by Kyra Laubacher | Jul 13, 2020 | News, The Latest, Viral Videos
For the past three years, New York City Ballet dancers Emily Kikta and Peter Walker have created a series of site-specific dance films promoting the company’s annual summer residency at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Although this summer’s...
by Kyra Laubacher | Jul 6, 2020 | News, The Latest, Viral Videos
Earlier this month, Alonzo King LINES Ballet released the first in a series of five dance films, part of a new project entitled “There Is No Standing Still.” The series features company members spanning 10 cities and four continents dancing amid their...
by Lauren Wingenroth For Dance Teacher | Jun 2, 2020 | News, The Latest
*Update: The deadline to submit your dance-a-thon application has been extended to Tuesday, June 9 at midnight! By now, you’ve probably heard the good news: Debbie Allen is hosting a 12-hour digital dance-a-thon, and it’s going to be epic. (Plus, it will...
by Amy Brandt | May 14, 2020 | Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Dance Teacher, News, The Latest
Uodated 6/11/2020: Please note that some performances have been rescheduled. New dates updated below. How many of us have hovered breathlessly over our iPads, watching grainy YouTube footage of Gelsey Kirkland and Mikhail Baryshnikov in Theme and Variations? Or...
by Claudia Bauer | Apr 28, 2020 | Career, Profiles, The Latest
In a whirlwind 36 hours in mid-March, Royal Ballet principal dancer Lauren Cuthbertson performed Aurora in the Mariinsky Ballet’s production of The Sleeping Beauty, then returned to England and went into coronavirus lockdown in a house outside London. She told...
by Pointe Magazine | Mar 30, 2020 | News, Onstage
Updated on 9/9/2020 Since COVID-19 has forced ballet companies around the world to cancel performances—and even the remainder of their seasons—many are keeping their audiences engaged by streaming or posting pre-recorded performances onto their websites or...
by Amy Brandt | Feb 26, 2020 | News
Notice anything different about our site? Perhaps the bigger, splashier images and the fun new fonts? Welcome to the new pointemagazine.com! We just got a fabulous new redesign, and we can’t wait to share the results with you. Have a look around—our exclusive...
by Marissa DeSantis | Feb 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Three dancers share how they create (and sometimes fake) a stage-ready ballet bun for their hair type—whether it’s short and straight, coarse and curly, or somewhere in between. Curly Hair: Jasmine Perry, Los Angeles Ballet Jasmine Perry and Joshua Brown in The...