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...