by Oksana Khadarina For Dance Magazine | Dec 8, 2020 | Profiles
Ballet may be a silent profession, but Svetlana Zakharova quite often appears on the stage in front of the audience with a microphone in hand. And this audience measures in the millions. For the past few years, Zakharova, in addition to her busy performance schedule...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 5, 2019 | Dance Spirit, Profiles
When American Ballet Theatre soloist Skylar Brandt’s phone lit up with a message from Julian MacKay last summer, she never could have imagined the journey it would set her on. Brandt barely knew the Mikhailovsky Ballet first soloist—they’d met briefly in...
by Amy Brandt | Jun 1, 2014 | Company Life
How many aspiring dancers have given up because their body type failed to conform to ballet’s ideals? The Ovation network’s new series, “Big Ballet,” which had its American premiere last week, takes weight out of the equation for 18 plus-size dancers. The show follows...