by Hannah Foster | Jun 30, 2016 | Company Life
Well, that was fast. After less than a year, Jeffrey Cirio — the former Boston Ballet principal who joined American Ballet Theatre as a soloist at the start of this season—is walking into summer with a promotion to ABT’s highest rank. The company now...
by Amy Brandt | Feb 25, 2016 | Company Life
Joffrey Studio Company dancers in Stephanie Martinez’s Non è Normale. Photo by Cheryl Mann, Courtesy Joffrey Ballet. A few weeks ago, American Ballet Theatre soloist Jeffrey Cirio made an extended trip to Chicago to hone his choreographic chops. His...
by Candice Thompson | Jan 27, 2016 | Career, Company Life
This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. When Sarah Walborn first joined San Francisco Ballet as an apprentice, the excitement of joining her dream company soon gave way to dread. “I would go into work every day with fear...
by Amy Brandt | Jun 29, 2015 | Company Life
Today, American Ballet Theatre announced that longtime company soloists Misty Copeland and Stella Abrera have been promoted to principal dancer. San Francisco Ballet star Maria Kochetkova and Royal Danish Ballet principal Alban Lendorf will also join ABT next season...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Apr 7, 2015 | News, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2015 issue of Pointe. Jeffrey Cirio is a busy guy. In addition to his career as a principal dancer at Boston Ballet, he’s an emerging choreographer who also manages his own dance troupe: Cirio Collective. In May,...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
The sixth Helsinki International Ballet Competition, held this June in Finland, was something of a guy’s show. The most notable of the 70 competitors, who performed over the course of seven evenings in the beautiful Finnish National Opera House, were all men:...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
This week, Boston Ballet hosts its first-ever Choreographic Intensive in Marblehead, MA. Student Leah Hirsch will be blogging daily from the Intensive for Pointe. Read Leah’s first entries here, here and here, and stay tuned for more! Dancing and writing...