by Amy Brandt | Mar 4, 2022 | The Latest
Updated on 3/9/2022 At Miami City Ballet’s February 26 performance of Alexei Ratmansky’s Swan Lake, artistic director Lourdes Lopez stepped in front of the curtain to give a pre-show speech. She asked for a moment of silence for the choreographer’s family members, who...
by Oksana Khadarina | Dec 27, 2020 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Instagram
What does it take for an American to graduate from the Vaganova Ballet Academy at the top of the class—and join the Mariinsky Ballet at the age of 17? And how would it feel to then be sidelined by injury, and miss an entire season of professional dancing, just...
by Marina Harss | May 12, 2020 | Career, Instagram, Profiles
In November, American Ballet Theatre principal Christine Shevchenko traveled to St. Petersburg to work with one of the coaches at the Mariinsky Ballet, Margarita Kullik. It was her fourth time working with Kullik, who in the 1980s and ’90s was a leading dancer...
by Anna Maples | Aug 5, 2018 | News
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. Vail Dance Festival Races to the Finish Line This Sunday, Vail Dance Festival wraps up an eventful few weeks jam-packed with premieres, collaborations and guests. The final...
by Pointe Magazine | Oct 12, 2016 | Training
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2016 issue of Pointe. As told to Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone and Madeline Schrock What was life like at the Vaganova Ballet Academy? Photo by Erik Tomasson, Courtesy SFB. Gabrielle Perkins, ABT Studio Company...
by Wendy Perron | Apr 2, 2015 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2015 issue of Pointe. A striking dancer with ultra-classical elegance, Joy Womack, who turns 21 in April, is the first American woman to graduate from the domestic program of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow in over...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Ballet documentaries, why are you so few and far between? We have to wait until next summer for the documentary Black Ballerina, which promises a candid discussion of racial disparities in the ballet world. And the latest buzz— Another Adventure, featuring Joy...