by Kyra Laubacher for Dance Magazine | Apr 7, 2023 | News, The Latest
You may recognize freelance ballerina Madison Keesler from her former positions with San Francisco Ballet, English National Ballet, and Hamburg Ballet. But this Tuesday, April 11, at 9 pm EST, you may be surprised to see her on television as a guest star in...
by Maggie Small | Mar 31, 2023 | Career, Pointe+
Think you have to give up on your ballet dreams to pursue a career on the Great White Way or the silver screen? Think again. These three dancers took the risk to expand their reach artistically and professionally and found that they can have both ballet and acting on...
by Hugo Marchand As Told To Laura Cappelle | Jan 20, 2019 | Profiles, Technique
Onegin isn’t a regular ballet character: He’s neither good nor bad, but gray, in between. I started by reading Alexander Pushkin’s verse poem, and I found it difficult. It portrays an emotional state that is very Russian: This existential melancholy...
by Ellie Kusner | Jul 31, 2016 | Career, Company Life
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2016 issue of Pointe. Five years after joining American Ballet Theatre, corps member Zhong-Jing Fang sustained a serious ankle injury. Not one to let a setback take her off course, Fang wondered: What other things...