by Hannah Chang Foster | May 4, 2016 | Company Life
Photo by Nobby Clark/Arena PAL via The Royal Opera House on Flickr. Sir Frederick Ashton created his 1980 ballet Rhapsody in honor of Elizabeth The Queen Mother (mother of Elizabeth II) for her 80th birthday. I’d say this serene, elegant pas de deux is fit for a...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Aug 26, 2015 | Company Life
Susan Jaffe was barely 19 years old when she leapt into the spotlight at American Ballet Theatre. 1982—the year that her Swan Lake debut had critics raving—also revealed her contemporary chops in works like Lynn Taylor-Corbett’s Great Galloping Gottschalk. In...
by Caitlin Sims | Dec 1, 2006 | Company Life, Features
In many fields, excellence can be measured. Tiger Woods is known as a great golfer because of his record of tournament wins. Warren Buffett is considered a great stock picker, because he’s made billions. A great ballet, however, isn’t quantifiable. A...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Julie Kent appears at the costume fitting for the dress she wears on the cover after a rehearsal for Jorma Elo’s new work for American Ballet Theatre. Her feet are killing her, so she slouches while she gets measured, but she’s pretty easygoing about the...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
If we saw Mikhail Baryshnikov dressed in a suit and chewing gum, we wouldn’t expect to be watching from the seats of a theater. But as he moves across the stage with his arms swaying in a confident swagger, he captures our attention as a different sort of...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
What does Baryshnikov wake up to every morning? Sketches of Ballets Russes legends Sergei Diaghalev and Vaslav Nijinsky drawn by French novelist Jean Cocteau in 1917. A colored pencil illustration of bugs and birds signed “To Misha with Love, Merce...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Of all the legendary dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov partnered during his career, Liza Minnelli is not the first one you think of. But check out this amazing 1980 clip of the two performing “Too Darn Hot” from Kiss Me Kate. Unfortunately, they aren’t...
