by Amy Brandt | Nov 24, 2025 | News, The Latest
When married New York City Ballet soloists Troy Schumacher and Ashley Laracey were invited to visit the sprawling Wethersfield estate in 2020, they were scoping possible summer performance venues for Schumacher’s company, BalletCollective. But the grand house and...
by Linnea Swarting | Feb 19, 2025 | News, The Latest
Steven McRae seemingly had an effortless rise to stardom. After winning the Prix de Lausanne in 2003, he graduated from the Royal Ballet School into their main company in 2004 and was promoted to principal dancer only five years later, in 2009. But after McRae...
by Caitlin Sims for Dance Magazine | Oct 11, 2024 | News, The Latest
There’s a new ballet documentary on the scene. Closer Than Yesterday, directed by Lisa Le Lievre, follows San Francisco Ballet’s Carmela Mayo as she prepares for the 2022 Helsinki International Ballet Competition. The documentary shows Mayo, who had recently...
by Amy Brandt | Jul 26, 2024 | News, The Latest
Karen Kain’s 2021 retirement as artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada coincided with one of the biggest challenges of her 50-year career: mounting a new, full-length production of Swan Lake. Directing a ballet was something she’d never done before, and...
by April Deocariza For Dance Teacher | Jun 17, 2021 | The Latest
Michael “Mikey” Cusumano was a rising star at American Ballet Theatre in the 1990s, joining the company at 15 years old and dancing principal roles by age 16. But the high pressure of ballet proved detrimental to his emotional and mental well-being....
by Kate Mattingly | May 6, 2021 | The Latest
If the story of a ballet company presenting performances amidst a global pandemic, a divisive presidential election, and uprisings for justice sounds like it was made for TV, Ballet West has a series for you. In The Balance: Ballet for a Lost Year is a nine-episode...
by April Deocariza | Mar 2, 2021 | News, The Latest
Many ballet companies are sharing digital productions these days, but if you want to get your ballet fix on the silver screen, the Miami Film Festival has something for you—and you don’t have to fly to Miami to see it! Two ballet-centric films, the drama...
by April Deocariza | Dec 7, 2020 | Instagram, News, The Latest
Looking for some extra merriment this holiday season? Disney+ is gifting ballet fans with an inside look at the School of American Ballet with its new show “On Pointe.” The six-part docuseries, which began filming in summer 2019 and concluded in early 2020...