by Hannah Chang Foster | Sep 16, 2015 | Company Life
The ballet Don Quixote depicts classical Russian elegance dressed in fiery Spanish flair. Although Marius Petipa’s version for the Bolshoi Ballet debuted in 1869, most modern productions are based off of Alexander Gorksy’s 1900 revival. He sought to trade...
by Amy Brandt | Jul 29, 2015 | Company Life
According to a report in the New York Times, Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre announced on its website today that it would not be renewing the contract of the ballet’s artistic director, Sergei Filin. Filin, whose contract is up in March 2016, made world headlines...
by Laura Cappelle | May 28, 2015 | Dancer Spotlight, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2015 issue of Pointe. It may be a dancer’s dream to hit the headlines, but Angelina Vorontsova would rather forget the moment she did. Soon after the acid attack on Bolshoi Ballet director Sergei Filin, in January...
by Amy Brandt | Jan 29, 2015 | Profiles, Show and Tell
This story originally appeared in the February/March 2015 issue of Pointe. Bolshoi Ballet leading soloist Olga Smirnova has performed the world over, and nowhere is it more apparent than inside her dance bag. First, there’s the huge bag itself, a souvenir from...
by Pointe Magazine | Nov 20, 2014 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. Steven McRae Commanding presence: McRae in Ashton’s Rhapsody Tristan Kenton, Courtesy ROH The Royal Ballet’s Steven McRae danced with a power and speed most people would...
by David Hallberg As Told To Candice Thompson | Nov 20, 2014 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. Dance was always my refuge. School was hell for me—it was like a page out of Lord of the Flies. Survival of the fittest was the guiding principle of my middle school. While...
by Dana Glassman | Nov 20, 2014 | Features, Inside PT, Profiles
This is Pointe’s December 2014/January 2015 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here. A rush of energy rippled across the Toronto theater, followed by an ovation that went on for what seemed like an eternity. It was June 12, 2013, and Svetlana Lunkina...
by Laura Cappelle | Jan 26, 2014 | Company Life
You danced John Cranko’s Onegin for the first time last year. How did you find your inner Tatiana? Eugene Onegin is my favorite book. As a child, I wanted to become an opera singer. I performed in the opera as one of the little kids onstage. I knew Tatiana’s part by...