by Kyra Laubacher | Apr 8, 2024 | News, Onstage, The Latest
This month, American Ballet Theatre will make the North American premiere of Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works. The critically acclaimed ballet, created for The Royal Ballet in 2015, is based on three works by 20th-century modernist author Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway,...
by Kirsten Evans | Apr 2, 2024 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
Former American Ballet Theatre corps de ballet dancers and married couple Emily Hayes and Jonathan Klein are making a big leap into business. After launching their French-made botanical skin-care company, Murmure, last October, the pair officially resigned from ABT in...
by Pointe Magazine | Dec 20, 2023 | News, The Latest
It’s official: our friends at Dance Magazine have announced their 2024 “25 to Watch” list. The annual round-up features rising talent throughout the dance industry and spanning multiple dance genres. Of course, we can’t help but feel excited about...
by Alex Marshall Hatch | Nov 9, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
Ballet is in the very DNA of the Roxander brothers and so, it appears, is the role of Puck. Ashton, 25, and Jake, 21, are sons of ballet dancers David and Elyse Roxander. Trained by their parents at their ballet school, Studio Roxander, in Medford, Oregon, both are...
by April Deocariza | Oct 23, 2023 | Cross-Training, Health & Body, Pointe+
If you follow American Ballet Theatre’s Cameron McCune on social media, you’ve probably noticed that his workout videos are somewhat of a phenomenon. The corps member’s weight-training routine is not only impressive, it’s translated to better physical and mental...
by Lydia Murray | Aug 1, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
American Ballet Theatre principal Christine Shevchenko’s dance bag keeps her prepared on the go. “I’m obsessed with Tumi foldout bags,” she says. They’ve been a favorite of hers for years. “They zip up into a little pocket. We travel so much, so I use one of...
by Marina Harss | May 1, 2023 | Digital Cover Star, Pointe+
In a rehearsal studio at American Ballet Theatre not long ago, SunMi Park, a newly minted soloist, and principal dancer Calvin Royal III rehearsed a pas de deux from Christopher Wheeldon’s new ballet, Like Water for Chocolate. The passage depicted a tender moment...
by April Deocariza | Mar 24, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Christopher Wheeldon is no stranger to translating complex and imaginative narratives into full-length ballets, with classics like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and The Winter’s Tale. He returns this month to American Ballet Theatre with the U.S. premiere of Like...