by Chava Pearl Lansky | Apr 19, 2020 | News, The Latest, Training
The opening night of a New York City Ballet season is always exciting: Audience members mill about Lincoln Center’s plaza, buzzing with energy, anticipating seeing their favorite ballets and dancers back onstage. The company’s spring season, scheduled to...
by Cadence Neenan | Jul 7, 2019 | Instagram, Profiles, Trending
New York City Ballet soloist Claire Kretzschmar has had the chance to perform just about everywhere: New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Shanghai, you name it. But one of her most inspiring performance opportunities came a little less than a month ago, dancing with her...
by Rachel Hellwig | Nov 19, 2018 | Everything Nutcracker, Profiles, Training, Trending
What bunhead hasn’t dreamed of dancing Clara in Nutcracker? But with so many young dancers aspiring to the role, casting disappointments are inevitable each year. Today, three professionals share their childhood Clara casting disappointments and what helped them...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 14, 2018 | News
On October 13, the evening before the close of New York City Ballet’s fall season and longtime principal Joaquin De Luz’s retirement performance, Jonathan Stafford, the leader of the company’s interim artistic team, promoted seven company dancers:...
by Pointe Magazine | Jul 31, 2016 | Profiles
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2016 issue of Pointe. Every corps de ballet has a few bright standouts. Here are 10 young dancers on the rise. Norika Matsuyama in “Don Quixote.” Photo by Erik Tomasson, Courtesy SFB. Norika Matsuyama,...