by Rachel Hellwig | Oct 12, 2020 | Career, Health & Body, Instagram
Editor’s note: Last week in a viral YouTube video, Kathryn Morgan shared that she decided to leave Miami City Ballet, where she was a soloist, after she was taken out of roles because of her body. In our Fall 2020 issue, we spoke with Morgan about the experience...
by Suzannah Friscia | Jan 27, 2020 | Career, Instagram, Profiles, Trending
A couple years ago, if you had told Kathryn Morgan that she’d be a soloist at Miami City Ballet, learning roles like the Firebird, Mercedes in Don Quixote and the Striptease Girl in Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, she would have said you were crazy. But last April,...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 25, 2018 | News, Profiles, Trending, Viral Videos
As the star of the 20th Century Fox thriller Red Sparrow (opening March 2), actress Jennifer Lawrence plays Dominika Egorova, a former Bolshoi ballerina who becomes a dangerous and cunning spy. Though ballet is relegated only to the first 10 minutes of the film,...
by Caroline Hamilton | Oct 19, 2017 | Company Life
I am a self-confessed costume nerd who really needs little persuasion to travel nearly 3,000 miles to see a costume exhibition—which is what I did when I set off for California for the new exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Chagall: Fantasies for...
by Hannah Foster | Sep 1, 2016 | Company Life
Cynthia Gregory as the Firebird. Photo by Max Waldman via Flick River. “All-American” and “exotic bird” don’t usually appear in the same context. When Cynthia Gregory appears in an American Ballet Theatre performance of Firebird, however,...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | May 2, 2016 | Company Life
We’ve grown accustomed to seeing American Ballet Theatre principal Misty Copeland everywhere: Doing outreach in Rwanda, as a guest editor at Dance Magazine, walking the red carpet at the Met Gala, rehearsing for her multiple roles in ABT’s spring...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
When I first saw Alexandra Ansanelli, she was darting across the stage with blazing vitality as the Firebird with New York City Ballet. Her fierce, staccato movements possessed all the daring and energy that characterizes the Balanchine style. At that moment, the...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Everybody wants a piece of Alexei Ratmansky these days. Even Magnolia Bakery. In honor of the New York premiere of Firebird, his latest ballet for American Ballet Theatre, Magnolia is whipping up special Firebird Cupcakes. Vibrant orange date cake is frosted with...