by Amy Brandt | Jul 11, 2017 | Profiles
Whitney Jensen likes to pack light. “I take the bare minimum,” says the Norwegian National Ballet dancer, who was a Boston Ballet principal until 2015. She often stores things in her dressing room, and it’s a good thing, too—her blue Freitag...
by Lucy Van Cleef | Apr 3, 2017 | Career, Company Life
When Holly Dorger arrived in Copenhagen to join the Royal Danish Ballet after graduating from the School of American Ballet, she was shocked by the unfamiliar. “We brought home cat food thinking it was canned tuna,” she laughs, recollecting her first weeks...
by Amy Brandt | Oct 25, 2016 | Company Life
Whitney Jensen made a surprising move in 2015 when she left her principal contract at Boston Ballet without plans to join a new company. Some feared she would quit dancing. Instead, Jensen, now 24, took time to reflect on her next move. In February, she signed on as a...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Although John Andresen is a dancer with the Norwegian National Ballet, his first love has always been photography. “I have been taking pictures longer than I have danced,” he says. “I wanted to go to a high school where I could study photography. My...
