by Kyra Laubacher | Dec 4, 2024 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Throughout her years as a dancer, Claire Kretzschmar had never envisioned herself as a director. But now, the former New York City Ballet soloist is stepping into her fourth month at the helm of Connecticut’s Ballet Hartford. What’s more, she has already planned a...
by Emma Love Suddarth | Jun 25, 2024 | News, Onstage, The Latest
In fall 2018, the ballet community lost a rising talent, Raffaella Stroik. According to her obituary, the St. Louis Ballet dancer drowned in a Missouri lake that November at the age of 23. Her tragic passing shook the dance world, inciting an outpouring of love and in...
by Kyra Laubacher | May 6, 2024 | News, The Latest
The past few weeks have brought another exciting round of dancer career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in this month’s ballet roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments San Francisco Ballet corps members Kamryn Baldwin,...
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,...