by Caroline Hamilton | Dec 21, 2020 | Dance History, Instagram
The tutu has become the symbol of the ballerina. But what is the history of this strange protruding skirt which allegedly gets its name from the French children’s word cucu, meaning “bottom”? Pointe took a look back at some important moments in...
by Marina Harss | Jul 16, 2017 | Career, Dance History
“The whole thing was—I like jewels,” the choreographer George Balanchine told an interviewer in the spring of 1967, when asked about his newest creation for New York City Ballet, a triptych called—what else?—Jewels. He had his photograph...
by Caroline Hamilton | May 31, 2016 | Career
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2016 issue of Pointe. Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky is passionate about promoting the splendor of early Russian ballet and has, over the last few years, mounted a string of reinterpretations of iconic works. This June...