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...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Melissa Hamilton, a first soloist at The Royal Ballet, will join Semperoper Ballett in Dresden, Germany, for the 2015/16 season. Semperoper Ballett has been directed by Aaron S. Watkin since 2006, and the company has undergone major changes to its repertoire. Watkin...