by Julia Rosica | Jan 8, 2020 | Viral Videos
In everything she tackles, Natalia Osipova, a current principal with The Royal Ballet, seems to jump higher and turn faster than other any ballerina. It’s almost impossible to watch her dance without letting out a gasp. Her performance as Medora in Le...
by Dana Nichols For Dance Magazine | Dec 11, 2019 | Career
On Instagram this week, Misty Copeland reposted a picture of two Russian ballerinas covered head to toe in black, exposing the Bolshoi’s practice of using black face in the classical ballet La Bayadère. The post has already received over 60,000 likes and...
by Julia Rosica | Dec 4, 2019 | Everything "Nutcracker", Viral Videos
For many a bunhead, “The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” is not just a holiday tradition, but a rite of passage. The variation, with its tinkling celesta, bourrées and petit battus, is one that all ballet dancers are familiar with, and getting the...
by Amy Brandt | May 16, 2019 | News, Profiles
If you’re making your weekend plans, you may want to clear your calendar for Sunday and check your local movie listings. On May 19, Fathom Events, in partnership with Pathé Live and By Experience, is broadcasting the Bolshoi Ballet’s performance of Carmen...
by Marissa DeSantis | Oct 18, 2018 | Just for fun
Bolshoi Ballet has teamed up with Fathom Events, By Experience and Pathé Live for a fifth season of their Cinema Series, and they’re starting with a full-length classic. On November 11, select theaters throughout the U.S. will host a screening of the...
by Marissa DeSantis | Oct 18, 2018 | Just for fun
Bolshoi Ballet has teamed up with Fathom Events, By Experience and Pathé Live for a fifth season of their Cinema Series, and they’re starting with a full-length classic. On November 11, select theaters throughout the U.S. will host a screening of the...
by Lucy Van Cleef | Oct 9, 2018 | Career, Profiles, Trending
Joy Womack is no stranger to the road less traveled. As the first American graduate of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy and first American woman to join the Bolshoi Ballet, the California native is accustomed to going out on a limb. Now at 24, after spending last season as...
by Amy Brandt | Oct 1, 2018 | News
For the last few years, World Ballet Day has transfixed millions of ballet lovers with its hours and hours of live-streamed classes, rehearsals and behind-the-scenes extras from major companies around the globe. (We here at Pointe certainly don’t get any work...
