Changing Course: How the Pandemic Altered 5 Dancers’ Career Paths, With and Without Ballet

by Emma Love Suddarth | Jul 27, 2022 | Career, Company Life

Call it routine, call it ritual—each dancer has one. A life in ballet can dictate what we eat, how we exercise and what other passions we pursue; limited free time and energy outside of the studio allows for little else. Then COVID-19 hit, and everything stopped,...

Forsythe At Work: Inside Pacific Northwest Ballet's Rehearsals for William Forsythe's "New Suit"

by Marcie Sillman | Aug 2, 2015 | Career

This story originally appeared in the August/September 2015 issue of Pointe. William Forsythe isn’t a large man, and he’s not particularly flashy. But when he sidled into Pacific Northwest Ballet’s rehearsal studio on a bright winter afternoon, the...