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Victor Caixeta Makes New Strides at Dutch National Ballet

Victor Caixeta Makes New Strides at Dutch National Ballet

by Laura Cappelle | Nov 2, 2023 | Digital Cover Star, Pointe+

On March 5, 2022, Victor Caixeta was supposed to dance Don Quixote on a stage that had come to feel like home: that of Russia’s Mariinsky Theatre, in St. Petersburg. Instead, the 24-year-old from Brazil found himself in a minivan on the road to Tallinn, Estonia, with...
Bolshoi Star Olga Smirnova Leaves Moscow for Dutch National Ballet

Bolshoi Star Olga Smirnova Leaves Moscow for Dutch National Ballet

by Amy Brandt | Mar 16, 2022 | The Latest

The Dutch National Ballet announced today that Olga Smirnova, a star dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, will be joining the Amsterdam-based company as a principal, effective immediately. Victor Caixeta, a Brazilian-born soloist with the Mariinsky Ballet, will also be...
#TBT: Maria Alexandrova, Maria Allash and Yevgeny Ivanchenko in "Swan Lake"

#TBT: Maria Alexandrova, Maria Allash and Yevgeny Ivanchenko in "Swan Lake"

by Julia Guiheen | Mar 3, 2021 | Viral Videos

While not nearly as common as the pas de deux, the pas de trois is a frequent feature in classical ballets that poses its own unique challenges. The seamless braiding of three dancers, in which all can equally shine, is no easy feat. In this clip from 2002, the...
Meet Misha Barkidjija, the 18-Year-Old American Dancing with Russia's Mariinsky Ballet

Meet Misha Barkidjija, the 18-Year-Old American Dancing with Russia's Mariinsky Ballet

by Oksana Khadarina | Dec 27, 2020 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Instagram

What does it take for an American to graduate from the Vaganova Ballet Academy at the top of the class—and join the Mariinsky Ballet at the age of 17? And how would it feel to then be sidelined by injury, and miss an entire season of professional dancing, just...
#TBT: Polina Semionova and Vladimir Shklyarov in “Giselle” (2008)

#TBT: Polina Semionova and Vladimir Shklyarov in “Giselle” (2008)

by Julia Guiheen | Nov 11, 2020 | TBT

Polina Semionova, principal guest artist with the Staatsballett Berlin, is serene and luminous. Mariinsky Ballet principal Vladimir Shklyarov is stylish and refined. Together, unsurprisingly, they make a sublime partnership, as seen here in their wistful and...
Inside Christine Shevchenko's Travels to St. Petersburg for One-on-One Giselle Coaching

Inside Christine Shevchenko's Travels to St. Petersburg for One-on-One Giselle Coaching

by Marina Harss | May 12, 2020 | Career, Instagram, Profiles

In November, American Ballet Theatre principal Christine Shevchenko traveled to St. Petersburg to work with one of the coaches at the Mariinsky Ballet, Margarita Kullik. It was her fourth time working with Kullik, who in the 1980s and ’90s was a leading dancer...
The Mariinsky's Next Generation: Meet 4 of The Company's Rising Young Stars

The Mariinsky's Next Generation: Meet 4 of The Company's Rising Young Stars

by Amy Brandt | Apr 20, 2020 | Career, Instagram, Profiles

On the Mariinsky Ballet’s tour to the U.S. last fall, audiences clamored to see long established stars like Ekaterina Kondaurova, Kimin Kim, Viktoria Tereshkina and Vladimir Shklyarov. But it was also an opportunity to catch an exciting group of young protégés...
#TBT: Evgenia Obraztsova in “The Awakening of Flora” (2008)

#TBT: Evgenia Obraztsova in “The Awakening of Flora” (2008)

by Julia Guiheen | Feb 19, 2020 | Viral Videos

Earlier this month, 15-year-old American dancer Ava Arbuckle was one of eight scholarship winners at the Prix de Lausanne. For her classical selection, Arbukle, clad in an ultra-feminine, rosette-covered tutu, performed Flora’s variation from The Awakening of...
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