by Gavin Larsen | Apr 8, 2019 | Cross-Training, Health & Body, Nutrition
Kelsie Nobriga’s first run-through of Nacho Duato’s Rassemblement was a wake-up call. Until then, the Oregon Ballet Theatre soloist had only rehearsed individual sections of the ballet, unaware that she’d have little time to recover in between each...
by Jenny Ouellette | Jan 27, 2019 | Career, Company Life
Pacific Northwest Ballet soloist Margaret Mullin will never forget one of her first big breaks as a young company member: a debut as Bluebird in The Sleeping Beauty alongside Jerome Tisserand. At the time, she recalls, PNB was auditioning different conductors, so she...
by Dance Teacher | Jan 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Whether it’s a wardrobe malfunction or a spectacular, opera-house–sized fail, onstage mistakes happen to everybody. See how these four professionals survived their worst mishaps—and what they took away from them. Baca in Ben Stevenson’s...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Sep 24, 2018 | Career, Company Life, Dance Teacher
Whether it’s a wardrobe malfunction or a spectacular, opera-house–sized fail, onstage mistakes happen to everybody. See how these four professionals survived their worst mishaps—and what they took away from them. Baca in Ben Stevenson’s...
by Avichai Scher | May 28, 2018 | Career, Company Life
Molly Smolen started her professional career at age 14 as an apprentice with Cincinnati Ballet, and then joined American Ballet Theatre at 15 years old. Onstage, her talent and technique made her fit in with adults, but offstage, her young age caused problems. Smolen,...
by Lucy Van Cleef | Apr 3, 2017 | Career, Company Life
When Holly Dorger arrived in Copenhagen to join the Royal Danish Ballet after graduating from the School of American Ballet, she was shocked by the unfamiliar. “We brought home cat food thinking it was canned tuna,” she laughs, recollecting her first weeks...
by Candice Thompson | Feb 22, 2017 | Audition Advice, Career
A debilitating illness forced Katelyn Prominski to retire early from Pennsylvania Ballet. However, once she recovered, she felt ready to tackle a new stage: Broadway. But before she began booking musicals like Flashdance and Dirty Dancing, she had to reckon with a new...
by Candice Thompson | Nov 21, 2016 | Career, Summer Study
While New York City Ballet was off last August, corps member Sasonah Huttenbach was hard at work at the Danish Ballet Masters program, a two-week Bournonville workshop in New York City led by former Royal Danish Ballet dancers Mogens Boesen and Linda Hindberg. While...