by Gavin Larsen | Mar 10, 2023 | Audition Advice, Career, Pointe+
Kayla DeGaray remembers the frustration vividly. “I’d come out of class and anxiously refresh my email over and over, just hoping something would come through,” she says, recalling her intense audition season as a senior at Butler University. “But most of the time,...
by Kyra Laubacher | Oct 28, 2022 | News, Onstage
Carmen—the saucy, dramatic ballet packed with scandal and Spanish flair—gets a new look at Tulsa Ballet this November. With reworked costumes and brand-new choreography by Northern Ballet resident choreographer Kenneth Tindall, this iteration adds contemporary twists...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 18, 2019 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. Houston Ballet’s New Full Length Story Ballet, “Sylvia,” Has Its World Premiere This week, Houston Ballet is putting its stamp on an old classic with the...
by Amy Brandt | May 10, 2018 | News, Training
Updated on 08/28/19 “I never wanted to stop dancing, I just wanted the bullying to stop,” says American Ballet Theatre corps member Patrick Frenette in the trailer for Danseur, a new feature-length documentary about the social stigmatization young men face...
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Apr 1, 2015 | News
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2015 issue of Pointe. The close of the 2014–15 season marks Marcello Angelini’s 20th year as artistic director at Tulsa Ballet, a company that has grown substantially under his leadership. Since he arrived in 1995,...
by Susan Chitwood | Nov 22, 2009 | Company Life
Tulsa Ballet’s Marcello Angelini builds an international troupe in the heart of Oklahoma. At first glance, the 28 members of Tulsa Ballet seemed to vanish, chameleon-like, into their roles when they performed last August at New York City’s Joyce Theater. Had...
by Pointe Team | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
It was Tulsa Ballet Artistic Director Marcello Angelini’s dream to build a world-class company from the moment he decided to give up his career as a dancer and take artistic control of TB in 1995. Some would say that he has succeeded, and perhaps because he’s still a...