by Chava Pearl Lansky | Sep 30, 2018 | News
Fall for Dance Festival Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. Fall for Dance Festival Includes Three Ballet World Premieres 2018 marks the 15th anniversary of New York City Center’s Fall for Dance...
by Josephine Lee | Sep 18, 2018 | Profiles, Training, Viral Videos
Earlier this summer, we followed master pointe shoe fitter Josephine Lee of the California-based The Pointe Shop as she made her on a pointe shoe fitting tour around the West Coast and California. Now she’s back, this time on a 45-day tour from California to...
by Amy Brandt | Sep 5, 2018 | News, Profiles
Francisco Estevez is only 29 years old, but he’s battling cancer for the second time. In 2013, the Colorado Ballet soloist was diagnosed with testicular cancer, which was swiftly treated with surgery. But during a routine physical in April, doctors noticed that...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 12, 2018 | Career, News, Profiles, Viral Videos
Valentine’s Day makes February the perfect month for ballet companies to perform Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s famous tale of star-crossed lovers. A few companies presented their versions earlier this month and many are on their way in the next few...
by Joseph Carman | Jan 7, 2018 | Career
Ballet excels at defying gravity. Lightness, ethereality, wispiness, symmetry, lineal order, chivalry and blissful endings to well-worn tales bestow on ballet a reputation as an art form that embraces divine beauty and design. But themes of grief, trauma, death, war,...
by Gavin Larsen | Aug 3, 2017 | Training
Striving for higher extensions, more turnout and bigger jumps may be at the top of your agenda in daily class. But what about those finer points of your technique, the subtleties that make a dancer really shine? They need just as much of your attention, and letting...
by Gavin Larsen | Mar 31, 2016 | Training
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2016 issue of Pointe. Deciding to pursue a career in dance is huge. But even with your eyes firmly on your goal, figuring out the best track to get you there can be confusing and stressful. What school to go to, which...
by Claudia Bauer | Sep 23, 2014 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2014 issue of Pointe. It’s a beautiful day in a picturesque village, and Giselle and Albrecht are sharing a milkshake at the town diner. When he ignores a phone call from his girlfriend, Bathilde, she storms...