by Louise Ryrie | May 14, 2025 | Career, Company Life, Pointe+
Pilar Ortega, now in her first season with London City Ballet, remembers a time she was asked to step in for another dancer at the last minute. “I frantically marked steps in the wings while the prologue music played,” Ortega says.“I had to trust I knew the...
by Candice Thompson | Oct 15, 2019 | Career, Company Life
During one of Charlotte Nash’s first few weeks with Houston Ballet II, she was thrown into a run-through of Balanchine’s Theme and Variations. “I had never really understudied before and I didn’t know what I was doing,” she says. “I...