by As Told To Zoe Phillips | Aug 4, 2021 | Career, Company Life
Mathilde Froustey has always wanted to be a mother. “I never saw myself just as a dancer,” says the San Francisco Ballet principal. “Backstage, onstage, even when I was getting ready for a show, I knew something was missing. And I knew what it was.”Now almost nine...
by Kathleen McGuire | Jun 1, 2020 | Career, Company Life
Jordan Nicole Tilton had always wanted to dance in Balanchine’s Apollo, and in her second year with Diablo Ballet she got her chance. But during dress rehearsal, she landed a sissonne wrong, sustaining a catastrophic ankle injury that required surgery and put...