by Pointe Magazine | Dec 30, 2025 | News, The Latest
As 2025 draws to a close, the team at Pointe is reflecting on some of the stories we enjoyed working on this year and pulling back the curtain on how they came to life. From our interviews with top stars to rising talent and coverage of major moments in ballet, here...
by Amy Brandt | Jul 11, 2025 | News, Profiles, The Latest
July 18 marks the end of an era: Gillian Murphy, American Ballet Theatre’s longest-standing current dancer, will give her final performance in Swan Lake after a 29-year career. (She’s been a principal dancer there since 2002.) Known for her bold technical strength,...
by Kyra Laubacher | Jan 10, 2025 | News, The Latest
The past few weeks have brought another exciting round of dancer career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in 2025’s first ballet roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments After 17 years with The Royal Ballet, Melissa Hamilton...
by Sponsored by Princeton Ballet School, the official school of American Repertory Ballet | Jan 21, 2022 | From Our Sponsors, Summer Study, Training
For five weeks every summer, the university town of Princeton, New Jersey, becomes a destination for ballet students from around the world. As the official school of American Repertory Ballet, Princeton Ballet School’s summer intensive is designed for...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Apr 1, 2020 | News, Training, Viral Videos
With live performances cancelled and dancers stuck at home, American Ballet Theatre has found a new way to reach its audience: Instagram LIVE. The company has just announced a number of upcoming social media events, ranging from a humorous Instagram series hosted by...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 31, 2019 | Profiles
We might be biased, but we think that ballet dancers are unusually good at Halloween. After all, they wear costumes for a living, are familiar with elaborate hair and makeup techniques and own leotards in most colors of the rainbow (the perfect base for any costume)....
by Courtney Escoyne For Dance Magazine | Sep 11, 2019 | Company Life, Viral Videos
At this point, you’d think we’d all be used to the level of technical absurdity Daniil Simkin achieves when he’s playing around in the studio. But then he did this: Login • Instagram …and now we’re low-key appalled in the absolute...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Jul 8, 2019 | Career, Profiles, Trending
On the last day of America Ballet Theatre’s 2018 tour of The Nutcracker in Costa Mesa, California, corps member Alexandra Basmagy couldn’t hold it in any longer. She broke the news to fellow corps members Gemma Bond and Lauren Post that she and her husband...