by Avichai Scher | Sep 23, 2022 | Career, Profiles
In January 2020, Lillian DiPiazza had what many would consider a dream job: She was a principal dancer with Pennsylvania Ballet (now Philadelphia Ballet). But like most of the world at that time, she had no idea how much was about to change, or what exciting but...
by Julia Guiheen | Aug 27, 2019 | Career
American Repertory Ballet’s Ryoko Tanaka remembers her first class in the United States. She was 18 years old and a scholarship student at the Milwaukee Ballet summer intensive. “At barre, I reached out during demi-plié, and I saw the guy across...
by Catherine Conley As Told To Suzannah Friscia | Oct 15, 2017 | Training
When I was 4 or 5, I told my mom, “I want to go to a real dance school with barres and a mirror.” My preschool recommended Chicago’s Ruth Page Center for the Arts. That’s where I trained until I left for Cuba a year ago. I went to regular...
by Justine Bayod Espoz | Jul 6, 2017 | Profiles
Kayoko Everhart’s life and career have been marked by two spectacular journeys. The first is one of geographic movement: Born in Tokyo, Japan, to a Japanese mother and an African-American father, she moved to Tacoma, Washington, at the age of 7. Then as a...
by Laura Cappelle | Nov 24, 2015 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. Russia is often perceived as a closed book from abroad, and ballet is no exception. Though David Hallberg joined the Bolshoi Ballet in 2011, the country’s top companies have been...