by Sierra Hitchcock | Oct 28, 2024 | Career, Company Life, Pointe+
One of the most challenging, but fascinating, jobs artistic directors undertake is planning their company’s repertoire each year. Programming is a task that requires insight, forethought, and creativity. Here, four artistic directors share how they approach designing...
by Emma Love Suddarth | Jun 25, 2024 | News, Onstage, The Latest
In fall 2018, the ballet community lost a rising talent, Raffaella Stroik. According to her obituary, the St. Louis Ballet dancer drowned in a Missouri lake that November at the age of 23. Her tragic passing shook the dance world, inciting an outpouring of love and in...
by Katie Slattery | Sep 27, 2022 | Technique
Gen Horiuchi, Saint Louis Ballet’s executive and artistic director, achieved the type of storied career many dancers dream of: After growing up in a ballet family in Japan (both of his parents were professional dancers), he won the Prix de Lausanne and was offered a...