by Rachel Hellwig | Jul 21, 2021 | Career, Company Life, Training
The life of a ballet dancer is full of sacrifices, and sacrificing time with family is no exception. When Maria Kochetkova graduated from the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, she knew she was considered too short for the company. She would soon have to leave her family and...
by Steve Sucato | Sep 21, 2017 | Profiles
Rising lazily from an armchair, shrugging her shoulders and limply snapping her arms side to side, Alana Griffith imbued the title role in Septime Webre’s ALICE (in wonderland) with the unmistakable boredom and longing of youth. Throughout the performance, her...
by Natalia Boesch | Nov 22, 2016 | Career, Company Life, Everything "Nutcracker"
Six pros reveal their most creative tricks for making it through everyone’s favorite holiday marathon. Alana Griffith: Artist, Milwaukee Ballet Griffith in rehearsal for Milwaukee Ballet’s “Waltz of the Flowers.” Timothy O’Donnell,...