by Julia Guiheen | Apr 29, 2020 | TBT
In this 2006 clip of Myrtha’s entrance in Giselle, former Paris Opéra Ballet étoile Marie-Agnès Gillot gives an other-worldly performance that is chilling, ethereal and technically sublime. Her footwork throughout the solo is mesmerizing, and it receives full...
by Julia Guiheen | Jun 5, 2019 | Profiles, TBT
Fairies crop up everywhere in classical ballet, from sylphs to dryads to, of course, the ranks of fairies who attend Aurora’s christening in The Sleeping Beauty. These delicate and mystical creatures stretch the reaches of ballet technique, forcing dancers to...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Apr 4, 2018 | Profiles, TBT
Updated 11/8/22. Is there anything more heart-wrenching than a tale of doomed lovers? It’s no wonder that so many enduring ballets don’t end in happy embraces. John Neumeier’s modern Sylvia plumbs the depths of the story for its most melancholy...
by Laura Cappelle | Mar 31, 2010 | Company Life
You are a choreographer as well as a dancer. What drew you to hip hop for Les Rares Différences, the piece you made for the 2007 Festival of Dance in Suresnes? My subject was Auguste Rodin. I needed bodies like sculptures—ballet dancers are too lean. Hip...
by Pointe Magazine | Dec 1, 2009 | Company Life
Dancer: Sarah Van Patten Company: San Francisco Ballet Ballet: Marius Petipa’s Swan Lake San Francisco Ballet principal Sarah Van Patten always commands the stage in roles that call for dramatic depth and musicality. But because she is not usually thought of as...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
After making a splash in Chicago and DC, Paris Opéra Ballet has set up camp in New York’s Lincoln Center for the next two weekends. Tonight, étoile Marie-Agnès Gillot performs the lead in Maurice Béjart’s Bolero. In Pointe’s April/May 2010 issue, we...