In March 2020, Miami City Ballet’s Nathalia Arja landed the promotion of her dreams. As the curtain closed on the company’s final performance of Firebird, artistic director Lourdes Lopez took Arja’s hand and told her she was now a principal dancer. “I was in shock,” she says. “It was such a loving moment.” Then, seemingly […]
Whether it’s a wardrobe malfunction or a spectacular, opera-house–sized fail, onstage mistakes happen to everybody. See how these four professionals survived their worst mishaps—and what they took away from them. Sterling Baca Baca in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev, courtesy of Pennsylvania Ballet “There I was on my very first day at the […]
Whether it’s a wardrobe malfunction or a spectacular, opera-house–sized fail, onstage mistakes happen to everybody. See how these four professionals survived their worst mishaps—and what they took away from them. Sterling Baca Baca in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev, Courtesy Pennsylvania Ballet. “There I was on my very first day at the Metropolitan […]