by Madeline Schrock | Jun 27, 2017 | Training
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8pgdK5piuCc Ballet is a global art form, with top dancers hailing from around the world. Wherever you go, a plié is a plié, regardless of the language spoken. Still, it’s not everyday that you hear about a classical...
by Caroline Seymour | Jul 13, 2016 | Company Life
Ballet is nothing without technique, but when a performance is accompanied by nothing more than that, it loses its allure. Not so in this 1983 clip of American Ballet Theatre’s Cynthia Harvey in Don Quixote. Here, she’s a breath of fresh air, striking the...
by Ashley Rivers | Nov 20, 2014 | Summer Study, Training
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. When 17-year-old Rock School student Sarah Lapointe was auditioning for summer intensives, she faced a dilemma. By mid-January, she’d been accepted to a great school. But she...
by Harris Green | Jan 25, 2010 | Company Life
Alison Stroming’s teachers invariably describe her as “modest”—while recounting accomplishments that give her every reason to have an ego. Shrinking violets aren’t cast, as Stroming was last April, as one of the three shades in the “Kingdom of the Shades” excerpt from...
by Jennifer Stahl | Nov 23, 2009 | Company Life
When American Ballet Theatre offered Katherine Williams a place in its corps, she had no idea how big a transition lay ahead. Williams’ long line, liquid-smooth control and elegant port de bras had helped her advance quickly from student at the Jacqueline...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School has come a long way in the short decade since it was founded. So far, in fact, that it’s part of a select group of schools invited to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as part of the...