by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 24, 2019 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights! English National Ballet Brings Akram Khan’s “Giselle” to Chicago This week, English National Ballet comes to the U.S. for the first time in 30 years. The...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Nov 21, 2014 | News
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. Christopher Stowell’s ballet pedigree runs the length of the West Coast. His parents, Kent Stowell and Francia Russell, founded Pacific Northwest Ballet, he danced for San...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
On a rainy spring evening in the studios of Portland’s Oregon Ballet Theatre, in front of an audience of company supporters and members of the press, Chairman of the Board John Bernard shot dancer Alison Roper and everyone applauded. Roper, clad in the fishnet...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Cincinnati Ballet has tapped some high-powered talent for its 50th-anniversary season: Christopher Stowell, who recently stepped down as artistic director of Oregon Ballet Theatre, and William Whitener, who recently left his Kansas City Ballet artistic director post,...