by Natalia Boesch | Feb 22, 2017 | Career, Profiles
You’re celebrating 25 years with the National Ballet of Canada. What makes it home? I wanted to join the National Ballet because it had one of the best repertoires in the world. We do all the staples of the classical canon and yet get to work with amazing...
by Laura Cappelle | Nov 21, 2016 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
Staatsballett Berlin principal Iana Salenko talks to us about guestings, salsa music and her knack for design. What are you most proud of in your career? I’m a tiny dancer, so to dance roles for tall ballerinas I would never have dreamed about, like Swan...
by Natalia Boesch | Oct 12, 2016 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2016 issue of Pointe. Why did you make the move from Dance Theatre of Harlem to The Washington Ballet? I had been at DTH for 13 years, and I wanted to see what else was out there. I felt like it was time for me to...
by Pointe Magazine | Oct 1, 2016 | Company Life
Do you prefer the consistency of doing the same show eight times a week or the variety of mixed rep? I like both. I’m a creature of habit, so I completely took to the Broadway lifestyle. What’s nice about it is that you know your show: you know the little...
by Natalia Boesch | Jul 31, 2016 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2016 issue of Pointe. You took a year off to perform on Broadway as Ivy Smith in On the Town. What did you learn from that experience? If I’m not being classical I can be kind of a goofy dancer, so it was a...
by Laura Cappelle | May 31, 2016 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
You’ve been a muse to Liam Scarlett. What’s your relationship like? I owe him a rebirth. He completely gets me as a dancer. In a place where I’ve sometimes felt I was too different, he made me fit. His work took me back to all the training at The...
by Natalia Boesch | Mar 31, 2016 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2016 issue of Pointe. You’ve been at the Joffrey Ballet for your whole career. What do you love about the company? When I joined, at 16, I was drawn to their repertoire. We were doing John Cranko’s Romeo and...
by Marina Harss | Jan 27, 2016 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. Why did you return to Uruguay and join the Ballet Nacional Sodre, after being at American Ballet Theatre for nearly 14 years? I’d been a soloist for 10 years and had danced a lot...