by Marina Harss | Jan 16, 2018 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
You made a deal with your mom to take ballet classes in exchange for a ride to tryouts for the football team. How did that work? I thought that I would take ballet for a couple months, become a master and then leave that alone and concentrate on football. Ballet had...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Dec 10, 2017 | Career, Everything Nutcracker
Literary Roots E.T.A. Hoffmann, a German writer, penned the eerie and dark tale “Nutcracker and Mouse King” in 1816. About 30 years later, the French writer Alexandre Dumas took the Nutcracker story into his own hands, lightening things up and softening...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Nov 6, 2017 | Career, Profiles, Trending
We’ve turned our clocks back and pulled out our scarves and hats. That can only mean one thing—winter’s coming. And with it, the Prix de Lausanne. After carefully viewing video submissions from 380 dancers (297 girls and 83 boys), the Prix’s...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jun 20, 2017 | Career
Choreographer Diane Coburn Bruning has a different kind of vision for her Chamber Dance Project. Though she relocated the project-based company from New York City to Washington, DC several years ago, her focus remains on creating collaborations between...
by Natalia Boesch | Oct 12, 2016 | Career, Profiles, Reverence
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2016 issue of Pointe. Why did you make the move from Dance Theatre of Harlem to The Washington Ballet? I had been at DTH for 13 years, and I wanted to see what else was out there. I felt like it was time for me to...
by Amy Brandt | Jun 15, 2016 | Company Life
Photo by Fabrizio Ferri, Courtesy TWB. Just a year ago, Julie Kent and Xiomara Reyes took their final bows at American Ballet Theatre. Now, the two ABT stars will be working together even more closely. Kent, who was named artistic director of The Washington Ballet in...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
On a muggy morning in early July, students in The Washington School of Ballet’s level eight class do not get to take it easy. On this day The Washington Ballet’s artistic director, Septime Webre, is teaching. He susses out potentials for the Studio...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
There’s nothing more incredible than seeing a dancer master the artistry of a powerful role like Odette/Odile. But let’s face it: We’re always thrilled once that Black Swan pas coda arrives. Throwing some triples into its series of 32 fouettés...