by Candice Thompson | Jul 27, 2014 | Profiles
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2014 issue of Pointe. A boxing ring inside a large warehouse during New York’s Fashion Week last spring was the set for Nicola Curry’s latest choreographic adventure. Donning the ornate necklaces,...
by Mary Ellen Hunt | May 28, 2014 | Company Life
Life has always taken Raychel Diane Weiner in unusual directions. “I tend to go wherever the wind blows,” she says. “I like to let things happen.” A lot is happening these days for Weiner, who has left the corps of Ballet Arizona to join the cast of “Flesh and Bone,”...
by Jordan Levin | Mar 27, 2014 | Company Life
Being in a ballet company is consuming enough. Yet Jennifer Kronenberg is branching out beyond her role as a principal dancer at Miami City Ballet. Unlike many ballerinas, Kronenberg, 37, has taught regularly at MCB’s summer intensive. The sometimes startling gaps in...
by admin | Jan 21, 2014 | Company Life
Krista Dowson has a little ritual she performs every time she steps onstage. Ever since joining The National Ballet of Canada in 2000 as an apprentice straight out of Canada’s National Ballet School, the corps de ballet member folds over at the waist and “greets” the...
by Candice Thompson | Nov 19, 2013 | Company Life
Troy Schumacher feels there’s no better education for a choreographer than New York City Ballet. The 27-year-old corps de ballet member has been watching and performing the company’s works since he came to New York City in 2002 as a student at the School...
by Nancy Wozny | Sep 22, 2013 | Company Life
Jacquelyn Long, Photo by Amitava Sarkar, Courtesy Houston Ballet. With her long, slender arms and legs, Houston Ballet’s Jacquelyn Long has a gazelle-like quality—lyrical yet ready to charge through space with aggressive confidence. That may be why she...
by Pointe Magazine | Jul 22, 2013 | Company Life
Pacific Northwest Ballet corps member Emma Love never expected to perform as one of the flirtatious women in Jirí Kylián’s Sechs Tänze. Then barely a year in the corps, Love was fourth in line for the part. But when other dancers got injured,...
by Hanna Rubin | May 27, 2013 | Company Life
Reported by Lauren Kay Natalia Alonso doesn’t have Maria Tallchief’s black hair or chiseled features. But given Alonso’s dramatic flair, honed at Ballet Hispanico and Complexions Contemporary Ballet, playing—and dancing—the...