by Julia Guiheen | Jul 22, 2020 | Viral Videos
Twenty years ago, Nina Ananiashvili, the current artistic director of the State Ballet of Georgia, graced the cover of Pointe’s second issue. At the time, she was a principal dancer with both the Bolshoi Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Her expressiveness and...
by Katherine Beard For Dance Spirit | Jun 3, 2018 | Profiles, Trending
If you know ballet, you know the name Svetlana Zakharova. She’s ballet royalty. Zakharova’s incredible natural facility, paired with her technical precision and emotive finesse, have stunned audiences for more than two decades. She’s danced with many...
by Marina Harss | Dec 18, 2017 | Profiles
“Do you still love ballet?” I ask David Hallberg as we sit in a drab conference room at American Ballet Theatre discussing his new memoir, A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back. The book details Hallberg’s grueling return from a series of...
by Amy Brandt | Nov 13, 2017 | Profiles, Viral Videos
If you haven’t checked your local movie listings yet for this weekend, hop to it. The Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema series and Fathom Events is broadcasting a performance of Jean-Christophe Maillot’s The Taming of the Shrew to theaters nationwide on Sunday,...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 10, 2017 | Career, Viral Videos
Last Thursday was World Ballet Day LIVE, the official 22-hour live-stream relay showcasing companies across the globe. If you were busy (we know that you don’t always have the luxury to spend an entire day watching ballet), don’t fret. Many of the...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Sep 14, 2015 | Company Life
The National Ballet of Canada in rehearsal (photo by Karolina Kuras) World Ballet Day will happen once again on October 1. The Bolshoi Ballet, The Australian Ballet, The Royal Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada and San Francisco Ballet will join forces for...
by Elizabeth Kendall | Nov 28, 2012 | Features, Inside PT, Profiles
Press room, Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, before show time (loud bells interrupt us between 7:40 and 8 pm). Natalia Osipova, American Ballet Theatre’s 26-year-old star ballerina, has come from rehearsal wearing a purple T-shirt over crocheted tights...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Ballet’s spectacle does not always rest in high extensions and multiple pirouettes. In fact, sometimes precision gets lost in a catacomb of tricks. But moments such as the Dance of the Cygnets from Act II of Swan Lake recapture ballet’s purity with meticulous...