by Gavin Larsen | Sep 13, 2018 | Profiles, Technique
Tricia Albertson, as told to Gavin Larsen. I like to make people laugh, so I was excited to be cast as the Mad Ballerina in Jerome Robbins’ The Concert. But the character herself didn’t feel like me. She’s so bubbly and excited, and I’m a bit...
by Gavin Larsen | Jul 9, 2018 | Profiles, Technique
As told to Gavin Larsen by Whitney Jensen My first time dancing Petite Mort—or any ballet by Jiří Kylián—I was 17 and in the corps of Boston Ballet. I didn’t know it then, but the stager, Roslyn Anderson, was nervous about me doing it because I was so young. I...
by Lauren Cuthbertson | Mar 13, 2018 | Dream Role, Profiles
As told to Laura Cappelle. I knew before Christopher Wheeldon even started Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland that he wanted me to create the title role. We made Alice together. We feel like she is our girl! She’s charming, witty, tough, curious. She’s...
by Céline Gittens As Told To Amy Brandt | Dec 17, 2017 | Dream Role, Profiles
Our company’s Nutcracker was choreographed by Sir Peter Wright, and it’s very traditional. We usually only have two weeks to prepare after the end of the autumn season, so my partner and I start going over the grand pas de deux on our own time before...
by Sterling Hyltin As Told To Gavin Larsen | Oct 29, 2017 | Career, Profiles, Technique
I just can’t help feeling joy when I dance the Waltz Girl. Afterwards, I feel so at peace and nourished as a ballerina. I love to scuba dive, and Serenade reminds me of a reef, with schools of fish in all these different groupings, and singular entities darting...
by Julie Diana Hench | Sep 18, 2017 | Dream Role, Profiles, Technique
As told to Julie Diana Juliet is one of my favorite roles—you go through every emotion in just three acts. I had done different versions of the ballet before, but it was an amazing opportunity when my director Stanton Welch created the role for me. I watched a...
by Laura Cappelle | Apr 3, 2017 | Profiles, Technique
In Wayne McGregor’s high-octane Chroma, The Royal Ballet’s Sarah Lamb finds meditative stillness. As told to Laura Cappelle Chroma was the first ballet I worked on with Wayne McGregor, and it was like embarking on a relationship for the first time....
by Amy Brandt | Feb 22, 2017 | Profiles, Technique
As told to Amy Brandt by Leta Biasucci I first saw a video of The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude as a student at the San Francisco Ballet School summer program. Then we learned a little bit of it in variations class, and it made such an impression on me. It was...
