by Lisa Traiger | Mar 31, 2010 | Company Life
The Washington Ballet’s Septime Webre keeps an eye on the past and the future. In a company as small as The Washington Ballet, dancers don’t get lost in the corps. With just 20 members and two apprentices, artists perform frequently and get plenty of opportunities to...
by Michael Crabb | Jan 27, 2010 | Company Life
The National Ballet of Canada’s Karen Kain On a sunny fall morning, in a large, bright studio filled with Tchaikovsky, Karen Kain sits intently watching rehearsal. Now in her fifth season as artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, Kain has an eagle...
by Susan Chitwood | Nov 22, 2009 | Company Life
Tulsa Ballet’s Marcello Angelini builds an international troupe in the heart of Oklahoma. At first glance, the 28 members of Tulsa Ballet seemed to vanish, chameleon-like, into their roles when they performed last August at New York City’s Joyce Theater. Had...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
If anyone had questioned Nikolaj Hübbe’s capacity to give the venerable Royal Danish Ballet a jolt of fresh energy, those doubts should have been laid to rest last March. Hübbe, who became RDB artistic director in July 2008, thrilled audiences in...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
For anyone interested in dancing with The Joffrey, the important thing to understand is that we are a non-ranked company—every dancer must be willing to do everything. Of course there are always leading dancers, but we couldn’t do something like The Rite...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
With a history reaching back to Louis XIV, the Paris Opéra Ballet is one of the dance world’s most tradition-bound institutions. The 154-member company is strictly hierarchical, with casting strongly influenced by rank: leading roles go almost without...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
A woman’s arms flap furiously, like Odette on steroids, caught in a piercing shaft of light. Drained of emotion or poignancy, her pointe shoes probe the floor with primal force. While familiar melodies from Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty morph and merge in...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Whether they’re making microchips or running ballet companies, they think innovatively in Silicon Valley. Consider Ballet San Jose, the primary dance organization in Northern California’s largest city. Founding artistic director Dennis Nahat has defied the...