by Hannah Chang Foster | Sep 5, 2017 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Profiles
In 2015, Ballet West dancer Emily Adams was promoted to principal; the milestone achievement left her feeling inspired—but also a little unbalanced. “Through the daily intensity, I wasn’t enjoying everything as much as I should have been,” she...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Aug 29, 2017 | Health & Body, Training
Five years ago, an idea popped into the head of longtime Ballet West patron and practicing psychologist Dr. Aharon Shulimson: “Do ballet dancers’ brains function differently than the rest of us?” Shulimson and his wife Julie Terry, president of the...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Aug 21, 2017 | Profiles
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, chances are that you experienced the eclipse-mania that took over the country yesterday. Thousands flocked to the 70-mile-wide path of totality (the path of the moon’s shadow), which stretched from Oregon to South...
by Madeline Schrock | Apr 3, 2017 | Cross-Training, Profiles
A fresh perspective: Last year, Katie Critchlow went through seven months of recovery for a debilitating ankle sprain, but the process transformed her outlook on cross-training: “You think that doing ballet class every day is enough, but it’s not,”...
by Joseph Carman | Feb 22, 2017 | Career, Company Life
After scouting for a ballet company to feature in the melodramatic reality show “Breaking Pointe,” the producers made a U-turn back to Adam Sklute, the CEO and artistic director of Ballet West in Salt Lake City. “They said, In our screen tests, your...
by Madeline Schrock | Nov 1, 2016 | Company Life
For American audiences, Balanchine’s “Rubies” is instantly recognizable. Cuban audiences, though, have never seen the iconic work, due to over five decades of severed diplomatic relations with the U.S. That will change this Sunday, when Beckanne Sisk...
by Pointe Magazine | May 18, 2016 | Company Life
For the last two years, Ballet West’s Emily Adams choreographed for the company’s Innovations program. Now, she’s standing on the other side of the studio, preparing to dance in Jessica Lang’s Lyric Pieces. Adams spoke with Pointe about working...
by Claudia Bauer | Jan 28, 2016 | Career, Profiles
This article originally appeared in the February/March 2016 issue of Pointe. Murphy and Stiefel. Ogden and Côté. Osipova and Polunin. Ballet inspires as many thrilling partnerships offstage as on. Company romances are so common, in fact, you might say...