by Marisa C. Hayes | Nov 26, 2019 | Career, News
Dancing with the Paris Opéra Ballet normally entails performing to sold out crowds and admirers from around the world. But imagine dancers attempting to give their best performance in an opera house that’s eerily quiet and closed to the public....
by Marisa C. Hayes | Nov 20, 2019 | Instagram, Training, Trending
As a little girl, Hortense Millet-Maurin fell in love with the wide spiral staircase that dominates the center of the Paris Opéra Ballet School. Today, as a focused 15-year-old POB student, she and her classmate Vincent Vivet navigate the school’s...
by Julia Rosica | Nov 6, 2019 | TBT
Noëlla Pontois, the striking, lithe and fiercely technical former étoile of the Paris Opera Ballet, was renown for her interpretation of aristocratic roles in 19th-century ballets. In this 1983 performance from Rudolf Nureyev’s production of Raymonda, Pontois is...
by Amy Brandt | Jul 10, 2019 | Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Dance Teacher, News, Trending, Viral Videos
Just imagine: you’re settling in for a long international flight, when suddenly Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake starts playing on the intercom—and a group of feather-clad ballerinas bourrée down the aisle. That’s exactly what happened last week to Air France...
by Julia Rosica | Jun 5, 2019 | Profiles, TBT
Fairies crop up everywhere in classical ballet, from sylphs to dryads to, of course, the ranks of fairies who attend Aurora’s christening in The Sleeping Beauty. These delicate and mystical creatures stretch the reaches of ballet technique, forcing dancers to...
by Julia Rosica | May 1, 2019 | Profiles, Viral Videos
From the outside, classical ballet can seem restrictive with its decorum, elaborate costumes and, of course, uncomfortable pointe shoes. Yet as ballet dancers we know that our technique actually allows our bodies to move with incredible freedom. That physical freedom...
by Hugo Marchand As Told To Laura Cappelle | Jan 20, 2019 | Profiles, Technique
Onegin isn’t a regular ballet character: He’s neither good nor bad, but gray, in between. I started by reading Alexander Pushkin’s verse poem, and I found it difficult. It portrays an emotional state that is very Russian: This existential melancholy...
by Marisa Hayes For Dance Magazine | Jan 13, 2019 | News, Profiles, Trending
Sergei Polunin, whose recent homophobic and sexist Instagram posts have sparked international outrage, will not be appearing with the Paris Opéra Ballet as previously announced. POB artistic director Aurélie Dupont sent an internal email to company staff and dancers...