by Gavin Larsen | May 5, 2026 | Audition Advice, Career, Company Life, Pointe+
BalletMet dancer Grace-Anne Powers remembers her excitement when she learned that choreographer Jennifer Archibald was coming to set a new work. But during Archibald’s full-company casting call, Powers felt suddenly wracked with nerves. “I completely lost my focus,”...
by Rebecca Corey | Apr 14, 2026 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles, The Latest
Ingrid Silva, a leading ballerina with Dance Theatre of Harlem, is wrapping up her final season with the company she has called home for 18 years. But Silva says this is not a retirement. She juggled multiple independent projects while performing with DTH, and her...
by Louise Ryrie | Oct 21, 2025 | Career, Company Life, Pointe+
Have you ever wondered how a choreographer and a composer come together to create a dance work? (Just imagine the conversations that Marius Petipa and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky had when they were developing The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker.) To get a better...
by Martha Ullman West | May 15, 2025 | News, The Latest
After 46 years of leading Eugene Ballet, artistic director Toni Pimble is stepping down from the daily routine of running the company she and then-husband Riley Grannan co-founded in 1978. Associate artistic director Jennifer Martin and resident choreographer Suzanne...
by Steve Sucato | Dec 18, 2024 | Everything "Nutcracker", Onstage, Profiles
One can safely say that Val Caniparoli has been one of the most prolific Nutcracker choreographers of this century. Since 2000, the San Francisco–based dancemaker, who is also a principal character artist with San Francisco Ballet, has created or co-created five new...
by Amy Brandt | Oct 2, 2024 | Career, Onstage, The Latest
Longtime Dance Theatre of Harlem star Ingrid Silva has always kept herself busy with independent projects—she is co-founder of Blacks in Ballet, a platform to celebrate Black dancers worldwide, as well as the nonprofit, female-run podcast podHER. But she’s recently...
by Claudia Bauer | Feb 13, 2024 | Career, Pointe+
“I know how to do choreography,” says Alexandra F. Light. “That’s the easy part.” The Texas Ballet Theater principal dancer, who is launching her choreography career, says that the hard part is, well, everything else—the fundraising, budgeting, networking, and...
by Marina Harss | Jan 22, 2024 | News, Onstage, The Latest
It’s not every day that someone celebrates 10 years as choreographer in residence at the company where he has spent the majority of his own dancing career. Ricardo Graziano, a member of The Sarasota Ballet since 2010, and principal since 2011, has much to celebrate....
