by Kyra Laubacher | Aug 25, 2026 | News, Onstage, The Latest
DanceAspen is reaching a crescendo point. The scrappy, dancer-created contemporary ballet company, which launched in 2021 following the shuttering of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, has cultivated a dedicated local fanbase and grown through intentional community engagement and...
by Barry Kerollis | Sep 19, 2025 | Pointe+, Training
Growing up, I trained in ballet while dabbling in the competition circuit. This gave me a deep appreciation for stylistic diversity and led to a career with both classical and contemporary ballet troupes. After retiring, I naturally gravitated toward the intersection...
by Sponsored by Charlotte Ballet | Jan 12, 2024 | Training
Charlotte Ballet trainee Caleb Olenick grew up in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, where his training options were limited. In comparison, Charlotte, North Carolina, where he currently lives and dances, is a big city—in fact, it’s one of the fastest growing cities in...
by Steve Sucato | May 10, 2022 | Company Life, News, The Latest
Each step along Alejandro Cerrudo’s 24-year career, he’s planted the seeds for his next area of growth in the dance field. Born in Madrid, he first became a dancer, then a choreographer and, most recently, the producer of his own dance projects. Now, the 41-year-old...
by Gavin Larsen | Mar 14, 2019 | Career, Company Life, Director's Notes
In 1996, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet artistic director Tom Mossbrucker was a veteran Joffrey Ballet dancer with no aspirations to direct a company. But while visiting a Colorado music festival with his partner, Jean-Philippe Malaty, also a dancer, a chance encounter changed...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Sep 30, 2018 | News
Fall for Dance Festival Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. Fall for Dance Festival Includes Three Ballet World Premieres 2018 marks the 15th anniversary of New York City Center’s Fall for Dance...
by Emma Love Suddarth | Apr 9, 2018 | Career
Romantic couples within the dance world are fairly common; it’s not surprising that a dancer might find a deeper connection with another who appreciates ballet’s unique triumphs and trials (not to mention someone else who doesn’t mind eating dinner...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Aug 28, 2017 | News, Profiles, Viral Videos
On the heels of his successful 2015 project INTENSIO, American Ballet Theatre principal Daniil Simkin is presenting a new multi-media work at the Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process series set in the museum’s multistoried rotunda. “The rotunda is...