by Lindsay Martell | Jun 2, 2026 | Dancer Spotlight, Pointe+
Juggling ballet and a second job isn’t unusual, but Cassidy Cocke has taken her part-time side gigs to next-level mastery. The Los Angeles Ballet dancer is responsible for a variety of creative production tasks as assistant to the editor-in-chief of BASIC magazine, a...
by Catie Robinson | Feb 17, 2026 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
When Royal Winnipeg Ballet principal Stephan Azulay was a child, his parents brought him into two of the family businesses: flamenco and food. His father was a flamenco dancer who also owned several restaurants. “Food is more integrated into flamenco culture than...
by Catie Robinson | Oct 30, 2025 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Pointe+, Profiles
When many of Alexander Guzman’s fellow Cleveland Ballet dancers go home after a long day of rehearsal, he sometimes heads to a different kind of studio: the costume shop. Under the name Alessander Lee, Guzman designs costumes for dancers, fashion for everyone, and the...
by Catie Robinson | Aug 6, 2025 | Dancer Spotlight, Pointe+, Profiles
Charlotte Ballet dancer Fuki Takahashi first tried ceramics as a middle schooler in Japan, but she didn’t pick up a block of clay again until the COVID-19 pandemic. She was too busy with ballet, which she had begun in Japan and continued at Princeton Ballet School...
by Catie Robinson | May 30, 2025 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Pointe+
The life of an “emerging artist” is difficult, often defined by low pay and a lifestyle of moving from place to place, joining trainee programs and second companies in search of career advancement. Anabel Alpert lived that life for years before becoming a company...
by Catie Robinson | Jan 30, 2025 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Pointe+, Profiles
The comparisons between dancing and flying are made so often that they become clichéd. Joshua Binowitz, a company artist at Nashville Ballet, can speak on the similarities especially well, considering he does both on a regular basis. Originally from Orange County,...
by Catie Robinson | Nov 26, 2024 | Pointe+, Profiles
What happens when two ballet dancers with opinions on the dance industry and a shared sense of humor get together? For Louis DeFelice and Lucas Labrador, the founders of the dancewear brand Barre Trash, what started as a friendship has grown into a business and a...
by Shaté L. Hayes | Feb 1, 2024 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Pointe+, Profiles
Rio de Janeiro native Fábio Mariano first experienced cold winters when he performed with the New Jersey–based Atlantic City Ballet for its 2016–17 season. His circumstances led him to pick up crocheting. “I had no winter clothes, and I didn’t have a lot of money to...