by Josephine Lee | Jul 24, 2019 | Profiles, Viral Videos
Master pointe shoe fitter Josephine Lee of the California-based The Pointe Shop chats with Oklahoma City Ballet dancer Amy Potter to hear about how she prepares her pointe shoes. Plus, hear all of Potter’s tips and tricks on how she makes her boxes last...
by Josephine Lee | Oct 15, 2018 | Profiles, Training, Viral Videos
Earlier this summer, we followed master pointe shoe fitter Josephine Lee of the California-based The Pointe Shop as she made her on a pointe shoe fitting tour around the West Coast and California. Now she’s back, this time on a 45-day tour from California to...
by Nancy Wozny | Feb 23, 2017 | Career, Profiles
In her first season as a corps member with Oklahoma City Ballet, Devin Larsen stood among the 17 dancers who made the audience gasp as the curtain came up on Balanchine’s Serenade. But her path to getting there would make anyone gasp. At age 3, Larsen was...
by Hannah Foster | Jan 27, 2016 | Company Life
Yvonne Chouteau, former ballerina with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and one of Oklahoma City Ballet’s founding artistic directors, died on Sunday at 86 years old. Chouteau was one of the “Five Moons,” five Native American ballerinas from Oklahoma who...
by Christopher Blank | Sep 30, 2015 | Career, Company Life, Director's Notes
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2015 issue of Pointe. Some might call it bravado. Others would say fightin’ spirit. When Robert Mills grabbed the reins of a struggling Ballet Oklahoma in 2008, the company was at a crossroads: To sink under...