by Kyra Laubacher | May 7, 2025 | News, The Latest
The past few weeks have brought another exciting round of ballet career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in your May 2025 roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments Maya Schonbrun has been promoted to principal at Royal Swedish...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Aug 14, 2024 | News, The Latest
New company leaders sometimes stake their claims with wide-sweeping changes to programming and rosters. But an “out with the old, in with the new” mentality is hard to execute at a ballet company where the outgoing party is a beloved founding artistic director—one who...
by Hannah Chang Foster | May 31, 2024 | News, The Latest
At the opening of Richmond Ballet’s Studio Three series this month, Stoner Winslett gave one of her very last curtain speeches. “I am still the artistic director of Richmond Ballet,” she quipped in the introduction. The audience burst into laughter. Winslett had just...
by Helen Hope | Oct 14, 2020 | Company Life, Instagram, News, Onstage
It’s a rare ballet company that can present three months of in-person performances despite (and amidst) the chaos of 2020. Against the odds, Richmond Ballet is doing just that, pulling off a COVID-era adaptation of its perennial Studio Series. Arriving at...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Nov 4, 2019 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights. Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Locally Sourced Program Features Three World Premieres Pacific Northwest Ballet brings three world premieres to Seattle audiences this week....
by Lea Marshall | Feb 1, 2015 | Career, Company Life
This story originally appeared in the February/March 2015 issue of Pointe. In 1980, just months after graduating from Smith College, Stoner Winslett attended a performance by Richmond Ballet. Though it was then just a student company, with a modest budget of $164,000,...