by Amy Brandt | Aug 7, 2017 | Company Life
If everyone in your ballet class has called out sick on October 5, there’s a perfectly good explanation: that’s when World Ballet Day LIVE is scheduled to return. In other words, 24 hours of binge-worthy behind-the-scenes footage featuring five of the...
by Julia Guiheen | Jun 28, 2017 | Profiles
The Royal Ballet principal Marianela Nuñez exudes femininity and strength. It’s no surprise, then, that her interpretation of the mythological huntress Sylvia, an independent, cunning young woman, is spot on. In this 2008 clip of the ballet choreographed...
by Nancy Wozny | Sep 6, 2016 | News
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2016 issue of Pointe. Carlos Acosta’s Carmen, a co-production with London’s Royal Ballet, Australia’s Queensland Ballet and Texas Ballet Theater, arrives in Dallas, September 16–18, and in...
by Caroline Seymour | Jul 20, 2016 | Company Life
Sylvie Guillem in Raymonda. Photo via Pinterest. Every year, a select few dancers join the Paris Opera Ballet. An even smaller percentage make world headlines like former étoile Sylvie Guillem, who joined the company in 1981 at age 16. Three years later, after...
by Caroline Seymour | Jul 6, 2016 | TBT
Updated 1/11/24. Bolstered by its eccentric characters, Coppélia has comic flare like no other ballet. In this 2009 rendition staged by Sergei Vikharev, Natalia Osipova, a then 23-year-old Bolshoi Ballet soloist, storms the stage in Swanhilda’s variation from...
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 Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | May 4, 2016 | News
Have a question? Send it to Pointe editor in chief and former dancer Amy Brandt at [email protected]. Royal Ballet artist in residence Liam Scarlett is noted for the psychological themes of his one-act ballets, like 2014’s The Age of Anxiety. On May 4, he...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Mar 14, 2016 | Company Life
What color is a flesh-toned technique shoe? Usually it’s a light tan, which doesn’t leave much wiggle room for dancers with darker skin. While it’s common for dancers to pancake their shoes to match their skin tone, the fact that...
