by Lauren Warnecke | Sep 14, 2026 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Choreographer John Neumeier says his interest in “the outsider” is what draws him to dark stories—like Liliom, the 1909 play by Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár that inspired Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Carousel. Liliom was first imagined as a ballet by...
by Emily May | Jul 28, 2026 | News, Onstage, The Latest
“Age is a big deal in dance,” Nora Kimball tells Pointe on a call from her home in Frankfurt, Germany. The US-born dancer, now 69, has enjoyed an illustrious and varied career with companies ranging from American Ballet Theatre to Nederlands Dans Theater and William...
by Stephanie Kramer | Oct 26, 2022 | News, Profiles, The Latest
John Neumeier is celebrating his 50th anniversary as artistic director of the Hamburg Ballet. It’s a festive season—and one that was originally going to be his last. But last week the company announced that Neumeier will stay on another year to facilitate a smooth...
by Dance Magazine | Feb 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
Since her high-profile move from The Royal Ballet to English National Ballet in 2013, Romanian star Alina Cojocaru has been quietly forging her own path. In addition to creating major roles at ENB, including in Akram Khan’s Giselle, the beloved 38-year-old...
by Lauren Warnecke | Jan 15, 2019 | News, Profiles
You might say, “You just had to be there,” about the Joffrey Ballet’s 2017 world premiere of John Neumeier’s reimagined Orphée et Eurydice with the Lyric Opera of Chicago. But on January 18, audiences from around the country will have a...
by Anna Maples | Nov 4, 2018 | News
November 10–18 , the National Ballet of Canada presents the North American premiere of John Neumeier’s Anna Karenina at the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto. Co-produced with Hamburg Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet, NBoC is the last of the three companies to...
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 Hannah Chang Foster | Apr 4, 2018 | Profiles, TBT
Updated 11/8/22. Is there anything more heart-wrenching than a tale of doomed lovers? It’s no wonder that so many enduring ballets don’t end in happy embraces. John Neumeier’s modern Sylvia plumbs the depths of the story for its most melancholy...
