by Emily May | Jun 17, 2026 | News, Onstage, The Latest
When Brits think of Birmingham, they’re more likely to think of it as the birthplace of the industrial revolution than a ballet hub. Yet Sir Peter Wright, the former director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, helped put the UK’s second city on the dance map. Previously...
by Kyra Laubacher | Sep 5, 2025 | News, The Latest
It’s the start of a new season, and the past few weeks have brought another exciting round of ballet career news. Check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in your September 2025 roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments American Ballet...
by Amy Brandt | Oct 31, 2024 | News, The Latest
Every fall, the 24-hour World Ballet Day livestream showcases ballet companies around the globe. Hosted by The Australian Ballet, The Royal Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet (and, until 2022, the Bolshoi Ballet), the event broadcasts company classes and rehearsals,...
by Kyra Laubacher | May 6, 2024 | News, The Latest
The past few weeks have brought another exciting round of dancer career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in this month’s ballet roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments San Francisco Ballet corps members Kamryn Baldwin,...
by Carrie Seidman | Apr 15, 2024 | News, Onstage, The Latest
In 1989, Ariel Serrano, then 17, and Carlos Acosta, 15, were selected from among hundreds of peers at the Cuban National Ballet School to spend a year dancing in Italy as part of a cultural exchange. That year, which Acosta recalls as one of the most beautiful of his...
by Kyra Laubacher | Apr 5, 2024 | News, The Latest
The past few weeks have brought another exciting round of dancer career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in this month’s ballet roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments Bleuenn Battistoni has been promoted to étoile of the...
by Amy Brandt | Jan 3, 2024 | Digital Cover Star, Pointe+
Céline Gittens bourrées forward and lifts her chin confidently, her arms poised in fifth as the accompanist plays the coda of Nutcracker’s grand pas de deux. It’s a moment of sheer delicacy before she launches into fouetté turns, traveling along the diagonal of...
by Catja Christensen | Sep 27, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Headbanging and air guitar? Not the typical movements that come to mind when Birmingham Royal Ballet announces a new full-length work. But the company has been transforming how classical ballet looks and sounds, finding harmony in artistic juxtaposition in Black...