by Gavin Larsen | Aug 12, 2020 | Company Life
Landing a spot as a second company member or trainee is thrilling—your dream is starting to come true! While you’ll still be training intensely, you’ll also have opportunities to perform in company productions and take company class. But the newness...
by Hannah Foster | Feb 10, 2019 | Audition Advice, Career
Let’s face it: Auditioning is expensive. Between a $100-per-night budget-hotel room, a $300 round-trip plane ticket, $40 for food per day and $25 to $40 in audition fees, you may be out hundreds of dollars for one audition—and potentially thousands before...
by Amy Brandt | Jul 15, 2018 | Career, Company Life
For the members of Boston Ballet II, Thursday mornings are a special treat. At 9 am, well before the company arrives, they begin their own class with BBII associate director Peter Stark. It’s their chance to talk through corrections and dig into the details of...
by Amy Brandt | Jun 19, 2017 | Training
Some may consider New York’s Symphony Space a smaller theater, but big things were happening inside June 6–10. Just under 200 young dancers from all over the world were testing their luck at the Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition in hopes...
by Pointe Magazine | Nov 22, 2016 | Training
This story originally appeared in the December 2016/January 2017 issue of Pointe. As told to Madeline Schrock and Nancy Wozny We asked five frequent judges for their advice, their pet peeves and their approach to the scoring process. Peter Stark Head of the...
by Katie Rolnick | Apr 2, 2015 | Technique, Training
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2015 issue of Pointe. Growing up, Houston Ballet soloist Allison Miller often heard teachers compare the feeling you have during pirouettes to a corkscrew. But then her teacher, Diane Partington in Ellenton, Florida,...
by Pointe Magazine | Sep 28, 2010 | Company Life
A Prima’s New Role Coming full circle, Chan Hon Goh recently became director of Goh Ballet Academy, the Vancouver school run by her parents where she trained. The former National Ballet of Canada principal will keep the ballet syllabus intact, but has...