by Laura Cappelle | Nov 2, 2023 | Digital Cover Star, Pointe+
On March 5, 2022, Victor Caixeta was supposed to dance Don Quixote on a stage that had come to feel like home: that of Russia’s Mariinsky Theatre, in St. Petersburg. Instead, the 24-year-old from Brazil found himself in a minivan on the road to Tallinn, Estonia, with...
by Amy Brandt | Mar 16, 2022 | The Latest
The Dutch National Ballet announced today that Olga Smirnova, a star dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, will be joining the Amsterdam-based company as a principal, effective immediately. Victor Caixeta, a Brazilian-born soloist with the Mariinsky Ballet, will also be...
by Amy Brandt | Apr 20, 2020 | Career, Instagram, Profiles
On the Mariinsky Ballet’s tour to the U.S. last fall, audiences clamored to see long established stars like Ekaterina Kondaurova, Kimin Kim, Viktoria Tereshkina and Vladimir Shklyarov. But it was also an opportunity to catch an exciting group of young protégés...