by Claudia Bauer | Sep 25, 2024 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
The gold rush of 1863 put Boise, Idaho, on the map, but today the city is experiencing a boom of a different kind. As one of America’s fastest-growing cities—and ranked second on the 2024–25 U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Places to Live” list—Boise enjoys a...
by Emma Love Suddarth | Aug 7, 2024 | Career, Company Life, Pointe+
When Margaret Mullin, a former Pacific Northwest Ballet soloist, took the reins as artistic director of Ballet Tucson in the spring of 2022, she was coming back home. A Tucson native, Mullin had trained at the School of Ballet Tucson and returned at various points to...
by Steve Sucato | Jul 30, 2024 | News, The Latest
This past June, Columbus, Ohio’s BalletMet named Remi Wörtmeyer as its new artistic director. The choreographer, visual artist, fashion designer, and former dancer became BalletMet’s sixth director since its founding in 1978. He succeeds Edwaard Liang, who is now the...
by Steve Sucato | Mar 7, 2024 | Career, Company Life, Pointe+
Madison Ballet’s long-term goal of becoming a full-time professional ballet company finally came to fruition in 2022 with the hiring of new artistic director Ja’ Malik. Founded in 1981 as Wisconsin Dance Ensemble to produce an annual Nutcracker production, the...
by Kirsten Evans | Nov 21, 2023 | Career, Company Life, Everything Nutcracker, Pointe+
Each November, when most of the country is slowing down in preparation for Thanksgiving, ballet dancers are ramping up for their busiest time of the year: Nutcracker season. But with notoriously intense rehearsal schedules eating up precious time and energy, it can be...
by Sophie Bress | Oct 16, 2023 | Career, Company Life, Features, News, Pointe+
Three and a half years after the COVID-19 pandemic brought the performing arts to a halt, the sector is still on somewhat unstable footing. Regional theater is in crisis across the country, and ticket sales and subscription numbers in the industry at large are...
by Claudia Bauer | Oct 2, 2023 | Career, Company Life, Pointe+
Dance may be a wordless art form, but Ballet Hispánico makes itself heard—with a unique artistic voice and an ever-expanding concept of Latinx/Latine culture. “We are a contemporary ballet company, and we celebrate the intersectionality of this culture,” says Eduardo...
by Steve Sucato | Aug 8, 2023 | Career, Company Life, Pointe+
When Dorothy Gunther Pugh founded Ballet Memphis in 1986 (then known as Memphis Concert Ballet), it was with two dancers and a budget of $75,000. A lot has changed since then. The company now employs 18 dancers with an annual operating budget of $4.2 million. And in...