by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 1, 2024 | Career, Pointe+
To get to know our March/April digital cover star a little bit better, we asked her 12 quickfire questions. Read on for New York City Ballet soloist Emily Kikta’s go-to snack, current music obsession, pre-show routine, and more. What is your favorite step or part of...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 1, 2024 | Digital Cover Star, Pointe+
Onstage, Emily Kikta isn’t afraid to take up space. Dancing the Choleric variation in George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, she enters with a bang, propelling herself across the Koch Theater stage, throwing out razor-sharp arabesques and hitch-kicks with wild...
by Kyra Laubacher | Jan 19, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
In February 2015, Justin Peck premiered his Bessie Award–winning Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes, a ballet set to a symphonic arrangement of Aaron Copland’s iconic Rodeo score. Now in his ninth year as New York City Ballet’s resident choreographer, Peck takes a full dive...
by Kyra Laubacher | Jul 13, 2020 | News, The Latest, Viral Videos
For the past three years, New York City Ballet dancers Emily Kikta and Peter Walker have created a series of site-specific dance films promoting the company’s annual summer residency at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Although this summer’s...
by Cadence Neenan | Jul 15, 2019 | Profiles, Viral Videos
Tonight, New York City Ballet opens its 53 annual summer season at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. But if you’re away at a summer intensive or busy rehearsing at your home studio and can’t make it to a performance, we have the next best thing: seven...
by Marissa DeSantis | Jul 12, 2018 | Just for fun, News, Viral Videos
What do you do when you finally have some time off after a busy season? Well, if you’re the dancers of New York City Ballet, you find new ways to dance, obviously. Ahead of the company’s 52nd annual residency at Saratoga Performing Arts Center, corps...
by Amy Brandt | Jul 1, 2017 | Company Life
Yesterday we told you about New York City Ballet corps dancers Emily Kikta and Peter Walker, the duo behind the Saratoga Performing Arts Center’s video campaign in advance of NYCB’s summer residency. Each day this week, SPAC has released one of eight short...
by Amy Brandt | Jun 30, 2017 | Career
Here at Pointe, we love dancers who use their talent to tap into other creative projects. For New York City Ballet corps dancers Emily Kikta and Peter Walker, their mutual love of choreography and film-making has yielded a major commission: creating eight short,...