by Suzannah Friscia | Oct 6, 2016 | Company Life
Lately, it seems like mentorship is having something of a moment: Many pro dancers are coming up with creative ways to give back to the dance community and act as a resource for young students striving to reach the top. Take Kathryn Morgan, who started her own blog...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Aug 23, 2015 | Company Life
Ballerinas are ready subjects for blockbusting movies and bestselling biographies: Now, male dancers, too, are having a moment—one that we hope sparks a trend. In his new photography book, Les Danseurs, Matthew Brookes focuses his lens on men of the Paris...
by David Hallberg As Told To Candice Thompson | Nov 20, 2014 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. Dance was always my refuge. School was hell for me—it was like a page out of Lord of the Flies. Survival of the fittest was the guiding principle of my middle school. While...
by Amy Brandt | Sep 22, 2013 | Features, Inside PT, Profiles
It’s a beautiful evening in May, but inside the Metropolitan Opera House the atmosphere is hushed and filled with foreboding. As Lensky in American Ballet Theatre’s Onegin, Joseph Gorak enters the darkened stage. It is a pivotal scene. Heartbroken over a...
by Pointe Team | Feb 1, 2009 | Company Life
For our 10th anniversary, we are singling out some of the dancers and companies we’ve had the pleasure to photograph. Our cameras have caught many of today’s stars on their way up, including David Hallberg, whom Pointe highlighted after his first year in the corps at...
by Tango Tanner | Sep 1, 2006 | Profiles
Outside, the bright sunshine and gentle breezes made for one of those perfect days of May—ideal conditions for the epidemic of spring fever that seemed to have broken out in American Ballet Theatre’s Studio 5. One ballerina crossed the floor in a pair of snowshoes....
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
David Hallberg has reached unprecedented heights as an American dancer. His switch from jazz to ballet as a teenager, his promotion to principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre at the age of 23, his status as the first American star at the Bolshoi Ballet—these...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
American Ballet Theatre principal David Hallberg is back in Moscow again. Although he has danced as a principal with the Bolshoi Ballet since 2011, this is the first time he’s been in Russia since the devastating acid attack on the company’s artistic...