by Amy Brandt | Sep 30, 2015 | Career
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2015 issue of Pointe. “Cut!” Ethan Stiefel’s voice booms from behind a monitor. The cast of “Flesh and Bone,” the Starz network’s new television series set in a New York City ballet...
by Amy Brandt | Apr 28, 2015 | Company Life
If you are eagerly awaiting the November 8 premiere of Starz’s gritty ballet drama “Flesh and Bone,” you’re in luck. The network released its first trailer of the eight-hour limited series yesterday—and it looks pretty tantalizing. The...
by Shannon Woods | Mar 4, 2015 | Company Life
If you call yourself a “bunhead”, you’ve seen the movie Center Stage. It’s ballet’s pop culture classic–and for some dancers outside of New York, it may be their first time seeing American Ballet Theatre principal Julie Kent. Since...
by Gillian Murphy | May 20, 2014 | Company Life
Photography by Joe Toreno. When I was 19 years old and in the corps de ballet of American Ballet Theatre, a domino effect of casting changes left me with three days to learn and prepare my first dramatic leading role: Myrtha, the Queen of the Wilis. There was not...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Ten! How amazing to realize that 2009 begins Pointe’s 10th year of publication. It has been a wonderful, enriching experience to be the editor of this magazine. I’ve learned so much and, in the process, come to love the world of ballet even more than in my...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Before—though not long before—they were immortalized as Cooper Nielson and Kathleen Donahue (Center Stage, we’ll never stop loving you), Ethan Stiefel and Julie Kent starred in the 1998 PBS broadcast of American Ballet Theatre’s Le Corsaire....
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Ethan Stiefel’s sojourn abroad will soon come to an end: The former American Ballet Theatre principal has not renewed his artistic director contract with Royal New Zealand Ballet. Many in the ballet world expressed surprise when Stiefel first joined the RNZB...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
What makes a great ballet partnership? To most of us, it seems to be some mysterious combination of sweat and magic. Earlier this week, The New Zealand Herald posed the question to Gillian Murphy, who’s currently starring as Odette/Odile in the Royal New...