by Amy Brandt | May 29, 2025 | Career, Pointe+
For dancers and ballet fans, the new Amazon Prime series “Étoile” has been a rare opportunity to see their favorite art form—however fictionalized on the show—celebrated in mainstream pop culture. The new series, created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino...
by Kathleen McGuire | Oct 12, 2021 | Career
As Jenna Rae Herrera neared the end of her second season with Ballet West II, she knew she would either get a company contract or move on to a new, more uncertain future. “I had fallen in love with this company, and it felt like such a good fit,” she remembers. But a...
by Evelyn Kocak | Aug 27, 2020 | Career
One of my first jobs as a freelance dancer was performing at a gallery opening for the artist Alex Prager in September 2016. The audience was feet away—one miscalculated battement could land squarely in someone’s face. Normally, this situation would have jarred...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Nov 6, 2018 | Career, Profiles
Shoshana Ronsenfield’s career has not followed a straight path. In a surprising move, the born-and-raised New Yorker left a burgeoning career at New York City Ballet in 2012 to study economics at Barnard College. Upon graduating, Rosenfield spent six months...
by Natalia Boesch | Jul 10, 2018 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
How was training at the Cuban National Ballet School different from what you see in the U.S.? It was free education, so it was very hard to get in, and there was a cut every year. We had academics alongside art, and we had to take a lot of different things: modern,...