by Natalia Boesch | Jul 8, 2018 | Technique, Training, Viral Videos
Married couple and former American Ballet Theatre principals Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky share their advice for an essential partnering element: fish dives. For Men Handle with care: Holding the ballerina in the wrong place can cause her a lot of pain....
by Madeline Schrock | Feb 22, 2017 | Company Life
Since 2000, megastars and budding ballet celebrities alike have graced the covers of Pointe. Take a walk with us down memory lane as we recall some of the biggest names from some of our earliest issues. Whether they continue to perform or have transitioned to a...
by Amy Brandt | Sep 30, 2015 | Career
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2015 issue of Pointe. “Cut!” Ethan Stiefel’s voice booms from behind a monitor. The cast of “Flesh and Bone,” the Starz network’s new television series set in a New York City ballet...
by Amy Brandt | Apr 28, 2015 | Company Life
If you are eagerly awaiting the November 8 premiere of Starz’s gritty ballet drama “Flesh and Bone,” you’re in luck. The network released its first trailer of the eight-hour limited series yesterday—and it looks pretty tantalizing. The...
by Pointe Magazine | Nov 20, 2013 | Company Life
Olga Smirnova Expectations can be a heavy burden to bear for a young dancer on the fast track to stardom. Few have justified the hype like the Bolshoi Ballet’s 21-year-old Olga Smirnova. The Vaganova-trained first soloist had an international coming out party to...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Daily class may feel like the proverbial grind—like eating your vegetables before you get to the good stuff. But professionals know better: Without class, there is no good stuff. Below, six top dancers describe how they make daily class work for them. Patricia...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
With its mix of gangsters, vaudeville and ballet, On Your Toes was the first major Broadway musical to incorporate classical dance—courtesy of George Balanchine. One of the 1936 show’s numbers is the much-beloved Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, often performed by...
by Madeline Schrock | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Fishnets, gangsters, vaudeville and. . . Balanchine? One of these things may not seem like the others, but dancers know it’s a killer combination. The 1936 Broadway musical Rodgers & Hart’s On Your Toes combines all this, plus song-and-dance tap numbers, and...