by Amy Brandt | Apr 15, 2018 | News, Profiles
San Francisco Ballet announced this morning that principal dancer Maria Kochetkova will leave the company at the the end of the 2017–18 season. Her final performance date has not yet been announced, but it will be sometime during the company’s Unbound...
by Marissa DeSantis | Oct 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
If you’ll be in the Chicago area next month, the historic Auditorium Theatre is putting together a one-night-only performance you don’t want to miss. The event is in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the theater’s reopening in 1967, which...
by Madeline Schrock | Jun 15, 2017 | Profiles
While we know you practically live in your leos and tights (and a tightly wound bun), summer is the perfect time to literally let your hair down and show off your style outside the studio. Not sure where to start? Take a page from these pro dancers’ ensembles....
by Hannah Foster | Jul 10, 2016 | Company Life
For this #MotivationMonday, we mined the “Reverence” section of Pointe’s back issues. Read on for inspiration from some of your favorite dancers. This years-old advice is timeless! Photo by Jack Devant via JackDevant.com. “Being a professional...
by Amy Brandt | Nov 24, 2015 | Profiles
This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. Maria Kochetkova has a voracious appetite for inspiration. A principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet since 2007, she spent the last few years guesting with American Ballet Theatre...
by Hannah Foster | Nov 1, 2015 | Company Life
“And I stood and was silent. And he was silent. And I stood, silent. And he was silent.” Maria sporting the words of Daniil Kharms. Photo courtesy of Koche-Kova. Jumping on a couch and tossing what appear to be birthday bows, Maria Kochetkova appears in...
by Amy Brandt | Sep 8, 2015 | Company Life
San Francisco Ballet principals Maria Kochetkova and Davit Karapetyan in Romeo & Juliet, Courtesy The Anderson Group If you’ve been dying to see San Francisco Ballet but, like me, live nowhere near the Bay Area, be sure to mark your calendars for...
by Amy Brandt | Aug 25, 2015 | Company Life
Some of ballet’s biggest stars have donated signed pointe shoes to raise money for victims of last April’s horrific earthquake in Nepal. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake killed over 9,000 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. And while the disaster...