by Rebecca Corey | Apr 14, 2026 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles, The Latest
Ingrid Silva, a leading ballerina with Dance Theatre of Harlem, is wrapping up her final season with the company she has called home for 18 years. But Silva says this is not a retirement. She juggled multiple independent projects while performing with DTH, and her...
by Michael Henry Shavelle | Jul 18, 2025 | News, The Latest
We are still feeling the inspiration from last weekend’s Pointe Live Classes & Conversations event! Upwards of 60 dancers from around the country gathered at Broadway Dance Center’s Lincoln Center campus in New York City for a fun, packed day of dance, sponsored...
by Pointe Magazine | Jul 7, 2025 | News, The Latest
Save the date! We’re so excited to announce that Pointe Live Classes & Conversations is returning to New York City this summer on Saturday, July 12. Our New York City event will take place at Broadway Dance Center’s Lincoln Center campus (on 65th Street)....
by Amy Brandt | Oct 2, 2024 | Career, Onstage, The Latest
Longtime Dance Theatre of Harlem star Ingrid Silva has always kept herself busy with independent projects—she is co-founder of Blacks in Ballet, a platform to celebrate Black dancers worldwide, as well as the nonprofit, female-run podcast podHER. But she’s recently...
by Linnea Swarting | Feb 22, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Ingrid Silva has several titles—dancer, founder, activist and author among them. But the one that’s changed her life the most is “Mom.” “Since becoming a mother, something’s happened to me, my dancing and my work that’s blowing me away,”...
by As Told To Zoe Phillips | Aug 4, 2021 | Career, Company Life
Mathilde Froustey has always wanted to be a mother. “I never saw myself just as a dancer,” says the San Francisco Ballet principal. “Backstage, onstage, even when I was getting ready for a show, I knew something was missing. And I knew what it was.”Now almost nine...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 17, 2020 | Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Profiles, Viral Videos
Yesterday, the first of Nike’s new Common Thread video series dropped, and we were thrilled to see that it featured dancers; namely, Dance Theatre of Harlem member (and June/July 2017 Pointe cover star) Ingrid Silva, and Florida-based ballet student Alex Thomas....
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Apr 7, 2019 | News, Profiles, Viral Videos
Yesterday, pointe shoes made national news when “The Today Show” covered the shift that some brands have made towards creating shoes in shades of brown. The five-minute Sunday Spotlight segment, hosted by NBC’s Willie Geist and Morgan Radford,...