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...
by Candice Thompson | Oct 12, 2016 | Career, Higher Ed
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2016 issue of Pointe. Upon high school graduation, dancers are often forced to choose between going to college or pursuing a career right away. Since a dancer’s professional life is short, many who put...
by Ellie Kusner | Jul 31, 2016 | Career, Company Life
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2016 issue of Pointe. Five years after joining American Ballet Theatre, corps member Zhong-Jing Fang sustained a serious ankle injury. Not one to let a setback take her off course, Fang wondered: What other things...
by Julie Diana | May 31, 2016 | Career, Company Life
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2016 issue of Pointe. From the outside, one might assume that the stars onstage are leaders offstage, too. It might be so, but life in a company is usually more complex. Opportunities to volunteer, teach or represent...
by Candice Thompson | Jan 27, 2016 | Career, Company Life
This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. When Sarah Walborn first joined San Francisco Ballet as an apprentice, the excitement of joining her dream company soon gave way to dread. “I would go into work every day with fear...
by Maggie McNamara | Nov 23, 2015 | Career, Company Life
This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. At age 15, competition veteran Hannah Bettes traveled to the Prix de Lausanne, her sights set on getting into The Royal Ballet School. The teen left the competition with a...
by Gavin Larsen | Aug 2, 2015 | Career, Training, Wellness
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2015 issue of Pointe. Updated 11/8/22. San Francisco Ballet soloist Julia Rowe’s first run-through of Mark Morris’ intensely complicated ballet Maelstrom did not go the way she’d planned. “I went...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Jun 1, 2015 | Career, Company Life
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2015 issue of Pointe. The off-season may mean rest and relaxation for some, but these pros see it as an opportunity to dive into their own projects. The results of their efforts—a multi-day festival, an...