by Julia Guiheen | Aug 4, 2020 | Instagram, The Latest, Training
Pointe shoes, with their ability to elevate a dancer both literally and metaphorically to a superhuman realm, are the ultimate symbol of a ballerina’s ethereality and hard work. For students, receiving a first pair of pointe shoes is a rite of passage. The shoes...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jan 7, 2018 | News, Profiles, Viral Videos
Any ballet lover has seen a blurry film of the incomparable Anna Pavlova dancing “The Dying Swan,” but there isn’t much other footage out there to attest to the great ballerina’s talent. That’s all about to change. On February 6, the...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 31, 2017 | Career, Profiles, Trending
For dancers, every day is like Halloween. You don’t have to wait until October to try on new personas and elaborate costumes. But that certainly didn’t stop the ballet world from going full out yesterday. We rounded up some of our favorites across...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Oct 12, 2016 | Company Life
Anna Pavlova may be best known for someone else’s choreographic work (Michel Fokine’s The Dying Swan), but she, too, was a choreographer. Similar to the famous solo, Pavlova’s dances often emulated nature—like in Dragonfly and Californian Poppy. In...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Nov 4, 2015 | Company Life
“With an inner voice the river ran, Adown it floated a dying swan…” -From The Dying Swan (1830) by Lord Alfred Tennyson Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poem The Dying Swan, along with a lifelong fascination with swans, inspired ballet legend Anna...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’ Jerome Robbins Dance Division has an astonishing collection of dance videos—more than 24,000 films, including hundreds of hours of ballet footage. Recently the library has begun digitizing its remarkable...