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...
by Laura Cappelle | Jan 28, 2016 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s February/March 2016 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. Last September, as one of The Royal Ballet’s coaches walked her through the potion scene from Romeo and Juliet, Francesca...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Jan 6, 2016 | Company Life
Zenaida Yanowsky in Will Tuckett’s Elizabeth (photo by Ilaria Martello) There are tutus. And then there’s everything else. How do you design period costumes that are 1) recognizable to the audience and 2) possible to dance in? For The Royal Ballet’s...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Oct 12, 2015 | Company Life
(Eloise Smith, stockroom assistant in the costume department at the Royal Opera House, photo by Ruairi Watson) The Royal Opera House, home of The Royal Ballet, has launched a new university degree program in partnership with South Essex College and the University of...