by Pointe Magazine | Dec 29, 2023 | News, The Latest
It’s that time of year again…Introducing your 2023 Readers’ Choice Standout Performances! From Nutcracker to romantic classics, exciting world premieres, and more, a variety of performances by dancers and companies made this year’s list. We love learning what has made...
by Claudia Bauer | Jul 26, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Summer is a season of creative freedom for ballet dancers, with festivals, side companies, and personal projects providing a refreshing change from the regular pace of company life. This summer, Ballet22 offers a rare opportunity: a showcase for nonbinary, queer, and...
by Lydia Murray | Aug 16, 2022 | Black History Month, Profiles
History’s rare gems often languish in the shadows of what might have been, and ballet is no exception. Those credited with shaping the artform—usually choreographers, principal dancers and impresarios—become legends, while corps de ballet members mostly go...
by Julia Guiheen | Aug 26, 2020 | TBT
Among her storied gifts, Maya Plisetskaya, former prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet, was renowned for her ability to imbue classical choreography with rich layers of meaning. In this 1963 clip of Aurora’s Act I variation from The Sleeping Beauty,...
by Julia Guiheen | May 27, 2020 | Viral Videos
The charming and exuberant Antoinette Sibley became a principal at The Royal Ballet in 1960, when she was just 21 years old. Sibley dazzled alongside many danseurs during her career, including former principal Brian Shaw, a bravura dancer known for his virtuosic turns...
by Julia Guiheen | Sep 18, 2019 | Profiles, TBT
What do Diana Vishneva, Olga Smirnova, Kristina Shapran and Maria Khoreva all have in common? These women, among the most impressive talents to graduate from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in recent years, all studied under legendary professor Lyudmila Kovaleva....
by Julia Guiheen | Aug 7, 2019 | Profiles, Viral Videos
English National Ballet star Alina Cojocaru was still a Royal Ballet principal in 2006 when she guest-starred in the Mariinsky Ballet’s production of The Sleeping Beauty. And as this clip of her Aurora proves, she is indeed a vision in Act II’s dream...
by Sasha De Sola As Told To Claudia Bauer | Jul 15, 2019 | Instagram, Profiles, Technique
The first time I saw Sleeping Beauty was on video, the Kirov version with Larissa Lezhnina. The music for the first entrance gave me butterflies. Aurora comes out, and it captured my heart. Larissa coached me for my first season of Aurora, and just the fact that we...