by Chava Pearl Lansky | May 4, 2017 | News
The ballet world is full of competition, from the recent Youth America Grand Prix to constant auditioning and jockeying for roles. But the English National Ballet takes it to the next level; for the past eight years the company has held its annual Emerging Dancer...
by Hannah Foster | May 15, 2016 | Company Life
Jeanette Kakereka competing for last year’s Emerging Dancer Award. Photo by ASH via ENB. It’s one thing to receive a nod of approval from your boss, but imagine how special it must feel to be validated by your fellow company members. Tomorrow, six English...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | May 5, 2016 | Company Life
Each year, English National Ballet gives one company member the Emerging Dancer Award. Meet this year’s finalists—three men and three women in the company who will compete in front of a distinguished panel of judges on Tuesday, May 17: For more news on all...
by Marina Harss | Mar 31, 2016 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2016 issue of Pointe. At 25, Isaac Hernández is entering his prime, and he knows it. This eternally restless dancer, already a veteran of two companies, recently found a home at a third, English National Ballet....
by Hannah Foster | Feb 3, 2016 | Company Life
Although it’s hard for me to imagine Tamara Rojo, the strong and savvy dancing director of the English National Ballet, as a helpless maiden (or to look away from those steely legs), she wonderfully captures Snow White’s sweet charm. This 2005 clip is from...
by Hannah Foster | Dec 16, 2015 | Everything Nutcracker, Profiles, TBT
In this clip from The Royal Ballet’s 2000 production of The Nutcracker, a 19-year-old Alina Cojocaru, now a principal with the English National Ballet, does the near impossible: she makes Clara’s adoration for a nutty-looking wooden doll appear genuine....
by Laura Cappelle | Nov 23, 2015 | Career, Company Life, Director's Notes
This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. While the 20th century brought a number of high-profile dancing directors, from Rudolf Nureyev in Paris to Mikhail Baryshnikov at American Ballet Theatre, most today don’t juggle...
by Laura Cappelle | Sep 28, 2010 | Company Life
Watching English National Ballet’s corps de ballet glide through the second act of Giselle, it’s hard to imagine the company’s very existence was in jeopardy five years ago. Two artistic directors had resigned in rapid succession, citing insufficient funding among...