by Hadley Suter | Feb 4, 2021 | Career, Onstage, Training
The dominant narrative of how a young ballet dancer gets into a professional company generally goes something like this: You’re accepted into a prestigious summer session at a company school, and then get invited to stay year-round. You perform a bit with the...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jan 25, 2021 | Instagram, News, The Latest, Training
In an ordinary year, early February marks an exciting time in the ballet world: the return of the prestigious Prix de Lausanne competition. But this is no ordinary year, so this is no ordinary Prix. Due to the pandemic, the 2021 edition will run from January 31 to...
by Amy Brandt | Jan 19, 2021 | Ask Amy, Training
My school is connected to a professional company that operates on a show-to-show basis. Students can audition for company performances when they’re 15. My 15th birthday is in February, and I think that our directors are choosing people to participate in virtual...
by Oksana Khadarina | Jan 6, 2021 | Instagram
The coronavirus pandemic has not slowed down the Mariinsky Ballet’s Maria Khoreva. Although Russia’s Mariinsky Theater was closed in 2020 from March until August, the 20-year-old first soloist used the time in quarantine to her advantage. She wrote a newly...
by Haley Hilton For Dance Magazine | Jan 5, 2021 | Audition Advice, Instagram, Training
These days, virtual auditions are our new reality. While summer intensive veterans may have polished their in-person audition strategy over the years, Zoom is an entirely different animal. How should you prep your space? What if your technology glitches? What type of...
by As Told To Lydia Murray | Dec 30, 2020 | Instagram, Profiles
For dance—and the world at large—2020 has been one of the most challenging years in recent memory. Yet its stops, starts and slowdowns brought reflection, introspection and growth. Pointe asked three dancers what this year taught them about themselves....
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 Hannah Chang Foster | Dec 20, 2020 | Health & Body, Wellness
If you find yourself with extra downtime this Nutcracker season, but counterintuitively higher stress levels, you’re likely not alone. “COVID-19 has been this underlying baseline stress in the back of everybody’s lives. Whether you realize it or not,...