by Lauren Wingenroth | Sep 17, 2020 | Dance Teacher Awards, News
Who knew that a virtual awards ceremony could bring our community together in such a powerful way? Last night, we celebrated the annual Dance Teacher Awards, held virtually for the first time. Though it was different from what we’re used to, this new setting...
by Daniel Applebaum | Sep 4, 2020 | teacher stories
Aesha Ash is obsessed with movement. After training at the School of American Ballet and dancing with New York City Ballet, she traveled the world with Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet and Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. Ash spent that time...
by Lauren Wingenroth | Aug 19, 2020 | Dance Teacher Awards, teacher stories
Missed the 2020 Dance Teacher Awards? Watch them on-demand here. Most of us know Wendy Whelan for fearlessly approaching difficult tasks, whether creating a role in a new ballet, undergoing hip surgery (on camera, no less), embarking on a self-produced touring project...
by Amy Brandt For Pointe Magazine | May 15, 2020 | News
How many of us have hovered breathlessly over our iPads, watching grainy YouTube footage of Gelsey Kirkland and Mikhail Baryshnikov in Theme and Variations? Or Suzanne Farrell in Mozartiana? (Hundreds of thousands of us, to be exact.) Well, get ready: Yesterday,...
by Karen Hildebrand | Apr 6, 2020 | News, Teaching Tips
Create a Watch Party! Here are four free offerings from New York City’s most celebrated arts organizations to share with your students and their families.New York City BalletExcerpt of Christopher Wheeldon’s This Bitter Earth performed by Sara Mearns and...
by Haley Hilton | Sep 16, 2019 | News
Celebrated New York City Ballet principal Sara Mearns has recently been exploring collaborative possibilities with dance artists outside ballet. Just this year she was guest artist with Lori Belilove & The Isadora Duncan Company, and performed on Broadway in her...
by Pointe Magazine | May 3, 2019 | Placeholder content
In a large practice studio inside Lincoln Center’s Koch Theater, Suzanne Farrell watches quietly as New York City Ballet principals Sara Mearns and Russell Janzen work through a series of supported poses. As Janzen kneels to face her, Mearns brushes through to...
by Pointe Magazine | May 3, 2019 | Placeholder content
In a large practice studio inside Lincoln Center’s Koch Theater, Suzanne Farrell watches quietly as New York City Ballet principals Sara Mearns and Russell Janzen work through a series of supported poses. As Janzen kneels to face her, Mearns brushes through to...
by Lauren Wingenroth for Dance Magazine | Feb 28, 2019 | News
Well over a year after the retirement of Peter Martins, New York City Ballet has announced that former principal dancer Jonathan Stafford will lead the company and its affiliated School of American Ballet as artistic director. Fellow former principal Wendy Whelan will...
by Olivia Manno For Dance Spirit | Jan 11, 2019 | Trending
Every once in a while, the stars align, things fall precisely into place, and the perfect marketing campaign is born. Such is the case with New York City Ballet’s new trailer for their upcoming run of The Sleeping Beauty.Instead of going the traditional...