by Melissa Garlock | Feb 25, 2026 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Natalia Osipova is typically found selling out famous opera houses around the world. But this month, The Royal Ballet principal is headed to the Sunset Center in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, to make her Central Coast debut. On Friday, February 27, at 7:30 pm,...
by Kyra Laubacher | Apr 10, 2025 | News, The Latest
In August 2022, six months after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Adrenaline Films producer Julie Meyer found herself standing next to National Ballet of Ukraine stage director Oleh Tokar, looking at a photo on his phone. They, along with Meyer’s...
by Laura Cappelle | Jun 19, 2017 | Career, Inside PT, Profiles, Reverence
Last weekend, the Mariinsky Ballet announced on its website that one of its most revered prima ballerinas, Uliana Lopatkina, has retired from the stage. A principal dancer since 1995, Lopatkina’s interpretation of Odette/Odile and “The Dying Swan”,...
by As Told To Amy Brandt | Mar 31, 2016 | Profiles, Technique
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2016 issue of Pointe. The Dying Swan, choreographed by Michel Fokine for Anna Pavlova, is a short but powerful solo often reserved for the most revered ballerinas. Mariinsky Ballet principal Uliana Lopatkina shares the...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Nov 4, 2015 | Company Life
“With an inner voice the river ran, Adown it floated a dying swan…” -From The Dying Swan (1830) by Lord Alfred Tennyson Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poem The Dying Swan, along with a lifelong fascination with swans, inspired ballet legend Anna...