by Margaret Fuhrer | May 20, 2014 | Company Life
Virginia Johnson as Giselle at The Royal, with Zoltán Solymosi Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn in a later performance of The Nutcracker February 1954 Maria Tallchief dances the Sugar Plum Fairy in the premiere of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker. Though...
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 Laura Cappelle | Mar 27, 2014 | Features, Inside PT, Profiles
This is Pointe’s April/May 2014 Cover Story. This past January, a standing ovation greeted San Francisco Ballet’s newest Giselle, Mathilde Froustey, when she took her bows. As she made her debut in the ultimate French Romantic ballet, the former Paris...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Mar 27, 2014 | Company Life
Few relationships are as intimate as the one between a ballerina and her tutu. “There’s such a mystical quality to a tutu,” says Marjory Fielding, wardrobe supervisor at National Ballet of Canada. “I’ve had dancers choose specific tutus because they want the one a...
by Harris Green | Mar 27, 2014 | Company Life
Audiences’ fascination with ballets based on Shakespeare’s plays shows no sign of diminishing. The beauty of his language and the complexity of his characters, whether comic or tragic, historic or fantastic, continue to challenge choreographers to match their artistry...
by Pointe Magazine | Mar 27, 2014 | Company Life
Much has changed since Pointe launched 15 years ago—the emergence of social and digital media, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube; continuing economic uncertainty, which has forced some ballet companies to downsize; the proliferation of competitions,...
by Joseph Carman | Mar 27, 2014 | Company Life
All photos by Matthew Murphy One look at Polina Semionova, the Moscow-born American Ballet Theatre principal, tells you destiny chose her to be a ballerina. Her supermodel looks—with that beautifully elongated torso and even longer legs—have made her a natural...
by Ashley Rivers | Jan 26, 2014 | Profiles
Photography by Liza Voll Attend any Boston Ballet performance and you’re almost guaranteed to see one of the Cirios onstage. Although the sibling principals, Lia, 27, and Jeffrey, 22, are rarely paired, they’re two of the company’s most...