by Margaret Fuhrer | Mar 31, 2010 | Company Life
When Milwaukee Ballet’s Yuki Clark was a student in Japan, she had a typical bunhead reaction to her first modern class: suspicion. “I remember thinking, ‘Why am I doing this?’ ” she says. “I didn’t want to be a modern dancer, and I felt awkward and uncomfortable. I...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Jan 25, 2010 | Company Life
Clean classical line and a crisp allegro attack make Gary Jeter stand out as a dancer with Complexions Contemporary Ballet. But believe it or not, he didn’t begin studying ballet until he was a teenager, when he enrolled at Pebble Brook High School for the Performing...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 23, 2009 | Company Life
When she performs with Boston Ballet II, 20-year-old Rachel Cossar stands out for her spectacular extensions and her utter fearlessness. But few would guess that she owes both to an unlikely kind of training: Cossar was, until last year, a world-class rhythmic...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 22, 2009 | Company Life
As a first soloist with Houston Ballet, Kelly Myernick wows audiences with her icy Myrtha in Giselle and her regal Snow Queen in The Nutcracker. But she’s also a standout in the company’s contemporary ballets, thanks in part to her work with two...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 19, 2009 | Company Life
Kansas City Ballet’s Angelina Sansone has a flair for drama, so when former KCB member Keelan Whitmore asked her to spend summer breaks working with his offbeat Quixotic Performance Fusion ensemble, Sansone figured she’d be a natural fit. What she...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Jun 1, 2009 | Company Life
If you’ve only seen Robert Fairchild displaying his elegant line in Peter Martins’ Romeo + Juliet, you might never guess that he started out as a tap and jazz baby. But watch the New York City Ballet soloist tear through a wickedly off-balance solo in...
by Margaret Fuhrer | May 31, 2009 | Company Life
If you’ve only seen Robert Fairchild displaying his elegant line in Peter Martins’ Romeo + Juliet, you might never guess that he started out as a tap and jazz baby. But watch the New York City Ballet soloist tear through a wickedly off-balance solo in...
