by Kathleen Smith | Nov 17, 2022 | News, Onstage
The timing of a new ballet inspired by a trilogy of dystopian novels by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood is especially poignant as the world emerges from its pandemic panic. Choreographed by Wayne McGregor, with a score by Max Richter, and performed by the artists...
by Madeline Schrock | Aug 22, 2018 | Cross-Training, Health & Body, Profiles
National Ballet of Canada principal Svetlana Lunkina shares the choreographer who pushed her to the next level and secrets of her conditioning regimen. Wayne’s world: Despite being naturally limber, when Svetlana Lunkina worked with Wayne McGregor on his...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jun 3, 2018 | News
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. ABT’s New Harlequinade is Finally Here The long wait for Alexei Ratmansky’s Harlequinade for American Ballet Theatre is finally over. June 4-9, catch ABT at the...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | May 20, 2018 | News
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. Wayne McGregor Makes His ABT Choreographic Debut Ever since Vaslav Nijinsky shocked Paris audiences in 1913 with his Rite of Spring for the Ballets Russes, dancemakers from...
by Amy Brandt | Oct 30, 2017 | Career, Profiles
A year ago, Derek Dunn was one of Houston Ballet’s brightest young talents (oh, and he was also gracing Pointe’s cover). So some were surprised when he announced that he’d be joining Boston Ballet as a soloist this season. We caught up with Dunn as...
by Claudia Bauer | Aug 27, 2017 | Career, Profiles
Wearing leggings and a puffy vest as she works in one of The Royal Ballet’s light-filled studios, Charlotte Edmonds could pass for a corps de ballet member. Instead, she is choreographing on them, creating dynamic, ballet-based contemporary dance in her role as...
by Laura Cappelle | Apr 3, 2017 | Profiles, Technique
In Wayne McGregor’s high-octane Chroma, The Royal Ballet’s Sarah Lamb finds meditative stillness. As told to Laura Cappelle Chroma was the first ballet I worked on with Wayne McGregor, and it was like embarking on a relationship for the first time....
by Hanna Rubin | Mar 31, 2016 | Career
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2016 issue of Pointe. In the Prologue to Christopher Wheeldon’s recent ballet The Winter’s Tale, two boys, princely playmates who one day will become kings, are joined onstage by two women veiled in black....