by Brian Schaefer | Feb 2, 2016 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the February/March 2016 issue of Pointe. You can thank Kanye West, in part, for inspiring New York City Ballet corps member Devin Alberda to pursue his budding passion for photography beyond Facebook profile pics. It was during the...
by Carrie Seidman | Sep 29, 2015 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2015 issue of Pointe. On a flight home from a teaching stint in California last summer, Miami City Ballet corps member Rebecca King wrote a letter to her former self to post on her popular dance blog, Tendus Under...
by Maggie Foyer | Jul 30, 2015 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2015 issue of Pointe. At Dresden’s Semperoper, one of Europe’s finest opera houses, the curtain comes down on the premiere of David Dawson’s Tristan + Isolde. When Courtney Richardson, as Isolde,...
by Laura Cappelle | May 28, 2015 | Dancer Spotlight, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2015 issue of Pointe. It may be a dancer’s dream to hit the headlines, but Angelina Vorontsova would rather forget the moment she did. Soon after the acid attack on Bolshoi Ballet director Sergei Filin, in January...
by Claudia Bauer | Apr 1, 2015 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2015 issue of Pointe. You could say that Alison Stroming is a model ballerina, literally. This spring, when the Dance Theatre of Harlem member appeared in store signs and a TV commercial for Tumi luggage with...
by Gavin Larsen | Feb 1, 2015 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the February/March 2015 issue of Pointe. Portland’s popular Wonder Ballroom, an indie music club, was packed wall to wall. A sea of hipster 20-somethings crowded in for the headline act: the locally famous band Horse Feathers...
by Claudia Bauer | Nov 20, 2014 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. Looking around Susan Roemer’s San Francisco apartment, you’d never know she’s a ballerina. There are no performance mementos on the walls, no basket of unsewn pointe...
by Claudia Bauer | Sep 23, 2014 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2014 issue of Pointe. It’s a beautiful day in a picturesque village, and Giselle and Albrecht are sharing a milkshake at the town diner. When he ignores a phone call from his girlfriend, Bathilde, she storms...