by Jennifer Heimlich | Jan 17, 2012 | Company Life
You wouldn’t expect Navarra Novy-Williams to stand out in a company like Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. Surrounded by powerhouse performers, her 5′ 3″ frame seems delicate, her demeanor demure. But then she begins to dance, and an unexpected...
by Michael Crabb | Sep 11, 2011 | Company Life
Elena Lobsanova catches your eye even before she starts to dance. It’s not just her natural beauty, long limbs and elegant carriage. The 25-year-old National Ballet of Canada first soloist, who last month danced the tragic heroine in Alexei Ratmansky’s new...
by Ashley Rivers | Jul 11, 2011 | Company Life
In company class at Boston Ballet, Keenan Kampa moves with the purity and nobility of a classical Russian dancer. In adagio, the long-limbed corps member seems most at ease with her leg by her ear, yet during grand allégro she leaps gracefully across the...
by Margaret Fuhrer | May 11, 2011 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Inside PT, Profiles
Most talented ballet dancers follow a predictable school-to-company route. Not Beatriz Stix-Brunell. Currently in The Royal Ballet’s corps, she has carved out an unconventional—and already high-profile—career path. Stix-Brunell, who grew up in...
by Harris Green | Feb 24, 2011 | Company Life
Although she can move with the lightness of a dragonfly skimming a pond, a year ago American Ballet Theatre corps member Meaghan Hinkis scored a great success with ABT II by doing no dancing at all. Last spring, she performed the role of a mourning widow visiting the...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Jan 18, 2011 | Profiles
On a stage filled with dainty Danish dancers, Shelby Elsbree looks very American: spunky, playful and a little bit feisty. Even in the prim, polite confines of Bournonville choreography, this 20-year-old Royal Danish Ballet corps member moves with a sense of bubbly...
by Amy Brandt | Nov 17, 2010 | Company Life
As the curtain closed on the tender image of Juliet intertwined with her Romeo, the audience at Minneapolis’ Northrop Auditorium paused, letting the raw abandon of Sara Ivan’s performance wash over them before breaking into thunderous applause. Ivan had poured heart...
by Joseph Carman | Sep 26, 2010 | Company Life
Whenever Kaitlyn Gilliland steps out of the corps de ballet to dance principal roles—and she has done so often since joining the company as an apprentice in 2005—she dances with an artistry that rivals the troupe’s top ballerinas. Creamy-skinned, nearly 5’ 11”, with a...