by Joseph Carman | Jan 7, 2025 | News, The Latest
When choreographer John Cranko arrived in Stuttgart in 1961, few suspected that the “Stuttgart Ballet miracle,” as people call the company’s era under his direction, was preparing for a grand entrance on the world stage. A new German-language biopic, John Cranko...
by Julia Rosica | May 13, 2020 | TBT
Marcia Haydée and Richard Cragun, one of ballet’s storied partnerships, danced together from the mid-1960s through the early ’90s as leading dancers of Stuttgart Ballet. Their repertory included dozens of ballets, most famously John Cranko’s The...
by Hugo Marchand As Told To Laura Cappelle | Jan 20, 2019 | Profiles, Technique
Onegin isn’t a regular ballet character: He’s neither good nor bad, but gray, in between. I started by reading Alexander Pushkin’s verse poem, and I found it difficult. It portrays an emotional state that is very Russian: This existential melancholy...
by Courtney Escoyne | Oct 25, 2018 | Just for fun
When American Ballet Theatre announced yesterday that it would be adding Jane Eyre to its stable of narrative full-lengths, the English nerds in the DM offices (read: most of us) got pretty excited. Cathy Marston’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic...
by Amy Brandt | Jul 9, 2018 | News
Stuttgart Ballet artistic director Reid Anderson will be the first to admit that his company loves a good party. “We celebrate quite a lot here,” he says. Indeed, there’s much to celebrate this week in the industrial German city famous for Porsche...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 12, 2018 | Career, News, Profiles, Viral Videos
Valentine’s Day makes February the perfect month for ballet companies to perform Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s famous tale of star-crossed lovers. A few companies presented their versions earlier this month and many are on their way in the next few...
by Amy Brandt | May 31, 2016 | Career, Profiles, Technique
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2016 issue of Pointe. Anaïs Chalendard as told to Amy Brandt Tatiana is not simply a young, hopeful country girl. She’s dark and complex—she’s an introvert. I was also misunderstood when I was younger. Like...