by Julia Guiheen | May 19, 2021 | TBT
The dance community said goodbye to a hero earlier this month with the passing of Jacques d’Amboise. D’Amboise joined New York City Ballet as a teenager in 1949 and danced with the company for 35 years, leaving an undeniable mark on American ballet. He...
by Julia Guiheen | Mar 17, 2021 | TBT
The ballet world lost an icon earlier this month with the sudden passing of Patrick Dupond on March 5. The French dancer, a former étoile and former director of the Paris Opéra Ballet, had a larger-than-life persona onstage and off. He was renowned for his charisma...
by Julia Guiheen | Nov 18, 2020 | Viral Videos
Natalia Osipova, a current principal of The Royal Ballet, is known for her Kitri and the charismatic bravura she brings to the stage. However, as Dulcinea, the idealized heroine danced by the same ballerina in Don Quixote, Osipova portrays a softer character with...
by Julia Guiheen | Jul 22, 2020 | Viral Videos
Twenty years ago, Nina Ananiashvili, the current artistic director of the State Ballet of Georgia, graced the cover of Pointe’s second issue. At the time, she was a principal dancer with both the Bolshoi Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Her expressiveness and...
by Julia Guiheen | Apr 15, 2020 | TBT
If you need a bit of cheering up as we near the end of another week, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s unbridled charisma in this 1983 clip from American Ballet Theatre’s Don Quixote is just the ticket. Then the artistic director of ABT, Baryshnikov performs...
by Laura Jaye Cramer | Dec 24, 2019 | Career, Instagram, Profiles
When talking about a role like Basilio in Don Quixote, it’s easy to throw around terms like “virtuosic” and “powerhouse.” “Cancer survivor” is less common, but so is Francisco Estevez, the unflappable 30-year-old Colorado...
by Julia Guiheen | Jan 9, 2019 | Profiles, TBT
Updated 5/10/23. The ballet Don Quixote offers its principal ballerina the unique chance to play two different characters in one role: there’s Kitri herself, a vivacious village girl, and then Dulcinea, Don Quixote’s idealized love, who takes on the form...
by Julia Guiheen | Sep 5, 2018 | Profiles, TBT
Back-to-school blues bumming you out? This minute-long clip of Ekaterina Krysanova dancing the first bridesmaid’s variation in Don Quixote is the perfect pick-me-up. The fiery Krysanova, who was promoted to principal at the Bolshoi Ballet in 2011, is a bright...