by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 5, 2018 | Career, News
This spring, Milwaukee Ballet and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre are each putting on programs composed entirely of choreography by company dancers. February 8 marks the premiere of Milwaukee Ballet’s MXE Milwaukee Mixed, featuring pieces by Garrett Glassman, Timothy...
by Marissa DeSantis | Nov 16, 2017 | Everything Nutcracker
Catching a performance of The Nutcracker has long been a holiday tradition for many families. And now, more and more companies are adding sensory-friendly elements to specific shows in an effort to make the classic ballet inclusive to children and adults with special...
by Steve Sucato | Sep 21, 2017 | Profiles
Rising lazily from an armchair, shrugging her shoulders and limply snapping her arms side to side, Alana Griffith imbued the title role in Septime Webre’s ALICE (in wonderland) with the unmistakable boredom and longing of youth. Throughout the performance, her...
by Suzannah Friscia | Jun 25, 2017 | Career, Company Life
Alaina Andersen, as told to Suzannah Friscia I got my corps contract on my 18th birthday. It was such a relief. I had convinced myself that I would be okay not dancing, but inside I just wanted to get a contract with Miami City Ballet. I’d trained at Milwaukee...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Jun 19, 2017 | Career, Company Life
Being in the corps can be pretty unforgiving. You dance in nearly every performance, it sometimes feels like you’re only onstage to add to the scenery, and you’re expected to fit in—while still vying for soloist roles. It’s enough to make even...
by Pointe Magazine | Feb 16, 2016 | Company Life
O’Donnell as Dorian Gray. Photo by Nathaniel Davauer, Courtesy Milwaukee Ballet. Milwaukee Ballet artistic director Michael Pink’s imaginative versions of narratives-turned-ballets have garnered him a second title: master storyteller. His latest...
by Jennifer Stahl | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
For much of dance history, male dancers were basically the forklifts of ballet, there to lift the women, and do little else. But it takes much more than a sturdy set of biceps to hack it in 2013. Today’s men are given some of the most exciting choreography in...