by Candice Thompson | Jul 6, 2023 | Digital Cover Star, Pointe+
It’s a recent Monday in June and the dancers of BalletX are deep in the creation process with choreographer Jamar Roberts at the company’s headquarters in Philadelphia. Among them, Ashley Simpson and Jerard Palazo play around with intricate and precarious connection...
by Helen Hope | Dec 28, 2020 | Career, Company Life, Instagram
The coronavirus pandemic has upended plans for dancers everywhere, but perhaps most so for those who signed on with new ballet companies back at the beginning of this year. Pointe asked three of them what it’s really been like to weather the financial precarity,...