by Kyra Laubacher | Oct 10, 2024 | News, The Latest
The past few weeks have brought another exciting round of dancer career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in this month’s ballet roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments At Stuttgart Ballet, Henrik Erikson and Gabriel Figueredo...
by Kyra Laubacher | Jan 12, 2024 | News, The Latest
Bunheads, grab your popcorn. On Sunday, January 21, Dutch National Ballet will present a special screening of Giselle at hundreds of movie theaters across the country, with select encore presentations on January 24. The film will star principals Olga Smirnova and...
by Kyra Laubacher | Jan 10, 2023 | News, The Latest
This month has brought another exciting round of career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions and more in this month’s roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments On December 12, the National Ukrainian Ballet (Kyiv Ballet) appointed Nobuhiro...
by Kyra Laubacher | Dec 9, 2022 | News, The Latest
This month has brought another exciting round of career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions and more in this month’s roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments Former longtime principal dancer Victoria Hulland has returned to The Sarasota...
by Amy Brandt | Mar 16, 2022 | The Latest
The Dutch National Ballet announced today that Olga Smirnova, a star dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, will be joining the Amsterdam-based company as a principal, effective immediately. Victor Caixeta, a Brazilian-born soloist with the Mariinsky Ballet, will also be...
by Laura Cappelle | Jul 23, 2020 | Career, Instagram, Profiles
Like most theaters, the Bolshoi was shut down due to the coronavirus. What are your strategies for coping mentally in self-isolation? It didn’t occur to me that it would take this long. In a way, it has been a unique chance to try new things. Each day, I can...
by Amy Brandt | Jan 9, 2020 | News
Bolshoi fans, listen up: On Sunday, January 26, the company will broadcast Alexei Ratmansky’s new production of Giselle—captured from a live performance in Moscow earlier that day—to over 450 North American movie theaters as part of its Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema...
by Julia Guiheen | Sep 18, 2019 | Profiles, TBT
What do Diana Vishneva, Olga Smirnova, Kristina Shapran and Maria Khoreva all have in common? These women, among the most impressive talents to graduate from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in recent years, all studied under legendary professor Lyudmila Kovaleva....