by Amy Brandt | Apr 20, 2017 | News
Are you a dancer between the ages of 15 and 18, or in high school grades 10–12? Are you interested in receiving scholarships (up to $10,000), working with mentors like Mikhail Baryshnikov and having a chance to be named a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts?...
by Suzannah Friscia | Apr 12, 2017 | Career, Profiles, Viral Videos
It’s Youth America Grand Prix time again, and when the competition wraps up this week, we’ll meet some of tomorrow’s potential stars. YAGP has a track record of predicting some of ballet’s biggest names. Take a walk down memory lane with us and...
by Suzannah Friscia | Oct 6, 2016 | Company Life
Lately, it seems like mentorship is having something of a moment: Many pro dancers are coming up with creative ways to give back to the dance community and act as a resource for young students striving to reach the top. Take Kathryn Morgan, who started her own blog...
by Suzannah Friscia | Jun 19, 2016 | Company Life
It’s that time of year again: Applications to become a 2017 YoungArts Winner are now open. Every year, the National YoungArts Foundation offers awards to promising high school-aged artists in the visual, literary, design and performing arts—and those...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Nov 15, 2015 | Company Life
“Ballet for 400!” On Tuesday, November 17, for the second time, contestants on Jeopardy! will take a stab at ballet trivia with the help of dancers from American Ballet Theatre—another event to celebrate the company’s 75th anniversary season....
by Joseph Carman | May 31, 2015 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s June/July 2015 Cover Story. Ascending the ranks to “ballerina” status at American Ballet Theatre comprises the stuff of dreams for many dancers. Since its inception in 2003, ABT’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School has been...
by Joseph Carman | Sep 24, 2014 | Career, Company Life, Profiles
In a rehearsal before their Lincoln Center performance of Coppélia last May, Sarah Lane and Daniil Simkin ran through some of the partnering in a studio several levels below the Metropolitan Opera stage where they would perform. In Frederic Franklin’s charming...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 17, 2010 | Company Life
Natalie Portman’s character loses her grip on reality in Black Swan. Photo by Niko Tavernise. Sarah Lane is standing onstage holding a syringe of fake blood. “When do you want me to start dripping it?” she yells out to the house. It’s the last day of filming the...
