by Nancy Wozny | Jan 23, 2020 | Career, Instagram, Profiles
Are you more of a Giselle or a Juliet? I’ve always said that my favorite role is Juliet, because of her vulnerability and maturity throughout the ballet. But now that I’ve performed Giselle, I find her so incredibly enjoyable, from being a village girl who...
by Madeline Schrock For Dance Magazine | Sep 5, 2019 | Profiles
When you hear names like Maria Kochetkova, Sutton Foster and Robbie Fairchild, you immediately picture flashes of them as the fully-formed, phenomenal performers they are today. But even when they were kids, they had a glimmer of their future star power, giving a...
by Madeline Schrock | Aug 26, 2018 | Just for fun
Let’s face it. Dancers just do things differently. We can never walk down a grocery aisle—we have to tap. We can never simply pick something up we’ve dropped—without going into a penché. But it’s not a bad thing. We love all the ways that dance...
by Madeline Schrock | Aug 26, 2018 | Just for fun
Let’s face it. Dancers just do things differently. We can never walk down a grocery aisle—we have to tap. We can never simply pick something up we’ve dropped—without going into a penché. But it’s not a bad thing. We love all the ways that dance...
by Julie Diana Hench | Sep 18, 2017 | Dream Role, Profiles, Technique
As told to Julie Diana Juliet is one of my favorite roles—you go through every emotion in just three acts. I had done different versions of the ballet before, but it was an amazing opportunity when my director Stanton Welch created the role for me. I watched a...
by Amy Brandt | Jul 31, 2017 | Career
Between book deals and Under Armour endorsements, her own Barbie doll and a spot at the judges table on NBC’s “World of Dance,” Misty Copeland has been one of the few ballerinas to break into mainstream pop culture. Now she’s conquering the...
by Jacquelyn Long | Jun 26, 2016 | Company Life
Jacquelyn Long, Photo by Amitava Sarkar, Courtesy Houston Ballet. From June 24–July 10, Houston Ballet is embarking on its biggest tour yet to Melbourne, Australia, hometown of artistic director Stanton Welch. Pointe asked demi-soloist Jacquelyn Long to keep a...
by Pointe Magazine | Nov 20, 2013 | Company Life
Olga Smirnova Expectations can be a heavy burden to bear for a young dancer on the fast track to stardom. Few have justified the hype like the Bolshoi Ballet’s 21-year-old Olga Smirnova. The Vaganova-trained first soloist had an international coming out party to...