by Oksana Khadarina | Dec 27, 2020 | Career, Dancer Spotlight, Instagram
What does it take for an American to graduate from the Vaganova Ballet Academy at the top of the class—and join the Mariinsky Ballet at the age of 17? And how would it feel to then be sidelined by injury, and miss an entire season of professional dancing, just...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Apr 10, 2018 | Just for fun
Yana Cherepanova is a gifted 13-year-old student at St. Petersburg’s elite Vaganova Ballet Academy. Which is cool enough in its own right. But Yana is also the latest person to break the internet, thanks to the absolutely mind-boggling balance videos she’s...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 19, 2018 | Profiles, Trending, Viral Videos
At the beginning of the month, 74 young dancers from around the world gathered in Lausanne, Switzerland to compete in the 46th Prix de Lausanne. At the end of a packed week, eight candidates were named prizewinners, including 16-year-old California-native Aviva...
by Steve Sucato | Sep 2, 2017 | Dancer Spotlight, Features, Inside PT, Profiles
Plucked from its second company to star as Olga in Tulsa Ballet’s 2016 production of Onegin, Tomoka Kawazoe offered the kind of classic story-ballet sweetness that audiences love. Yet the 19-year-old Tokyo native is equally adept in contemporary works. She wowed...
by Amy Brandt | Oct 31, 2016 | Company Life
Translated by Helena Terteryan What does it take to train at Russia’s prestigious Vaganova Ballet Academy? Established in 1738, the venerable institution began an international trainee program in the early 1990s, accepting up to 40 foreign students each year....
by Pointe Magazine | Oct 12, 2016 | Training
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2016 issue of Pointe. As told to Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone and Madeline Schrock What was life like at the Vaganova Ballet Academy? Photo by Erik Tomasson, Courtesy SFB. Gabrielle Perkins, ABT Studio Company...
by Amy Brandt | May 4, 2016 | Company Life
It was a tale of two competitions here in New York City last week: While Youth America Grand Prix was taking over Greenwich Village and Brooklyn, the Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition was underway uptown. (Which meant a lot of running around for this...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
It’s only every so often that we get to peek behind the curtains of the world’s most acclaimed ballet companies. So when this video of the Mariinsky Theatre and Vaganova Ballet Academy came across our desks, we couldn’t wait to watch it. The 25-minute...