by Chava Pearl Lansky | May 14, 2020 | The Latest
With the dance world shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, everyone’s looking for new ways to connect. And what better way than podcasts? In the past few weeks, three new ballet podcasts have emerged to join the likes of Conversations on Dance, City Ballet...
by Lauren Wingenroth For Dance Magazine | Apr 21, 2020 | Profiles
Sara Mearns is usually everywhere. If she’s not dancing with her home company, New York City Ballet, she’s working on musical theater projects with her husband Joshua Bergasse, commissioning work from downtown choreographers, embodying modern masters like...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Apr 19, 2020 | News, The Latest, Training
The opening night of a New York City Ballet season is always exciting: Audience members mill about Lincoln Center’s plaza, buzzing with energy, anticipating seeing their favorite ballets and dancers back onstage. The company’s spring season, scheduled to...
by Pointe Magazine | Feb 26, 2020 | Instagram, News, The Latest
Hi there, dance friends. I’m the editor in chief of Dance Spirit and content director of The Dance Edit newsletter. And I’m here with a bit of news sure to excite dancers, dance enthusiasts, and other assorted dance obsessives: The Dance Edit is launching...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | May 6, 2019 | News, Profiles
Ever since 2017, Jennifer Garner has been proving herself as ballet’s biggest fangirl. From her incredible cameo backstage at American Ballet Theatre’s Nutcracker to her insistence that she is the third Cindy, we’ve been here for all of it. This...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 11, 2018 | Profiles
In the fall of 2016, Miami City Ballet corps dancer Rebecca King Ferraro and former MCB corps member Michael Sean Breeden started Conversations on Dance, a podcast dedicated to giving listeners an inside look into the world of professional ballet by interviewing...
by Natalia Boesch | Jul 31, 2016 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2016 issue of Pointe. You took a year off to perform on Broadway as Ivy Smith in On the Town. What did you learn from that experience? If I’m not being classical I can be kind of a goofy dancer, so it was a...