by Chava Pearl Lansky | Aug 25, 2019 | Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Dance Teacher, Instagram, News
At 6:30 this morning, I exited the subway in Times Square and walked towards the group of dancers gathered outside the “Good Morning America” studios. The moment I entered the fray, any lingering early morning grogginess disappeared; the energy in the...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jul 18, 2019 | News, Profiles, Trending, Viral Videos
What do you get when you add Royal Ballet principal Francesca Hayward, Taylor Swift, Hamilton choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, CGI fur technology, giant sets and unitards galore? The answer is the new CATS film, scheduled for major release December 20, 2019. The...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jul 10, 2018 | News
An American in Paris , the wildly popular musical directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, comes to movie theaters nationwide September 20 and 23. Filmed in London in 2017, this version features the show’s original stars: former New York City Ballet...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Sep 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
New York City Ballet announced today that principal dancer Robert Fairchild will give his final performances with the company this October. Since his 2015 leave of absence to make his Broadway debut as Jerry Mulligan in Christopher Wheeldon’s An American in...
by Amy Brandt | Mar 31, 2015 | Profiles, Show and Tell
This story originally appeared in the June/July 2015 issue of Pointe. Ever wonder what life is like as a ballerina on Broadway? Just peek inside Leanne Cope’s dance bag. Cope, who stars as Lise in Christopher Wheeldon’s production of An American in Paris,...
by Hanna Rubin | Jul 29, 2014 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2014 issue of Pointe. Growing up together, first as students at the School of American Ballet and then as young dancers on the rise at New York City Ballet, Tiler Peck and Robert Fairchild dated off and on. With...
by Harris Green | Jan 18, 2011 | Company Life
Daylight saving time had been in effect only a few hours last November when New York City Ballet principal Sterling Hyltin entered an NYCB rehearsal studio to recapture history. In Classroom 2 on the seventh floor, the clock had been turned back to 1968, when NYCB...