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...
by Haley Hilton | Nov 16, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
As a multi-hyphenate artist, ballet dancer Elsa Stallings not only shines across genres but across industries. This year, she’s bringing her unique perspective as a commercial dancer, choreographer, and videographer to the Knicks City Dancers as a creative consultant....
by Dr. Elisabeth Pain | Sep 28, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
Bianca Carnovale was feeling ready to audition for professional ballet companies when the pandemic hit. She was just finishing a two-year training program at Ballet Academy East, having moved to New York City on her own at age 17 after studying at National College of...
by April Deocariza | Jul 17, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
When Buse Babadag left her native Turkey at 15 years old to train at the Munich Ballet Academy in Germany, she often found solace in visiting coffee shops to ease her homesickness. “I would spend hours there because it was warm and the smell of the coffee was so...
by Sophie Bress | May 16, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
Loren Walton is one of those dancers whose career trajectory can be described as impressive without running the risk of sounding glib. At age 16, just four years after his first ballet class—an audition for the Joffrey Ballet School summer intensive—he left his...
by Helen Hope | Mar 14, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
Ballet dancers sometimes “enjoy” a reputation (undeserved) for being overly self-serious. Not Claire Davison, who, since 2013, has been a standout of American Ballet Theatre’s corps de ballet—and also happens to be a trained clown. When she’s not rehearsing at 890...