by Laura Cappelle | Jul 31, 2016 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s August/September 2016 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. What a difference four years have made for Hannah O’Neill. In 2012, as a foreign dancer on a temporary corps contract with the...
by Caroline Seymour | Jul 20, 2016 | Company Life
Sylvie Guillem in Raymonda. Photo via Pinterest. Every year, a select few dancers join the Paris Opera Ballet. An even smaller percentage make world headlines like former étoile Sylvie Guillem, who joined the company in 1981 at age 16. Three years later, after...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Jul 18, 2016 | Company Life
Benjamin Millepied, who briefly helmed the Paris Opéra Ballet, finished his duties with the company on July 15. He will return to L.A. to focus his energy on his contemporary dance company, L.A. Dance Project, which has its Joyce Theater debut this month....
by Hannah Chang Foster | Jun 8, 2016 | Company Life
The coda in Swan Lake’s second act can be brutal for the ballerina dancing Odette. She barely has time to catch her breath after her variation before coming back onstage to carry the act’s final dramatic minutes. Paris Opéra Ballet étoile Dorothée Gilbert...
by Laura Cappelle | May 31, 2016 | News
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2016 issue of Pointe. The Paris Opéra Ballet is gearing up for another transition. This summer, Benjamin Millepied will hand over the reins of the company to former étoile Aurélie Dupont, who was...
by Hannah Chang Foster | May 18, 2016 | Company Life
Photo via the Bolshoi Theatre. With its glitz, glamour and funny statues, the Benois de la Danse has a lot in common with the awards show it’s often compared to: the Oscars. While we’re all for gowns and red carpets, we prefer tutus and opera...
by Amy Brandt | May 10, 2016 | Company Life
Kathleen Breen Combes and Bo Busby in Forsythe’s Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude. Photo by Gene Schiavone, Courtesy Boston Ballet. If you ask most dancers whose work they hope to perform, William Forsythe is usually at the top of the list. (How many of us have...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Apr 20, 2016 | Company Life
I can’t decide what’s more impressive in this 1996 clip of Roland Petit’s Notre Dame de Paris. Is it the Frenchman’s choreography, which evokes the complex relationship between the gypsy-turned-damsel and her unlikely hero? Or is it the two...