by Kyra Laubacher | Jun 23, 2020 | News, Profiles
Earlier this week, San Francisco Ballet released a statement that Mikhailovsky Ballet first soloist Julian MacKay will be joining the company as a principal dancer for its 2021 season. This news follows SFB’s announcement from April noting several company...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 5, 2019 | Dance Spirit, Profiles
When American Ballet Theatre soloist Skylar Brandt’s phone lit up with a message from Julian MacKay last summer, she never could have imagined the journey it would set her on. Brandt barely knew the Mikhailovsky Ballet first soloist—they’d met briefly in...
by Laura Cappelle | Feb 19, 2018 | Career, Company Life
Ella Persson remembers the rehearsals for her debut as Giselle. “I was in my first year with the company, and I started preparing with Mikhail Messerer during late evenings,” the Mikhailovsky Ballet’s Swedish-born coryphée says. “I was...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Nov 14, 2017 | Profiles, Trending
You’re probably already following your favorite dancers on Instagram, but did you know that you can follow many of their dogs, too? We rounded up some of our favorite dog-centered accounts and hashtags to keep you pawsitively entertained (sorry, we can’t...
by Claudia Bauer | Jun 28, 2017 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Profiles
Julian MacKay was born to be a pioneer. Growing up amid bison and hot springs in Montana, he developed a sense of adventure that came in handy when, at age 11, he entered the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. “It was this guinea-pig experiment,” the...