by Claudia Bauer | Apr 28, 2020 | Career, Profiles, The Latest
In a whirlwind 36 hours in mid-March, Royal Ballet principal dancer Lauren Cuthbertson performed Aurora in the Mariinsky Ballet’s production of The Sleeping Beauty, then returned to England and went into coronavirus lockdown in a house outside London. She told...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | May 12, 2016 | Company Life
William Shakespeare’s plays have provided inspiration to dozens of choreographers, but have you ever wondered how dance-makers translate his complex writing into beautiful dancing? This video from The Royal Ballet (a company full of natural dance-actors)...
by Hanna Rubin | Mar 31, 2016 | Career
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2016 issue of Pointe. In the Prologue to Christopher Wheeldon’s recent ballet The Winter’s Tale, two boys, princely playmates who one day will become kings, are joined onstage by two women veiled in black....
by Suzannah Friscia | Jan 21, 2016 | Health & Body, Wellness
The Royal Ballet’s Steven McRae in Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale. Photo by Johan Persson. We’re now in the middle of the winter season (and as those of you in the Northeast know, possibly heading into our first snowstorm of the year). The drop...
by Pointe Magazine | Nov 17, 2015 | Company Life
Hannah Fischer and Piotr Stanczyk in rehearsal for The Winter’s Tale. Photo by Aaron Vincent Elkaim, Courtesy NBoC. Ballet lovers, Shakespeare lovers and Christopher Wheeldon lovers, rejoice! The North American premiere of The Winter’s Tale is finally...