by Nancy Wozny | Oct 1, 2020 | Instagram, Profiles
Joshua Guillemot-Rodgerson ‘s lanky frame made for a natural fit in Aszure Barton’s Come In, filling out the odd contours of Barton’s choreography with an exacting finesse. The Houston Ballet corps member and Juilliard grad, who excels in...
by Marina Harss | Sep 30, 2020 | Instagram, Profiles
When the curtain opens on Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room, there are two women onstage, wearing striped pants and tops, and sneakers. By the end, after almost 40 minutes of high-intensity dancing, they’ve stripped down to red leotards, their fists lifted...
by Lauren Warnecke | Sep 29, 2020 | Instagram, Profiles
A seasoned dancer, Dara Holmes’ career with The Joffrey Ballet has consisted of a lot of heavy lifting in the ensemble. “As a new company member, I was onstage all the time,” says Holmes, 28. “The older you get, the more you start to appreciate...
by Pointe Magazine | Oct 7, 2019 | Profiles, Trending
Here are 10 corps de ballet dancers we’re swooning over. Click their names and photos to learn more! Courtney Lavine, American Ballet Theatre Courtney Lavine in Marcelo Gomes’ AfterEffect. Rosalie O’Connor, Courtesy ABT. Sage Humphries, Boston Ballet...
by Claudia Bauer | Oct 7, 2019 | Instagram, Profiles
Jasmine Jimison is just 17, but she’s already experiencing a fairy-tale ballet career: In her first year as a San Francisco Ballet apprentice, Jimison made sparkling main- stage debuts as Cupid in Don Quixote, the Ballerina Doll in The Nutcracker and, in The...
by Steve Sucato | Oct 6, 2019 | Instagram
Watching Adelaide Clauss dance intoxicates the senses, a visual equivalent of a flower’s perfume. This past spring, while performing Swan Lake’s Act II pas de deux at a benefit in her hometown of Buffalo, New York, her melding of grace and technique...
by Guillermo Perez | Oct 4, 2019 | Instagram, Profiles
As a first-timer in the corps of Concerto Barocco, Mayumi Enokibara exercised a basic tenet: to find joy in a challenge. Though in the end she felt exhausted by the nonstop, intricately entwined Balanchine steps, the Brazilian-born ballerina—in her fourth year,...
by Lauren Warnecke | Oct 4, 2019 | Instagram, Profiles
In Yuri Possokhov’s premiere of Anna Karenina at The Joffrey Ballet last February, Edson Barbosa opened the full-length with a thrilling solo. It’s a sweeping, grandiose passage for the ill-fated station guard, who foreshadows Anna’s tragic end. The...