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...
by Avichai Scher | Jan 27, 2023 | Dancer Spotlight, Pointe+, Profiles
There are countless videos of ballerinas performing 32 fouettés, but what about 50? Tara Ghassemieh, a principal dancer with Golden State Ballet, recently posted this feat to her Instagram, tagged #danceforIran, marking 50 days of protest in Iran. Tara, who is of...
by Avichai Scher | Oct 14, 2022 | Career, Profiles, The Latest
Dancers who somehow seem to do it all are increasingly common in our culture of hustle. But it’s rare that their list includes touring the world in a boy band, dancing with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, musical theater, choreographing, producing, and giving back...
by Emily May | Sep 2, 2022 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, News, Profiles, The Latest
Trained at Elmhurst Ballet School and KS Dance, British dancer Rebecca Haw openly admits that she struggled auditioning for companies. After two years, she secured her first contract at the Romanian National Opera, Bucharest, dancing in the corps before being promoted...