by Lauren Wingenroth | Sep 28, 2026 | Career, Company Life, Pointe+
For professional ballet dancers, the start of a new season is an exciting time, with new ballets to learn, new choreographers to work with, and new challenges to tackle. Dancers may have ambitions about the roles they want to perform and the ways they want to grow....
by Linnea Swarting | Jan 12, 2022 | Company Life
Two dancers coming together in a pas de deux represents the humanity of our artform and our natural desire for connection. But while building a strong partnership is rewarding, it’s not always easy. Differing working and communication styles, physical and emotional...
by Shaté L. Hayes | Jun 3, 2021 | Company Life
Updated 10/11/22. You’re performing well year after year, but you’re still not being cast in larger roles. Your work ethic and technique are strong, but, for some reason, your director hasn’t approached you about advancing in the company. Many...
by Helen Hope | Dec 28, 2020 | Career, Company Life, Instagram
The coronavirus pandemic has upended plans for dancers everywhere, but perhaps most so for those who signed on with new ballet companies back at the beginning of this year. Pointe asked three of them what it’s really been like to weather the financial precarity,...
by Gavin Larsen | Aug 12, 2020 | Company Life
Landing a spot as a second company member or trainee is thrilling—your dream is starting to come true! While you’ll still be training intensely, you’ll also have opportunities to perform in company productions and take company class. But the newness of...
by Kathleen McGuire | Jun 1, 2020 | Career, Company Life
Jordan Nicole Tilton had always wanted to dance in Balanchine’s Apollo, and in her second year with Diablo Ballet she got her chance. But during dress rehearsal, she landed a sissonne wrong, sustaining a catastrophic ankle injury that required surgery and put...
by Julia Rosica | Jan 8, 2020 | Career, Company Life
Amanda Farris has never danced in a company with more than 20 dancers. “Growing up we have these notions that we’re aiming for the big companies, and that’s the only place success lies,” says the California native, who dances with the 11-member...
by Candice Thompson | Oct 15, 2019 | Career, Company Life
During one of Charlotte Nash’s first few weeks with Houston Ballet II, she was thrown into a run-through of Balanchine’s Theme and Variations. “I had never really understudied before and I didn’t know what I was doing,” she says. “I...