by Kyra Laubacher | Dec 9, 2022 | News, The Latest
This month has brought another exciting round of career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions and more in this month’s roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments Former longtime principal dancer Victoria Hulland has returned to The Sarasota...
by Lydia Murray For Dance Magazine | Apr 22, 2021 | Site Network
American Ballet Theatre soloist Gabe Stone Shayer’s latest project will inspire some serious travel envy. From March to April of this year, Shayer has been an artist in residence at Palm Heights Grand Cayman—a resort in the Cayman Islands—where he is...
by Amy Brandt | Jan 10, 2021 | Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Dance Teacher, Instagram, The Latest
Gabe Stone Shayer, American Ballet Theatre’s newest soloist, has long been a standout onstage. But the 27-year-old dancer—the first African-American male to graduate from Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet Academy—is also branching out into choreography and...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Dec 13, 2020 | Instagram, Profiles
One of Gabe Stone Shayer’s favorite collaborations happened thanks to his agent, Henri Lemic. In August 2019, Shayer—frustrated after being passed over yet again for a promotion at American Ballet Theatre—started to think about the company’s...
by Amy Brandt | Sep 9, 2020 | Instagram, News, The Latest
This spring was supposed to be one of highly anticipated debuts at American Ballet Theatre, a chance for many soloists to test their mettle in major leading roles at the Metropolitan Opera House. While the coronavirus pandemic shutdown put those debuts on pause, the...
by Gabe Stone Shayer For Dance Magazine | Feb 24, 2020 | Profiles
After years of rigorous training, ballet dancers become accustomed to constructive and oftentimes harsh criticism. Being scrutinized is something that comes with the territory. I myself spent the better half of my high school years in Russia, where political...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jul 2, 2018 | Career, Profiles
In 2016, choreographer Jeremy McQueen founded the Black Iris Project with the aim of bringing together predominantly minority dancers each summer to create works that celebrate diversity and black history. This year, he’s mixing it up. In honor of South African...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Aug 21, 2017 | Profiles
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, chances are that you experienced the eclipse-mania that took over the country yesterday. Thousands flocked to the 70-mile-wide path of totality (the path of the moon’s shadow), which stretched from Oregon to South...