by Lauren Wingenroth | Apr 30, 2024 | Career, Company Life, Pointe+, Training
Landing your first-ever ballet company contract is cause for celebration. But a contract is more than just a ticket to living out your dreams as a professional ballet dancer. It’s a legal document laying out the terms of your employment—from how much you get paid to...
by Cynthia Bond Perry | Dec 19, 2022 | News, The Latest
Ask any dancer what it’s like to transition from school to a full-time paid position in an upper-tier ballet company, and they’ll likely say that crossing the gap between student and professional can be precarious. This is especially true in the U.S., where companies...
by Lauren Warnecke | Jan 8, 2018 | Career, Company Life
The first time Ashley Wheater was courted to be artistic director of the Joffrey Ballet, he said “Thanks, but no thanks”—he was very happy at San Francisco Ballet, where he’d spent eight years as a principal dancer and 10 more on the artistic...