by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Heads up! Princess Grace Award applications are due April 30. This prestigious award is given out to a handful of talented student and professional dancers each year. In addition to the actual award which covers a year’s worth of salary or tuition, winners also...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Ever wish there was a social network just for ballet? Check out deballet.com! The newly-launched site has pages for professional dancers, choreographers, companies and schools. You can include a picture and bio, show your Twitter feed, link to your own site and...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
For an art form dominated by women, there sure are very few female in top positions in ballet. Actually, Richmond Ballet is hosting “The Glass Slipper Ceiling” focusing on the rarity of female artistic directors just this morning. Panelists include Ballet...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
This morning we had a cover shoot with one of my all-time favorite dancers who’s a principal at a top company. She’s reached a level of success that most dancers only dream of. Yet she told me that when she was young, she never thought she’d get...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Go behind the scenes with Boston Ballet principal Misa Kuranaga as she blogs from the company’s Spain tour —plus photos! I’m writing from Barcelona, Spain where I’m on tour with Boston Ballet for five weeks and in six...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
I’m now in Las Palmas and writing to you from the pool at the hotel. We had our first free day today! This past week we’ve been in San Sebastían and Santander. We were in both cities for only two days and they went by so quickly! It was chilly in...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
When I saw Paloma Herrera of American Ballet Theatre step onto the stage of So You Think You Can Dance last fall, I was speechless. One of my favorite ballerinas posed confidently to begin Kitri’s variation, on what seemed to be an awful floor for pointe work....
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Virginia Johnson, Pointe’s founding editor in chief, will hold a free master class at Dance Theatre of Harlem studios on Sunday from 11 am to 1 pm! Now artistic director of Dance Theatre of Harlem, Johnson invites advanced students to get a taste of DTH and...