by Candice Thompson | Sep 30, 2015 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s October/November 2015 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. On the Starz television series “Flesh and Bone,” Sarah Hay plays Claire, a troubled young dancer getting her first big...
by Brian Schaefer | Aug 2, 2015 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s August/September 2015 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. Visit a New York City Ballet rehearsal on any given day and you may find an unlikely guest named Theo, a 3-year-old Shiba Inu with...
by Joseph Carman | May 31, 2015 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s June/July 2015 Cover Story. Ascending the ranks to “ballerina” status at American Ballet Theatre comprises the stuff of dreams for many dancers. Since its inception in 2003, ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School has been...
by Carrie Seidman | Apr 1, 2015 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s April/May 2015 Cover Story. It’s the day after Christmas and Miami City Ballet’s dancers are taking class onstage in West Palm Beach, where, in a few hours, they will begin the last run of their Nutcracker season. Soloist Nathalia...
by Candice Thompson | Feb 1, 2015 | Features, Inside PT, Profiles
This is Pointe’s February/March 2015 Cover Story. On a rainy October morning, Boston Ballet’s Dusty Button sails through a pas de cinq rehearsal for Swan Lake. The variation is long and thankless, full of uncomfortable jump sequences and tricky...
by Laura Cappelle | Jan 21, 2014 | Features, Inside PT, Profiles
This is Pointe’s February/March 2014 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here. It’s 10 am on a cool fall morning in a Royal Danish Ballet studio, and only one dancer is wearing pointe shoes at the barre as company class starts: Ida Praetorius....
by Elizabeth Kendall | Nov 14, 2011 | Profiles
Alina Somova appears in the distance in the plaza on a hot day during the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival: tall, wedge heels, wide khaki pants, small head, blond French twist, big sunglasses—like a goddess, or an elongated Grace Kelly. This is the...