by Amy Brandt | Dec 15, 2009 | Company Life
I just found out I fractured my talus (ankle) and can’t dance for 4-6 weeks. How should I ease my way into dance after my doctor gives me the okay? —Emily, Winchester, VA You’re wise to want to ease back into shape, because bone injuries need plenty of time to heal. I...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Dancing in the studio calls for strong technique, but commanding the stage of a major opera house requires a true performer. Boston Ballet students will get a chance to see if they have what it takes on May 18, when they take over The Boston Opera House for the second...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Forget the dinky rubber snake prop that “bites” Nikiya in traditional productions of La Bayadère: Stanton Welch’s re-imagination of the classic ballet, which Houston Ballet will premiere this February, features not one but five varieties of...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
That Ricardo Rhodes would become a professional dancer might once have been considered improbable. Introduced to the art at age 7 through Boston Ballet’s inner-city outreach program, Citydance, he admits his original attraction was getting out of school one day...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Melissa Podcasy’s career encompasses a rich mixture of great classics and new works. She has danced the Sylph, Juliet, Giselle and a host of principal roles choreographed for her by the likes of Christopher Wheeldon in Carolina and William Forsythe when she was...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Trey McIntyre’s Ma Maison, commissioned by the New Orleans Ballet Association and set to jazz music performed live by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, was a hit when the Trey McIntyre Project premiered it in 2008. This February the idiosyncratic choreographer will...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Pennsylvania Ballet’s February program may be made up of well-known contemporary works—Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room, Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia and William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude—but the latter two are new to the company. “I’m sorry...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Taking your job hunt overseas can feel completely overwhelming, but for many dancers, it can pay off with a company contract. Pointe’s February/March Dancer Spotlight, Shelby Elsbree, landed her spot in the corps of the Royal Danish Ballet after creating her own...
