by Chava Pearl Lansky | Sep 12, 2017 | Profiles
Last week you might have seen Instagram light up with photos of American Ballet Theatre’s James Whiteside and Boston Ballet’s Misa Kuranaga dancing a Beauty and the Beast pas de deux for Disney Japan in Tokyo. When we realized that Whiteside had also...
by Amy Brandt | Aug 20, 2017 | Profiles
A dancer’s dressing room is often her “home away from home.” In our August/September issue, we went backstage with three ballerinas, including Boston Ballet principal Lia Cirio. Below, she shows us how she personalizes her space and walks us through...
by Amy Brandt | Apr 11, 2017 | News
Hollywood may have the Oscars, but ballet has the Benois de la Danse. The glamorous awards ceremony, held each year at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, recognizes the year’s best dancers and choreographers around the globe. The 2017 nominees were announced...
by Amy Brandt | Feb 16, 2017 | Company Life
When Boston Ballet announced its partnership with choreographer William Forsythe last year, it named his full-length Artifact as its first new acquisition. Created in 1984, Artifact is considered by many to be Forsythe’s greatest masterpiece, yet it has never...
by Amy Brandt | Nov 23, 2014 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. Don Quixote’s Kitri is one of the feistiest characters in classical ballet. Nowhere is that more clear than in Don Q’s gregarious first act. After an exhausting series of...
by Ashley Rivers | Jul 18, 2012 | Features, Inside PT, Profiles
As Misa Kuranaga rounded an arabesque promenade during the energy-devouring third act pas in Don Quixote last spring, her tutu began to quiver. The audience held its breath, waiting. Kuranaga could have stepped down, could have held her partner Jeffrey Cirio’s...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
“Our next generation is coming in very strong,” says Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen, who recently promoted five company dancers to the rank of principal—Kathleen Breen Combes, Pavel Gurevich, Melissa Hough, Misa Kuranaga and James...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Boston Ballet principal Misa Kuranaga is one of the most inspiring dancers I’ve ever met. After losing her apprenticeship with San Francisco Ballet, instead of giving up, she begged the School of American Ballet to train her. She went back to school, back to the...