by As Told To Amy Brandt | Mar 26, 2026 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles, The Latest
This Women’s History Month, we’re thinking about all of those in the ballet industry who have not only helped lay the groundwork for our art form, but have actively supported the next generation as teachers, role models, and friends. To celebrate, we asked dance...
by Gavin Larsen for Dance Magazine | May 2, 2025 | News, The Latest
With the passing of Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux on April 13, 2025, the ballet world lost a guide, an inspiration, a champion, and a “dance dad” to generations of students. Bonnefoux’s illustrious career began in his youth in his native France. He became an étoile with the...
by Julia Rosica | Dec 2, 2020 | Viral Videos
Updated 12/1/22. In this clip from 1964, former New York City Ballet principals Patricia McBride and Edward Villella perform a pas de deux as Marie and the Nutcracker Prince, choreographed by Kurt Jacob. The footage, from a made-for-TV Nutcracker movie that originally...
by Jordan Levin | Aug 26, 2018 | Career, Profiles
This summer the legendary New York City Ballet dancer Edward Villella marked two full-circle moments. He returned to Miami for the first time since his controversial 2012 departure from Miami City Ballet, the company he founded, to coach members of Dimensions Dance...
by Amy Brandt | Feb 6, 2018 | Profiles, Viral Videos
On Monday night, the National Dance Institute—the arts education organization founded by former New York City Ballet star Jacques d’Amboise—presented Balanchine’s Guys, a lively discussion with d’Amboise and two other NYCB greats: Arthur...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Dec 18, 2017 | Career, News
When Hope Muir was asked to apply to be Charlotte Ballet’s new artistic director, the Scottish Ballet assistant artistic director flew stateside to North Carolina for some sneaky reconnaissance. After scouting out the city and the company, Muir gathered it would...
by Marina Harss | Jul 16, 2017 | Career, Dance History
“The whole thing was—I like jewels,” the choreographer George Balanchine told an interviewer in the spring of 1967, when asked about his newest creation for New York City Ballet, a triptych called—what else?—Jewels. He had his photograph...
by Kathleen McGuire | Jul 11, 2017 | Summer Intensive Survival, Summer Study, Training
The summer I turned 16, my head swirled with “what ifs” as I counted down the days until the start of the Chautauqua intensive. I’d attended the program four years earlier, and the experience had been a harrowing one—my first lesson in the...
