by Kyra Laubacher | Jun 27, 2022 | Onstage, The Latest
When choreographer Christopher Williams was 20, he saw Matthew Bourne’s reimagining of Swan Lake with its corps of all-male swans. The performance, he says, made him burst into tears and think, “I must do something like this someday.” Williams’ dream will be realized...
by Caroline Hamilton | Dec 21, 2020 | Instagram
The tutu has become the symbol of the ballerina. But what is the history of this strange protruding skirt which allegedly gets its name from the French children’s word cucu, meaning “bottom”? Pointe took a look back at some important moments in...
by Amy Brandt | Jun 21, 2016 | Company Life
Baryshnikov in Letter to a Man. Photo by Lucie Jansch, Courtesy Cal Performances UC-Berkeley. Mikhail Baryshnikov may have left the classical ballet stage long ago, but his artistic curiosity remains endless—and at 68, he remains endlessly captivating....
by Hannah Chang Foster | Jan 27, 2016 | Company Life
Yvonne Chouteau, former ballerina with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and one of Oklahoma City Ballet’s founding artistic directors, died on Sunday at 86 years old. Chouteau was one of the “Five Moons,” five Native American ballerinas from Oklahoma who...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
The Ballets Russes famously emphasized collaboration between choreographers and composers, and Alonzo King’s work with world musicians follows in this tradition. It’s fitting, then, that Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet is scheduled to open the Monaco Dance Forum’s...