by Zachary Whittenburg | May 22, 2012 | Company Life
By phone from Europe, where she now performs with a major ballet company, a 24-year-old dancer we’ll call “Claire” recalls the moment she realized cocaine would ruin her life if she kept doing it. She was 19 and training at a renowned ballet academy...
by Laura Cappelle | May 21, 2012 | Features, Inside PT, Profiles
Hours before the Paris Opéra Ballet was scheduled to broadcast La Bayadère live to cinemas worldwide this March, Gamzatti got injured. In a stroke of bad luck, all of the alternates had also been injured. Ludmila Pagliero got the emergency call; the...
by Rachel Elson | May 21, 2012 | Company Life
Dancing in Europe may seem like the ultimate ballet fantasy—elegant theaters, noble traditions, royalty in the audience—but careful planning and some strategic moves can actually get you there. Despite the current recession, some companies are hiring, and...
by Elizabeth Zimmer | Mar 15, 2012 | Company Life
Larry Keigwin revels in the chance to choreograph in conservatories. “It’s like a working audition,” he says. “I’m introduced to dancers who later can come into my company. I like hiring people after I’ve had experience with them:...
by Lauren Kay | Mar 15, 2012 | Company Life
Photos by Jim Lafferty It’s hard to find two more distinctive dancers than New York City Ballet prima ballerina Wendy Whelan and Complexions Contemporary Ballet star Desmond Richardson. Dancing together for the first time, Whelan and Richardson will debut a new...
by Kate Lydon | Mar 15, 2012 | Company Life
Hindsight is 20/20. For a ballerina, having a daughter who wants a ballet career can be both elating and scary. A professional knows all the hardships—injury, pain, competitiveness, disappointment. And she can spot every mistake her daughter makes. It’s a...
by Sylviane Gold | Mar 14, 2012 | Company Life
Scan the bios of the corps de ballet at American Ballet Theatre, and you’re treated to a world tour. Members have trained in Moscow, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Helsinki, Paris and London. Others are graduates of American dance academies from coast to coast,...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Mar 14, 2012 | Company Life
You never have to worry about Skylar Brandt. The 19-year-old corps member is unflappable, whether she’s tackling a performance, a photo shoot or an interview. As a charter student of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School of American Ballet Theatre, she’s...
