by Amy Brandt | Jun 17, 2022 | News, The Latest
It’s hard to believe that 22 years have gone by since Pointe first came into being. On June 11, we fulfilled a big dream of ours: to bring the ballet community together, in person, for a daylong event celebrating Pointe’s anniversary and our beloved artform. (Thanks...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jul 14, 2020 | Profiles, The Latest, Viral Videos
Have you ever wished you could pull back the curtain and watch some of our country’s most beloved ballerinas being coached? With the coronavirus pandemic keeping theaters closed for the foreseeable future, NYCC has moved its popular Studio 5...
by Jennifer Stahl For Dance Magazine | Mar 11, 2019 | Profiles
It was only a matter of time before dance super couple Sara Mearns and Joshua Bergasse did a major project together. After all, the newlyweds first met when Mearns, a New York City Ballet star, was being considered for a part on the TV show “Smash,” which...
by Amy Brandt | Feb 25, 2019 | Career
On a crisp day in late October, the studio air is thick and hot as dozens of sweaty dancers finish up grand allégro at New York City Center. Despite the fact that many of them are jet-lagged, there is a palpable, positive energy throughout the studio. Teaching class...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 25, 2018 | News
In 1948, George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein founded New York City Ballet at New York City Center. This year, in honor of its 75th anniversary, City Center is bringing together eight companies—American Ballet Theatre, The Joffrey Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet,...
by Amy Brandt | Oct 11, 2018 | News, Profiles
Kimin Kim may be a huge star in Russia, but he hasn’t forgotten his roots. The prodigious South Korean dancer, who became the Mariinsky Ballet’s first foreign principal in 2015, trained at the Korea National University of the Arts, also known as...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Sep 11, 2017 | News, Viral Videos
This fall, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures presents the U.S. premiere of a fresh take on an old classic. The Red Shoes, based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale and an Academy Award–winning film, tells the story of Victoria Page, a dancer obsessed...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Sep 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
New York City Ballet announced today that principal dancer Robert Fairchild will give his final performances with the company this October. Since his 2015 leave of absence to make his Broadway debut as Jerry Mulligan in Christopher Wheeldon’s An American in...