by Laura Cappelle | Sep 23, 2017 | Profiles
There was total silence by the end of English National Ballet’s first go at Pina Bausch’s raw Rite of Spring, and much of the performance’s success came down to a tiny dancer: Francesca Velicu. Handpicked to be The Chosen One, the Romanian corps...
by Lucy Van Cleef | Apr 3, 2017 | Career, Company Life
When Holly Dorger arrived in Copenhagen to join the Royal Danish Ballet after graduating from the School of American Ballet, she was shocked by the unfamiliar. “We brought home cat food thinking it was canned tuna,” she laughs, recollecting her first weeks...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Ballet and modern dance constantly steal from each other. The styles sometimes become so closely entwined that labeling a piece as just one or the other doesn’t even make sense. But there’s still so much more we could learn from one another. Watching Pina...
