by Amy Brandt | Mar 15, 2017 | Company Life
On Sunday, March 19, Fathom Events will high-beam the Bolshoi Ballet to movie theaters around the world—and while we tend to associate the Bolshoi with 19th century classics, this time we’ll see their more versatile side. “A Contemporary...
by Hanna Rubin | Feb 14, 2017 | Company Life
Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky will have world premieres on two coasts this winter. On February 10, Miami City Ballet debuted his new one-act version of The Fairy’s Kiss to Stravinsky’s celebrated score, a homage to Tchaikovsky. The following month, on...
by Pointe Magazine | Nov 22, 2016 | Profiles
Miami City Ballet’s National Tour Artists of Miami City Ballet in Justin Peck’s Heatscape. Photo by Gene Schiavone, Courtesy Miami City Ballet. In late April at the Harris Theater, Chicagoans found Miami City Ballet firing on all cylinders, following the...
by Suzannah Friscia | Jun 2, 2016 | Company Life
Stella Abrera as Giselle (photo by MIRA, courtesy ABT) At Pointe, we’re always ready to watch a good ballet video, especially one that takes us behind the scenes with some of today’s most talented performers. An episode of the series NYC-ARTS, which aired...
by Caroline Hamilton | May 31, 2016 | Career
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2016 issue of Pointe. Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky is passionate about promoting the splendor of early Russian ballet and has, over the last few years, mounted a string of reinterpretations of iconic works. This June...
by Hanna Rubin | May 19, 2016 | News
American Ballet Theatre’s Ratmansky Festival is the centerpiece of the company’s spring season at Lincoln Center’s Metropolitan Opera House. Since festivals and celebrations usually come later in a choreographer’s career, it provides an unusual...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Apr 6, 2016 | Company Life
ABT Celebrates Ratmansky Alexei Ratmansky works through Firebird with ABT dancers (photo by Gene Schiavone, courtesy ABT) American Ballet Theatre’s Ratmansky Festival is the centerpiece of the company’s spring season at Lincoln Center’s Metropolitan...
by Hanna Rubin | Mar 31, 2016 | Career
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2016 issue of Pointe. In the Prologue to Christopher Wheeldon’s recent ballet The Winter’s Tale, two boys, princely playmates who one day will become kings, are joined onstage by two women veiled in black....