by Claire Wu | Aug 27, 2018 | Training
My name is Claire Wu, and I’m a Dance major at Butler University. Earlier this month I went to Hong Kong to participate in the 2018 Genée International Ballet Competition, hosted by the Royal Academy of Dance. The Genée is for dancers who have...
by Amy Brandt | Aug 12, 2018 | News, Training
If you missed the Genée International Ballet Competition’s live-streamed finals this weekend, we’ve got you covered. Last night, 17-year-old Joshua Green of Australia and 16-year-old Monet Hewitt of New Zealand were named this year’s gold...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Aug 13, 2017 | News
Boston Ballet might be the new United Nations. The company’s 2017-2018 roster was announced this morning, and the 65 dancers are representative of 15 different nationalities. Which countries are present at this ballet roundtable? Albania, Australia, Brazil,...
by Emily Katz | May 31, 2016 | Career, Company Life
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2016 issue of Pointe. Photos by Kyle Froman for Pointe As Hong Kong Ballet corps member Xia Jun rehearses his solo from Krzysztof Pastor’s In Light and Shadow, a distinct Eastern flavor of movement exudes from the...