Few young ballet dancers get to share the stage with international stars like Daniil Simkin and Iana Salenko. That opportunity is even less likely for students who don’t live in dance hubs like New York City or San Francisco. But for a lucky group of 15- to 19-year-old dancers from Arizona, a brand-new gala has […]
Daniil Simkin with Céline Cassone American Ballet Theatre principal Daniil Simkin trained privately with his mother, Russian ballerina Olga Aleksandrova, from age 9 to 19. To motivate him during his adolescent years, she used creative incentives. “She knew how to work with me. I remember one time when she bribed me. I wanted this computer […]
Dance Magazine’s second episode of “Behind the Curtain” follows fan favorite Daniil Simkin for a day. The American Ballet Theatre principal takes viewers inside a rehearsal for INTENSIO, a program of four new dances by Alexander Ekman, Gregory Dolbashian, Jorma Elo and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. Simkin is dancing in and co-producing the performance, which premieres July 22 […]
How adorable is American Ballet Theatre principal Daniil Simkin? Watch him frolic and fouetté his way through the streets of New York in an unabashedly princely costume in this super short film directed by choreographer Alexander Ekman. We dare you not to LOL:
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