by Kyra Laubacher | Apr 11, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
This month, the 171-year-old State Ballet of Georgia returns to the U.S. for the first time in seven years. Under the direction of former American Ballet Theatre and Bolshoi Ballet principal (and longtime ballet icon) Nina Ananiashvili since 2004, the 62-dancer...
by Julia Guiheen | Jul 22, 2020 | Viral Videos
Twenty years ago, Nina Ananiashvili, the current artistic director of the State Ballet of Georgia, graced the cover of Pointe’s second issue. At the time, she was a principal dancer with both the Bolshoi Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Her expressiveness and...
by Lucy Van Cleef | Jul 16, 2020 | Profiles
To celebrate Pointe’s 20th anniversary, we revisited some of our past cover stars for their take on how life—and ballet—has changed. Nina Ananiashvili, Summer 2000 Then: Principal dancer, American Ballet Theatre and Bolshoi Ballet Now: Artistic...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jul 14, 2020 | Profiles, The Latest, Viral Videos
Have you ever wished you could pull back the curtain and watch some of our country’s most beloved ballerinas being coached? With the coronavirus pandemic keeping theaters closed for the foreseeable future, NYCC has moved its popular Studio 5...
by Julia Guiheen | Sep 18, 2018 | Profiles, TBT
When Jules Perrot’s Pas de Quatre premiered in London in 1845, it was an unprecedented event in the ballet world. Created for four of the greatest ballerinas of the day—Marie Taglioni, Carlotta Grisi, Lucile Grahn and Fanny Cerrito—the ballet was essentially the...
by Pointe Magazine | Nov 22, 2016 | Training
This story originally appeared in the December 2016/January 2017 issue of Pointe. As told to Madeline Schrock and Nancy Wozny We asked five frequent judges for their advice, their pet peeves and their approach to the scoring process. Peter Stark Head of the...
by Hannah Foster | May 19, 2016 | Views
Is anyone more at home onstage than Nina Ananiashvili? Her majestic stage presence is on display in this 1993 clip of her and fellow Bolshoi Ballet star Alexei Fadeyechev dancing Raymonda’s Act I pas de deux. The two make a commanding pair, refined and elegant...
by Amy Brandt | May 4, 2016 | Company Life
It was a tale of two competitions here in New York City last week: While Youth America Grand Prix was taking over Greenwich Village and Brooklyn, the Valentina Kozlova International Ballet Competition was underway uptown. (Which meant a lot of running around for this...