by Kyra Laubacher | Jun 23, 2020 | News, Profiles
Earlier this week, San Francisco Ballet released a statement that Mikhailovsky Ballet first soloist Julian MacKay will be joining the company as a principal dancer for its 2021 season. This news follows SFB’s announcement from April noting several company...
by Claudia Bauer | Jun 28, 2017 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Profiles
Julian MacKay was born to be a pioneer. Growing up amid bison and hot springs in Montana, he developed a sense of adventure that came in handy when, at age 11, he entered the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. “It was this guinea-pig experiment,” the...
by Laura Cappelle | May 28, 2015 | Dancer Spotlight, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2015 issue of Pointe. It may be a dancer’s dream to hit the headlines, but Angelina Vorontsova would rather forget the moment she did. Soon after the acid attack on Bolshoi Ballet director Sergei Filin, in January...
by Laura Cappelle | Sep 30, 2014 | News
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2014 issue of Pointe. This fall, the Mikhailovsky Ballet lands in the U.S. for the first time, performing at the David H. Koch Theater in New York City November 11–23, and at the Segerstrom Center for the...