by Allan Ulrich | Nov 20, 2014 | Career, News
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. How long has the “ballet is dead” movement been plaguing us? How long have we swatted away such a preposterous conceit, much as we might swat a pesky mosquito? This obituary...
by Harris Green | Jan 18, 2011 | Company Life
Daylight saving time had been in effect only a few hours last November when New York City Ballet principal Sterling Hyltin entered an NYCB rehearsal studio to recapture history. In Classroom 2 on the seventh floor, the clock had been turned back to 1968, when NYCB...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Pointe caught up with San Francisco Ballet Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson backstage at the New York State Theater in NYC, where the company was performing as part of the Lincoln Center Festival in July 2006. Tomasson, who lit up the stage of the State Theater as a...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
My name is Amanda Schull. I am a fifth-year corps member with the San Francisco Ballet. During my time with the company I have been lucky enough to travel on tour to several different countries. This past September, SFB stopped in Athens, Greece, before heading to the...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
The following is a guest blog by San Francisco Ballet principal Yuan Yuan Tan, currently on tour with the company in Copenhagen, Denmark. Stay tuned for more posts from Yuan Yuan! Things are going very well here on our tour to Copenhagen, but there was a bit of drama...