by Guillaume Côté As Told To Gavin Larsen | Aug 3, 2023 | Career, Company Life, Dream Role, Pointe+
Over the course of a dancer’s career, ballets come and go as fleetingly as the effervescent nature of dance itself. So it’s a precious thing when an artist gets to perform a particular role time and again, season after season, developing a relationship with it and...
by Gavin Larsen | Jan 10, 2023 | Onstage, The Latest
Xuan Cheng’s resumé is an impressive list of competitions, companies and roles. But beyond her laudable accomplishments is a tenacious dancer whose curiosity to see the world shaped a 22-year performance career that is, apparently, far from over. Cheng, born in...
by Catja Christensen | Dec 8, 2022 | Profiles
The 21st century has ushered in a wave of choreographic reimaginings of 18th- and 19th-century classical ballet stories. These new works reinterpret well-known narratives by infusing contemporary themes and choreographic styles while updating stories for today’s...
by Matthew Ball as told to Avichai Scher | Mar 23, 2022 | Profiles
Romeo has a special place in my heart. I made my debut in 2015, after I had just received my promotion to First Artist. It was the first big role that I got the opportunity to dance. The story of Romeo and Juliet is something I grew up with. I read the play at school...
by Lydia Murray | Jul 14, 2021 | Career, News, Profiles, The Latest
Last month, Bayerisches Staatsballett principal Osiel Gouneo performed as Romeo in Rudolf Nureyev’s production of Romeo and Juliet with the Paris Opéra Ballet, opposite étoile Valentine Colasante. Created in 1977, the ballet is known for its challenging,...
by Julia Guiheen | Sep 9, 2020 | TBT
Creating an authentic, youthful character onstage often requires an enormous amount of artistic maturity. Such is the case with former American Ballet Theatre principals Alessandra Ferri and Angel Corella. In this 2000 performance of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s...
by Julia Guiheen | May 13, 2020 | TBT
Marcia Haydée and Richard Cragun, one of ballet’s storied partnerships, danced together from the mid-1960s through the early ’90s as leading dancers of Stuttgart Ballet. Their repertory included dozens of ballets, most famously John Cranko’s The...
by Julia Guiheen | Nov 20, 2019 | Viral Videos
Carlos Acosta and Tamara Rojo both took The Royal Ballet by storm when they arrived at the company in 1998 and 2000, respectively. Virtuosic, enigmatic performers, the two forged a storied partnership over the course of their next decade together at The Royal. Now...