by Chava Pearl Lansky | May 14, 2017 | Career, Profiles
Have you ever walked out of a show wishing you could take the costumes home with you? Thanks to Reid & Harriet Design, the label behind many of New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre’s most imaginative contemporary costumes, this dream is becoming...
by Suzannah Friscia | Oct 6, 2016 | Company Life
Lately, it seems like mentorship is having something of a moment: Many pro dancers are coming up with creative ways to give back to the dance community and act as a resource for young students striving to reach the top. Take Kathryn Morgan, who started her own blog...
by Suzannah Friscia | Jul 28, 2016 | Company Life
Every year, the Princess Grace Foundation-USA recognizes a group of exceptional dancers and choreographers with scholarships, apprenticeships and fellowships—and gets us excited about emerging talent to watch. The 2016 Princess Grace Award winners, announced...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Nov 15, 2015 | Company Life
“Ballet for 400!” On Tuesday, November 17, for the second time, contestants on Jeopardy! will take a stab at ballet trivia with the help of dancers from American Ballet Theatre—another event to celebrate the company’s 75th anniversary season....
by Amy Brandt | Aug 25, 2015 | Company Life
Some of ballet’s biggest stars have donated signed pointe shoes to raise money for victims of last April’s horrific earthquake in Nepal. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed over 9,000 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. And while the disaster...
by Amy Brandt | May 31, 2015 | Career
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2015 issue of Pointe. It’s two weeks before the March world premiere of American Ballet Theatre’s The Sleeping Beauty at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California, and principals Diana...
by Gillian Murphy | May 20, 2014 | Company Life
When I was 19 years old and in the corps de ballet of American Ballet Theatre, a domino effect of casting changes left me with three days to learn and prepare my first dramatic leading role: Myrtha, the Queen of the Wilis. There was not enough time to feel...
by Gillian Murphy | Nov 20, 2013 | Company Life
In a recent editorial in The New York Times, dance critic Alastair Macaulay wrote that “the lesson of history is that ballerinadom has been continually redefined.” I believe it is time for a new definition, one that does not hold up Old World glamour or a...
