by Kyra Laubacher and Lilliana Miller | Nov 5, 2025 | News, The Latest
The past few weeks have brought another exciting round of ballet career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in your November 2025 roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments New York City Ballet recently announced six major...
by Kyra Laubacher | Apr 5, 2024 | News, The Latest
The past few weeks have brought another exciting round of dancer career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in this month’s ballet roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments Bleuenn Battistoni has been promoted to étoile of the...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 9, 2020 | News, The Latest
This hasn’t been an easy week for San Francisco Ballet: Last weekend the city’s mayor ordered that the War Memorial Performing Arts Center cancel all performances through March 20 to prevent the spread of COVID-19, thus halting SFB’s run of A...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Sep 24, 2017 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Profiles
This Thursday marks New York City Ballet’s annual Fall Gala. Spearheaded by actress and NYCB board member Sarah Jessica Parker, this glamorous event unites the worlds of ballet and fashion by partnering choreographers with top designers to collaborate on new...
by Lucy Van Cleef | Apr 3, 2017 | Career, Company Life
When Holly Dorger arrived in Copenhagen to join the Royal Danish Ballet after graduating from the School of American Ballet, she was shocked by the unfamiliar. “We brought home cat food thinking it was canned tuna,” she laughs, recollecting her first weeks...
by Candice Thompson | Sep 30, 2015 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s October/November 2015 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. On the Starz television series “Flesh and Bone,” Sarah Hay plays Claire, a troubled young dancer getting her first big...
by Maggie Foyer | Jul 30, 2015 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2015 issue of Pointe. At Dresden’s Semperoper, one of Europe’s finest opera houses, the curtain comes down on the premiere of David Dawson’s Tristan + Isolde. When Courtney Richardson, as Isolde,...
by Laura Cappelle | Sep 30, 2014 | Career, Company Life
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2014 issue of Pointe. Every once in a while, a ballet company will come out of left field and reinvent itself in a matter of years. Until Aaron S. Watkin took over as artistic director in 2006, Dresden’s...