by April Deocariza | May 25, 2021 | Career, News, Profiles
There seems to be subscription boxes for everything these days from health and beauty, to pet care, wine and even calligraphy. Now ballet is no exception. Tulle Box, a new subscription box of ballet goodies, launched on April 5 and brings together various products to...
by Amy Brandt | Apr 11, 2021 | The Latest
Last week, Ballet West announced that first soloists Katlyn Addison and Hadriel Diniz have been promoted to principal artist. The news marks a historic moment for the company. Addison, who is Canadian, will be the first Black principal dancer in Ballet West’s...
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...
by Maggie Small | Jan 11, 2021 | Career, Company Life, Instagram
By nature, dancers are dedicated to preparing and rehearsing. Whether thinking ahead by sewing multiple pairs of shoes or making sure their plié is the perfect preparation for a pirouette, they practice forethought with as much regularity as taking daily class....
by Amy Brandt | Jan 7, 2021 | Instagram, News, The Latest
This week, San Francisco Ballet artistic director Helgi Tomasson announced that he will be leaving his post in 2022, after 37 years at the helm. Tomasson—a former dancer with Harkness Ballet, Joffrey Ballet and New York City Ballet—has led SFB since 1985,...
by Helen Hope | Dec 28, 2020 | Career, Company Life, Instagram
The coronavirus pandemic has upended plans for dancers everywhere, but perhaps most so for those who signed on with new ballet companies back at the beginning of this year. Pointe asked three of them what it’s really been like to weather the financial precarity,...
by Nancy Wozny | Nov 10, 2020 | Career, Company Life, Instagram, News, Profiles, The Latest
In October, New York City Ballet announced that former Houston Ballet principal Chun Wai Chan would be joining the company as a soloist for the 2021–22 season. Born and trained in Guangzhou, China, Chan moved to the U.S. to join Houston Ballet II in 2010,...