by Kyra Laubacher | Mar 8, 2024 | 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 this month’s ballet roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments On February 21, the Royal Academy of Dance announced that...
by Guillaume Côté As Told To Gavin Larsen | Aug 3, 2023 | Career, Company Life, Dream Role, Pointe+
Over the course of a dancer’s career, ballets come and go as fleetingly as the effervescent nature of dance itself. So it’s a precious thing when an artist gets to perform a particular role time and again, season after season, developing a relationship with it and...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jun 13, 2019 | Profiles, Trending
With Father’s Day just around the corner, we wanted to take a minute to acknowledge some of the dancer dads out there who are doing double duty at home and onstage. So in between feting the father figures in your life this weekend (and thanking them for sitting...
by Rachel Hellwig | Mar 14, 2019 | Career, Profiles
It’s rare for a professional ballet career to extend two decades or more. But there are indeed dancers who’ve been gracing the studio and stage for that long—learning, adapting and growing along the way. Today, Pacific Northwest Ballet’s...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 24, 2019 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights! English National Ballet Brings Akram Khan’s “Giselle” to Chicago This week, English National Ballet comes to the U.S. for the first time in 30 years. The...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | May 29, 2018 | News, Profiles
This week marks the world premiere of Frame by Frame, The National Ballet of Canada’s new full length ballet based on the life and work of innovative filmmaker Norman McLaren. While those outside of the cinephile community might not be familiar with...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Jun 2, 2016 | News
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2016 issue of Pointe. National Ballet of Canada principal dancer and choreographic associate Guillaume Côté has created several one-act ballets for the company, including 2015’s Being and Nothingness....
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Aug 12, 2014 | News
Next summer, National Ballet of Canada principal Guillaume Côté will add another role to his repertoire—artistic director of Quebec’s Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur. A Canadian version of the Vail International Dance Festival,...