by Caroline Tonks | Sep 18, 2024 | Career, Company Life, Pointe+
In late August and early September, the State Ballet of Georgia toured its full-length production of Swan Lake to the London Coliseum. Led by artistic director Nina Ananiashvili, a former Bolshoi and American Ballet Theatre principal, the 175-year-old company was...
by Julia Rosica | Jul 25, 2018 | Profiles, TBT
The story of Giselle has emotional power in the way it blurs the lines between good and evil. Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis, is often considered the villainess, but her character is far more complex than the bad guys in most ballets. A wounded spirit determined to...
by Julia Rosica | Dec 20, 2017 | Everything "Nutcracker", Profiles, TBT
Gelsey Kirkland and Mikhail Baryshnikov in The Nutcracker are simply iconic—two of the world’s most celebrated dancers in the world’s best-loved ballet. Starring as Clara and the Prince in American Ballet Theater’s 1977 made-for-television film,...
by Julia Rosica | Sep 13, 2017 | Profiles, TBT
This video from Sir Frederick Ashton’s The Dream will transport you to a warm, enchanted summer evening. In this clip from an American Ballet Theater performance from 2004, Alessandra Ferri and Ethan Stiefel play Titania and Oberon, rulers of the woodland fairy...
