by Pointe Magazine | Nov 22, 2016 | Profiles
Miami City Ballet’s National Tour Artists of Miami City Ballet in Justin Peck’s Heatscape. Photo by Gene Schiavone, Courtesy Miami City Ballet. In late April at the Harris Theater, Chicagoans found Miami City Ballet firing on all cylinders, following the...
by Caroline Seymour | Jul 27, 2016 | Company Life
Former Royal Ballet principals Tamara Rojo and Carlos Acosta are notably one of the best couples to perform together. In this clip of Manon, it’s clear that Rojo and Acosta have an unadulterated chemistry, even with the pas de deux’s technically exhaustive...
by Hannah Chang Foster | May 15, 2016 | Company Life
Jeanette Kakereka competing for last year’s Emerging Dancer Award. Photo by ASH via ENB. It’s one thing to receive a nod of approval from your boss, but imagine how special it must feel to be validated by your fellow company members. Tomorrow, six English...
by Marina Harss | Mar 31, 2016 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2016 issue of Pointe. At 25, Isaac Hernández is entering his prime, and he knows it. This eternally restless dancer, already a veteran of two companies, recently found a home at a third, English National Ballet....
by Hannah Chang Foster | Feb 21, 2016 | Company Life
Whether it’s an oh-so fashionably late arrival to a ball or an endless line of impressively in-sync penchés, ballets know the power of a dramatic entrance. (Appropriate, perhaps, that the word “entrance” has a double meaning, depending on how...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Feb 3, 2016 | Company Life
Although it’s hard for me to imagine Tamara Rojo, the strong and savvy dancing director of the English National Ballet, as a helpless maiden (or to look away from those steely legs), she wonderfully captures Snow White’s sweet charm. This 2005 clip is from...
by Laura Cappelle | Nov 23, 2015 | Career, Company Life, Director's Notes
This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. While the 20th century brought a number of high-profile dancing directors, from Rudolf Nureyev in Paris to Mikhail Baryshnikov at American Ballet Theatre, most today don’t juggle...
by Michael Crabb | Dec 1, 2009 | Company Life
In reaching the top, how much is talent and how much is sweat? Talent may give you a momentary success, but if you want a sustained career, you have to work very, very hard at it. Who is your toughest critic? I am! Are you superstitious? Not at all. I once worked with...
