by Claudia Bauer | Feb 23, 2017 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s February/March 2017 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. Most vacations don’t turn into the job of a lifetime. But that’s exactly what happened when Jahna Frantziskonis took...
by Marina Harss | Nov 22, 2016 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s December 2016/January 2017 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. At some point during her long career with American Ballet Theatre, Stella Abrera started to think it would never happen;...
by Nancy Wozny | Oct 12, 2016 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s October/November 2016 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. Houston Ballet’s Derek Dunn knows how to make an entrance. While just an apprentice in 2013, Dunn catapulted through the...
by Laura Cappelle | Jul 31, 2016 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s August/September 2016 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. What a difference four years have made for Hannah O’Neill. In 2012, as a foreign dancer on a temporary corps contract with the...
by Marina Harss | May 31, 2016 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s June/July 2016 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. It seems that, in ballet careers, everything happens at once. For a few years, you notice a dancer and make a mental note:...
by Lisa Kraus | Mar 31, 2016 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s April/May 2016 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. After Pennsylvania Ballet’s Mayara Pineiro and Arian Molina Soca run their Nutcracker pas de deux in rehearsal, ballet master Charles...
by Laura Cappelle | Jan 28, 2016 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s February/March 2016 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. Last September, as one of The Royal Ballet’s coaches walked her through the potion scene from Romeo and Juliet, Francesca...
by Laura Cappelle | Nov 29, 2015 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s December 2015/January 2016 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. A rehearsal for Balanchine’s “Diamonds” is getting underway in St. Petersburg, and Kristina Shapran is...