by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Jul 25, 2016 | Company Life
Bolshoi-trained dancers Anastasia Babayeva and Denis Gronostayskiy are the new co-principals of the Pennsylvania Ballet School. The former school director, beloved PAB ballerina Arantxa Ochoa, left in June to join Miami City Ballet School as director of faculty and...
by Lisa Kraus | Mar 31, 2016 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s April/May 2016 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. After Pennsylvania Ballet’s Mayara Pineiro and Arian Molina Soca run their Nutcracker pas de deux in rehearsal, ballet master Charles...
by Ellen Dunkel | Feb 29, 2016 | News
This story originally appeared in the February/March 2016 issue of Pointe. When Pennsylvania Ballet premieres artistic director Angel Corella’s Don Quixote on March 3 at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music, it will be the company’s first time performing...
by Madeline Schrock | Jul 31, 2014 | Cross-Training, Health & Body, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2014 issue of Pointe. It’s not uncommon for a dancer to be dedicated to her cross-training routine, but Pennsylvania Ballet corps member Holly Lynn Fusco goes the extra mile—or two. During layoffs and summer...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
There has been tremendous turnover at Pennsylvania Ballet in the last few months, starting in May with the resignation of long-time artistic director Roy Kaiser. Executive director Michael Scolamiero soon followed, moving on to Miami City Ballet. In July, the company...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
You probably remember filmmaker and former Miami City Ballet dancer Ezra Hurwitz’s mini-documentary In a Day’s Work: It trailed New York City Ballet principal Sara Mearns throughout her day, and gave viewers a sense of the mental and physical stamina...