by Sponsored by Ballet West | Jan 13, 2023 | Pre-Professional Profiles
For dancers ready to level up their ballet training, Salt Lake City–based Ballet West offers a year-round Professional Training Division for dancers 14 to 20 years old. “Students at the Ballet West Academy are immersed in a professional...
by Kyra Laubacher | Oct 31, 2022 | News, Onstage
In 1942, Agnes de Mille premiered her cowboy-themed ballet, Rodeo, with Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House. Eighty years later, Ballet West celebrates the work’s anniversary this November, featuring the ballet in a triple bill...
by Jennifer Stahl For Dance Magazine | Sep 10, 2020 | Career, Company Life, Instagram, The Latest
What does it take to come back to the stage mid-pandemic? While many American dance companies have already called off all live performances through the end of the year (or longer), some, like Salt Lake City’s Ballet West, are cautiously starting to return to...
by Avichai Scher | Apr 16, 2020 | Audition Advice, Career, Dance Magazine, News
Emily and Ally Helman hoped this would be the year they’d find a company contract. The sisters, who have held various second company and apprentice positions, mapped out their audition schedules and sent out videos and resumés. By March, they had mixed...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Apr 14, 2020 | Career, News
At Ballet West, news seems to come in threes. Artistic director Adam Sklute just announced the roster for the 2020-21 season, and it includes three prominent company promotions, three retirements and three new hires. This news comes fast on the heels of Boston...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 20, 2019 | News
Ballet West opens its season October 25–November 2 with a triptych of works from George Balanchine’s early choreographic career with Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. Highlighting the program is Balanchine’s 1925 The Song of the Nightingale (Le...
by Haley Hilton | May 29, 2019 | Profiles, Trending
This is Pointe’s Summer 2019 cover story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. In Ballet West’s company class at Salt Lake City’s historic Capitol Theatre, demi-soloist Emily Neale stands poised in first...
by Joseph Carman | Feb 22, 2017 | Career, Company Life
After scouting for a ballet company to feature in the melodramatic reality show “Breaking Pointe,” the producers made a U-turn back to Adam Sklute, the CEO and artistic director of Ballet West in Salt Lake City. “They said, In our screen tests, your...