by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 24, 2019 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights! English National Ballet Brings Akram Khan’s “Giselle” to Chicago This week, English National Ballet comes to the U.S. for the first time in 30 years. The...
by Caroline Hamilton | Aug 28, 2017 | Career, Profiles
For former American Ballet Theatre star Julie Kent, this has not only been her first year at The Washington Ballet, but her first year as an artistic director. How has it been going? We caught up with her during the company’s run at the Jacob’s Pillow...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jul 30, 2017 | Company Life, Nutrition
Who says dancers don’t eat? In 1979, the corps of American Ballet Theatre went on strike in a fight to increase their wages (starting corps members made a measly $235 a week). “We’re underpaid and overworked” said soloist Rebecca Wright in a...