by Jennifer Lu | Aug 12, 2019 | Career, Trending
While most ballet casts are 100 percent human, it’s not unheard of for live animals to appear onstage, providing everything from stage dressing to supporting roles. Michael Messerer’s production of Don Quixote features a horse and a donkey; American Ballet...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jun 27, 2018 | News, Profiles
Last December, in the midst of the #MeToo movement and the scandal surrounding Peter Martins, the ballet world was shocked when longtime American Ballet Theatre principal Marcelo Gomes resigned suddenly. A statement from the company revealed that ABT had learned of an...
by Amy Brandt | Mar 8, 2017 | Company Life
They say that pigeons mate for life—perhaps that’s why these birds naturally symbolize the young lovers in Sir Frederick Ashton’s The Two Pigeons. In these two clips from a 1987 performance in Pisa, Alessandra Ferri and Robert LaFosse—then...
by Carrie Seidman | Apr 14, 2016 | News
Have a question? Send it to Pointe editor in chief and former dancer Amy Brandt at askamy@dancemedia.com. Sarasota Ballet artistic director Iain Webb approached Tony Dyson—owner of Sir Frederick Ashton’s Enigma Variations—about obtaining...