by Steve Sucato | Oct 3, 2018 | Profiles
With the magical allure of a firefly against the night sky, Nashville Ballet’s Imani Sailers displayed flashes of brilliance in Heather Britt’s bendy, breezy contemporary pas de deux Claudette. It’s fitting that this breakout moment for Sailers came...
by Nancy Wozny | Oct 2, 2018 | Profiles
It’s hard not to notice Houston Ballet’s Andrew Vecseri. With his strapping good looks, athletic build and confidence, Vecseri has a way of standing out in ensemble work without stealing the show. Whether he’s dancing in Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s...
by Marina Harss | Oct 1, 2018 | Profiles
Lydia Wellington practically grew up at New York City Ballet. Her mom, a children’s book author and illustrator and ballet enthusiast, used to take her to shows up in the fifth ring when she was a toddler—”it was cheaper than babysitting,” says...
by Lauren Warnecke | Sep 30, 2018 | Profiles
Lilliana Hagerman stepped into the spotlight in 2016, dancing the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in Kansas City Ballet’s Nutcracker during her first season as a full company member. But it’s her chameleon-like ability to shift between classical and...
by Lauren Wingenroth | Sep 27, 2018 | Profiles
Anyone who watched American Ballet Theatre corps member Breanne Granlund during her years in the ABT Studio Company could have guessed that one day she’d be a standout in the main company. What they may not have predicted? That her breakout role would be in...
by Steve Sucato | Sep 26, 2018 | Profiles
Intensity is Samantha Griffin’s modus operandi, whether she’s self-reflecting on an unhappy, gilded existence in Garrett Smith’s Facades or violently whipping a metal chair into the wings in artistic director Victoria Morgan’s Black Coffee. The...
by Michael Crabb | Sep 25, 2018 | Profiles
Siphesihle November scarcely touched the ground as he launched into The Sleeping Beauty’s grueling Bluebird variation last March, dancing the avian steps with meticulous clarity and keen alertness to Tchaikovsky’s music. Nothing was forced or showy; it...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Aug 14, 2016 | Company Life
Every spring, Pointe writers and editors pull out stacks of programs saved over the past season and flip to the casting pages, looking for those telltale circled names: corps members who have caught our eye. Though we don’t claim clairvoyance, many Stars of the...