by Laura Cappelle | Feb 19, 2018 | Career, Company Life
Ella Persson remembers the rehearsals for her debut as Giselle. “I was in my first year with the company, and I started preparing with Mikhail Messerer during late evenings,” the Mikhailovsky Ballet’s Swedish-born coryphée says. “I was...
by Laura Cappelle | Oct 1, 2017 | Profiles
This is Pointe’s October/November 2017 Cover Story. You can subscribe to the magazine here, or click here to purchase this issue. At just 20 years old, Cesar Corrales has skyrocketed to principal at English National Ballet. English National Ballet was midway...
by Hannah Foster | Aug 3, 2016 | Company Life
Ah, the Olympic ceremonies: When athletes of the world parade with their flags into the international spotlight, when host countries pay tribute to their cultural heritages and when I (without fail) tear up at the beauty of it all. Ballet doesn’t usually play...
by Claudia Bauer | Nov 20, 2014 | Career, Profiles
This story originally appeared in the December 2014/January 2015 issue of Pointe. When former Bolshoi stars Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev called off their engagement in 2013, fans wondered whether their spectacular onstage partnership was over as well. On their...
by Pointe Magazine | Nov 28, 2012 | Company Life
Alina Cojocaru At 31, The Royal Ballet’s Alina Cojocaru finally got the ultimate gift for a dancer: a full-length ballet created on her. John Neumeier choreographed Hamburg Ballet’s Liliom just for Cojocaru, tailoring the role of Julie, a poor waitress in...
by Jennifer Heimlich | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
Forget his ridiculous leaps and irresistible stage presence—Ivan Vasiliev officially became one of my favorite people when he told Pointe that he’d “love to be tall, blond and have blue eyes…and Wolverine claws!” And, just FYI, the guy...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
We have to hand it to the Russians. Olympic opening ceremonies are always brilliant spectacles, but rarely do they involve appearances by world-class ballet dancers. Last Friday night, the Sochi opening ceremony offered a smorgasbord of rich, theatrical images, many...
by Margaret Fuhrer | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
It seems like only a few days ago that Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev swept onto the international dance scene, bewitching audiences with their feats of daredeviltry. Yet it was back in 2006 that the pair made their breakout debuts as Kitri and Basilio in Don...