcie Sillman | Oct 2, 2019 | Instagram, Profiles
During a recent performance of Matthew Neenan’s Bacchus at Pacific Northwest Ballet, corps de ballet dancer Christopher D’Ariano stood out not only for his elegant lines and crisp jumps; audiences couldn’t help but notice his unruly dark hair that...
by Marina Harss | Oct 1, 2019 | Instagram, Profiles
You can’t miss Mira Nadon when she’s onstage: The 18-year-old, who joined New York City Ballet as an apprentice in fall 2017 and became a corps member in 2018, is tall and raven-haired, and dances with fullness and lyricism, carried along by the music. At...