by Steve Sucato | Jan 30, 2024 | Career, Health & Body, Pointe+, Profiles
In December 2022, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre soloist Jessica McCann learned that her right hip was the equivalent to that of a 90-year-old’s. Bone spurs, calcium deposits, and a ready-to-rupture bone cyst could cause permanent damage, her doctors told her. Without a...
by Pointe Magazine | Jul 31, 2016 | Profiles
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2016 issue of Pointe. Every corps de ballet has a few bright standouts. Here are 10 young dancers on the rise. Norika Matsuyama in “Don Quixote.” Photo by Erik Tomasson, Courtesy SFB. Norika Matsuyama,...