by Julia Guiheen | Jan 31, 2018 | Profiles, TBT
Updated 2/6/23. Last week, young ballet dancers from across the globe studied and competed for coveted scholarships at the Prix de Lausanne. This infamous competition has been a launch pad for many of the ballet world’s biggest stars. One such star is Royal...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Sep 17, 2017 | Career, Training
Over the past week, 52 dancers from 14 countries trained in the Royal Academy of Dance syllabus flocked to Lisbon, Portugal, for the 2017 Genée International Ballet Competition. After four days of coaching (see highlights on our Instagram), the dancers competed...
by Amy Brandt | Sep 4, 2017 | Profiles, Training
On September 7, The Genée International Ballet Competition—the Royal Academy of Dance’s flagship event—gets underway in Lisbon, Portugal. Founded in 1931, the Genée recognizes top talent with medals and cash prizes, as well as exposure...
by Amy Brandt | Jun 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
If you, like many of us here at Pointe, wish you could have seen Royal Ballet star Zenaida Yanowsky’s retirement performance on June 7, you’re in luck. The Royal will screen a recording of it in select movie theaters across the U.S. starting Sunday, June...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | May 24, 2016 | Company Life
In the spirit of honesty, we’ll just come out and say it: Here at Pointe, we’re not exactly tap dance experts. But that doesn’t mean we’ve never taken tap, nor that we’re immune to the beauty, technicality and historical importance of tap...
by Hannah Chang Foster | May 4, 2016 | Company Life
Photo by Nobby Clark/Arena PAL via The Royal Opera House on Flickr. Sir Frederick Ashton created his 1980 ballet Rhapsody in honor of Elizabeth The Queen Mother (mother of Elizabeth II) for her 80th birthday. I’d say this serene, elegant pas de deux is fit for a...
by Pointe Magazine | Nov 20, 2014 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. Steven McRae Commanding presence: McRae in Ashton’s Rhapsody Tristan Kenton, Courtesy ROH The Royal Ballet’s Steven McRae danced with a power and speed most people would...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Jan 18, 2011 | Company Life
Ballet and tap seem like polar opposites: one preoccupied with line and form, the other with rhythm and sound. But the two styles have more in common, says The Royal Ballet principal Steven McRae, than you might think. “Actually, I think tap dance is an ideal...