by Pointe Magazine | Dec 27, 2022 | News, The Latest
We asked for your favorite performances this year, and you delivered! 2022 was filled with outstanding onstage moments that left an impression on our readers. While classics like Dracula and Swan Lake were especially popular this year, a variety of performances by...
by Sponsored by Walnut Hill School for the Arts | Dec 13, 2022 | Training
Since 1893, providing a robust and dynamic arts education has been essential to the ethos of Walnut Hill School for the Arts. Originally founded as a private boarding school for young women, Walnut Hill became coed in the 1970s and further honed its focus on the...
by Kyra Laubacher | Aug 10, 2022 | Career, Profiles
Paulina Waski knows stamina. A few days into her first week off since New Year’s 2022, she is already antsy—an understandable feeling knowing she’s just completed nearly 30 consecutive weeks of work with Boston Ballet and ABT, with a single day off in between. After...
by Zoe Phillips and Kyra Laubacher | Dec 23, 2021 | News, The Latest
The end of the year brings an exciting new batch of promotions and career changes from San Francisco to Denmark! Catch up on the ballet world’s latest news before we head into 2022. A New Soloist for San Francisco Ballet View this post on Instagram A post shared...
by Amy Brandt | Jun 14, 2021 | Instagram
Chisako Oga has already experienced so much in her short career. In one year, she went from being a San Francisco Ballet apprentice to a principal dancer at Cincinnati Ballet. Now, she’s spreading her wings at Boston Ballet, where she’s currently a...
by Karen Campbell | May 5, 2021 | Digital Cover Star, Profiles
Chisako Oga is a dancer on the move—in more ways than one. From childhood training in Texas, California and Japan to a San Francisco Ballet apprenticeship to her first professional post with Cincinnati Ballet, where she quickly rose to principal dancer, she has rarely...
by Marissa DeSantis | Apr 22, 2021 | Profiles
Even during a pandemic, Lawrence Rines finds ways to don his carefully collected designer wardrobe. “I was going months without actually getting dressed,” says the Boston Ballet soloist. “So I started this ‘COVID Closet Chronicles’ on...
by April Deocariza | Mar 11, 2021 | Career, Instagram, News, Profiles
Ashley Ellis has enjoyed a storied career that has taken her from American Ballet Theatre to Corella Ballet in Spain, and, during the last decade, to Boston Ballet, where she’s been a principal since 2013. She’s danced leading roles in works by George...