by Alexandra Martin | Aug 5, 2021 | Career, Training
For many performing artists, Instagram has evolved into an online portfolio. Photo shoots may feel like a regular necessity to keep visual material up to date. But there’s certainly a difference between a successful and an unsuccessful ballet photo shoot, even in an...
by Amy Brandt | Aug 9, 2018 | Company Life
Chances are, you’ve seen (and “liked”) photographer Omar Z Robles’ beautiful shots of ballet dancers on social media. Rather than clean and tidy studio photos, his work captures dancers (“the ultimate subject,” he says) outside and...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jul 2, 2018 | Career, Profiles
In 2016, choreographer Jeremy McQueen founded the Black Iris Project with the aim of bringing together predominantly minority dancers each summer to create works that celebrate diversity and black history. This year, he’s mixing it up. In honor of South African...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Recently, I was lucky enough to get some gorgeous photographs of dancers from San Francisco Ballet and New York City Ballet to post in pointemagazine.com’s web exclusives section. Most of the images we run in Pointe feature professionals. I love looking at their...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Here at Pointe, we’re lucky to work with several of the ballet world’s best photographers. While some of them came to dance photography through roundabout routes, others were dancers first. And former dancers have an insider’s understanding of how to...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Bugge’s take on the Royal Danish Ballet in La Bayadére The best ballet photographers have the intuition of a dancer. They know exactly how to catch the greatest height of a jump or the top of an arabesque. But form aside, very few can translate the thrill and...