by Leila Lois | Jul 31, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
Amber Scott has been a principal artist at The Australian Ballet since 2011. Her career highlights include dancing Odette/Odile with Adam Bull in Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake and partnering with guest artists David Hallberg, Robert Tewsley, and Damian Smith. She’s also a...
by Nancy Wozny | Jul 11, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
In June, Houston Ballet’s newest principal, Beckanne Sisk, closed the 2022–23 season with an outstanding performance of Odette/Odile in Stanton Welch’s Swan Lake. With her old-world glamour, polished technique, and dynamic attack, Sisk has brought welcome dazzle to...
by Emma Love Suddarth | Jun 20, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
An engaging powerhouse, Boston Ballet principal Chyrstyn Mariah Fentroy is always looking for ways to dig deeper in her work. She brings the same passion for investigation to the role of Kitri as she does to William Forsythe ballets—demonstrating her point that with...
by Emma Love Suddarth | May 17, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
Dutch National Ballet principal Constantine Allen is a storyteller at heart. The American dancer, who grew up in Hawaii and began his career at Stuttgart Ballet, finds his own voice in roles like Armand, Siegfried, or Albrecht, but also stands out in neoclassical...
by Marina Harss | Apr 3, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
Danielle Brown joined The Sarasota Ballet in 2007, the year its then-new director, Iain Webb, took the reins. She became a principal three years later, and in the time since, has performed a vast array of roles, from Giselle to a showgirl in Balanchine’s Western...
by Pointe Magazine | Feb 23, 2023 | Black History Month, Pointe+, Videos
We recently had the pleasure of speaking with two groundbreaking artists and colleagues: Lauren Anderson, Houston Ballet’s first Black principal ballerina (and current Houston Ballet Academy associate director of Education and Community Engagement), and Harper...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 16, 2023 | Career, News, Pointe+
James Whiteside is a consummate multi-hyphenate. The American Ballet Theatre principal is also a choreographer, author, singer and drag queen. And now, Whiteside is back on the air waves with a new podcast, “Front Row.” The show, out every Wednesday and available on...
by Linnea Swarting | Jan 4, 2023 | Career, Pointe+, Profiles
If you have seen Skylar Brandt perform, or taken a glance at her social media, you know that she is a force of nature—her technical power is only surpassed by her unyielding love of ballet. But many Brandt fans might be surprised to learn that the American Ballet...