Laura Cappelle

Laura Cappelle is a dance writer and sociologist based in Paris. She contributes regularly to the Financial Times, Pointe, Dance Magazine, Dancing Times and Dance Europe. She researches the creation process in ballet companies.

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Mikhail Messerer's Formula for Making the Mikhailovsky Ballet Stand Out

Hail Cesar: English National Ballet's Cesar Corrales

The Paris Opéra's Diversity Report Proposes Steps Towards a More Inclusive Company

Tess Voelker Is Only 23, but She’s About to Premiere Her First Work for the Paris Opéra Ballet

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Has Been Choreographing Up a Storm on Zoom and Learning How to Create Dance on Film

Bolshoi Ballet Star Olga Smirnova on Training in Isolation, and the Mysterious Alchemy of Success

Royal Ballet Principal Marianela Nuñez on Her Signature Role: Don Quixote's Kitri

Our Very First Cover Star: Catching Up With April Ball Two Decades Later

Standout Performances of 2019: Ballet Black in "The Suit"

Ballet Prodigy Li Cunxin Was a Stockbroker Before He Became Queensland Ballet’s Artistic Director

Dancing Down Under: 6 American Dancers on Life at Royal New Zealand Ballet

Marcelino Sambé: The Royal Ballet's Princely Powerhouse

The Standouts of 2018: Mariinsky Ballet's Olesya Novikova in "The Sleeping Beauty"

Brit-Born Mariinsky Ballet Principal Xander Parish Shares His Most Embarrassing Onstage Moment

Alban Lendorf on Being Part of The Royal Danish Ballet & American Ballet Theatre (Plus, His Favorite Role at ABT)

Mikhail Messerer's Formula for Making the Mikhailovsky Ballet Stand Out

The Standouts of 2017: Kirsten McNally in Crystal Pite's "Flight Pattern" at The Royal Ballet

Grace Under Pressure: The Bolshoi Ballet's Alena Kovaleva

Hail Cesar: English National Ballet's Cesar Corrales

From Dancer to Director: Norwegian National Ballet's Ingrid Lorentzen