by Chava Pearl Lansky | Sep 25, 2019 | Profiles, Viral Videos
Royal Danish Ballet principal Ida Praetorius shares how she personalizes her pointe shoes. First up, she goes into her unique darning technique, followed by an explanation of the extra special ribbons she loves. Click here for more on what’s in Praetorius’...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Sep 9, 2019 | Instagram, Profiles
Ida Praetorius ‘ dance bag is filled with hand-me-downs. The Royal Danish Ballet principal likes her warm-ups to come with a backstory. “It’s what I wear all day. I never wear my normal clothes, so I like bringing the people I love with me,”...
by Anna Maples | Jul 15, 2018 | News
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. Isabella Boylston Curates Her Second Hometown Ballet Festival American Ballet Theatre principal Isabella Boylston moonlights as artistic director of Ballet Sun Valley, which...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Aug 14, 2017 | Call Board, Dancer Spotlight, Inside PT, News
With most of American Ballet Theatre’s classical repertoire under her belt, principal Isabella Boylston is ready for a new challenge, specifically, launching Ballet Sun Valley, a dance festival with educational outreach in her hometown of Sun Valley, Idaho....
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Nov 7, 2016 | Company Life
The 12th International Competition for The Erik Bruhn Prize will take place in Toronto on November 15. The event, which honors Bruhn’s danseur noble legacy, is a pretty accurate predictor of up-and-coming talent. Last year’s winners included NBoC second...
by Amy Brandt | Apr 2, 2015 | Profiles
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2015 issue of Pointe. Before Balanchine and Petipa, there was Bournonville. A key figure of ballet’s Romantic era, August Bournonville directed the Royal Danish Ballet for 43 years during the 19th century,...
by Laura Cappelle | Jan 21, 2014 | Features, Inside PT, Profiles
This is Pointe’s February/March 2014 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here. It’s 10 am on a cool fall morning in a Royal Danish Ballet studio, and only one dancer is wearing pointe shoes at the barre as company class starts: Ida Praetorius....
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
The Royal Danish Ballet’s Ida Praetorius may only be 19, but she’s quickly making her mark on the ballet world. Last year, Pointe highlighted her as one of the standouts of 2011—when she was only an apprentice! Artistic director Nikolai Hubbe had...