by Marina Harss | Nov 24, 2015 | Career, Dance History
This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. It’s a truth often repeated about ballet that it is an art with a strong oral tradition, handed down from generation to generation. Aspiring dancers learn the same steps that their...
by Amy Brandt | May 31, 2015 | Career
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2015 issue of Pointe. It’s two weeks before the March world premiere of American Ballet Theatre’s The Sleeping Beauty at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California, and principals Diana...
by Claudia Bauer | Feb 1, 2015 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the February/March 2015 issue of Pointe. A rehearsal viewing can be daunting for any young choreographer. But when the person watching you work is Alexei Ratmansky, one of the world’s greatest living choreographers, it could...
by Elizabeth Kendall | Nov 28, 2012 | Features, Inside PT, Profiles
Press room, Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, before show time (loud bells interrupt us between 7:40 and 8 pm). Natalia Osipova, American Ballet Theatre’s 26-year-old star ballerina, has come from rehearsal wearing a purple T-shirt over crocheted tights...
by Elizabeth Kendall | Nov 17, 2010 | Company Life
Back in St. Petersburg in 1892, when those four courtier-artists (director Vsevolozhsky, composer Tchaikovsky, ballet masters Petipa and Ivanov) were concocting their magical grownup-child ballet The Nutcracker, no one could have dreamed that 100-plus years later...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Apr 1, 2009 | Company Life
Osipova Guest Stars Twenty-three-year-old Bolshoi dynamo Natalia Osipova, known for her buoyant jump and vibrant stage presense, will appear as a guest artist with American Ballet Theatre during its spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House dancing Giselle and La...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
(Photo by Nisian Hughes) Nisian Hughes Nisian Hughes Nisian Hughes Wendy Whelan’s October 18 performance with New York City Ballet will be her last with the company. While it’s traditional for ballerinas to perform their most iconic or favorite...
by Pointe Magazine | Nov 28, 2001 | Everything "Nutcracker", News
It’s news that, as a New Yorker, I am selfishly sad to report: American Ballet Theatre has announced that its The Nutcracker, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky, will move to the west coast in 2015. Its last New York performance will be this December at the...