by Kyra Laubacher | Dec 5, 2024 | News, The Latest
The past few weeks have brought another exciting round of dancer career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in this month’s ballet roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments Former American Ballet Theatre principal Julio Bocca has...
by Martha Anne Toll | Oct 4, 2023 | News, The Latest
Globetrotting choreographer Alexei Ratmansky is a peculiarly 21st-century figure. Having served as artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, and then artist in residence first at American Ballet Theatre and now New York City Ballet, he embodies geopolitics in a...
by Guillaume Côté As Told To Gavin Larsen | Aug 3, 2023 | Career, Company Life, Dream Role, Pointe+
Over the course of a dancer’s career, ballets come and go as fleetingly as the effervescent nature of dance itself. So it’s a precious thing when an artist gets to perform a particular role time and again, season after season, developing a relationship with it and...
by Avichai Scher | Jan 25, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
The classic story of Giselle, with its haunting tale of love’s merciful power, has graced the stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, countless times over the years. On February 1, the theater’s curtain will rise on a historic moment: a new production of...
by Kyra Laubacher | Jan 10, 2023 | News, The Latest
This month has brought another exciting round of career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions and more in this month’s roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments On December 12, the National Ukrainian Ballet (Kyiv Ballet) appointed Nobuhiro...
by Amy Brandt | Mar 4, 2022 | The Latest
Updated on 3/9/2022 At Miami City Ballet’s February 26 performance of Alexei Ratmansky’s Swan Lake, artistic director Lourdes Lopez stepped in front of the curtain to give a pre-show speech. She asked for a moment of silence for the choreographer’s family members, who...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 4, 2022 | Onstage, The Latest
This month, Miami City Ballet presents the highly anticipated North American premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s Swan Lake. Originally co-produced by Zurich Ballet and La Scala Ballet in 2016, Ratmansky’s version of the beloved classic harkens back to Marius Petipa and Lev...
by Amy Brandt | May 10, 2020 | News, The Latest
Here’s something new to add to your quarantine watch list: Marius Petipa: The French Master of Russian Ballet, a new documentary by Icarus Films. Directed by Denis Sneguirev, the doc (which will be available for streaming and on DVD starting May 12) explores the...
