The Pointe - 2019 - Off-Broadway Articles Page 1

Boston Ballet will present Spring Experience, a compelling mixed-repertory program that highlights the Company's versatility and artistic depth through three distinct works.

Hope Muir, Joan and Jerry Lozinksi Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, announced today that Principal Dancer Siphesihle November will be departing the company at the end of the 2025/26 season.

The Mary B. Galvin Artistic Director Ashley Wheater has added three dancers to the Joffrey roster for the 2025-26 season. Learn more about the new dancers here!

Today’s subject Carlos Acosta is currently living his theatre Life as the Artistic Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet. He has been in the position since January of 2020. Carlos’ work can be seen at the Kennedy Center in the Opera House from June 4th to the 8th when Birmingham Royal Ballet presents Black Sabbath- The Ballet.

The National Ballet of Canada will welcome three new Principal Dancers: Chase O'Connell and Beckanne Sisk from Houston Ballet and Agnes Su from The Stuttgart Ballet.

Lake Tahoe Dance Collective will present the 13th Annual Lake Tahoe Dance Festival from July 22 - 25, 2025, featuring artists from New York City Ballet, Broadway, Boston Ballet, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and more.

Multi-award-winning producer/director/writer/actor/choreographer Breton Tyner-Bryan's latest film ESCAPE, will make its German Premiere at the Berlin Commercial Film Festival. Learn more!

Ballet stars from across the globe will join Youth America Grand Prix to celebrate this year's “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow” Gala on April 29 at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Ballet stars from across the globe will join Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) – the world’s largest ballet scholarship organization – to celebrate this year’s “Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow” Gala on April 29 at Lincoln Center in New York City.

The 2025/26 Broadway at the Marcus Center season has been announced, along with the new MPAC Presents Jazz and Dance series for 2025/26. Learn more about the season here!

Before seeing this show, I knew nothing of it besides a quite comedically tantalizing Instagram promo video and a snazzy 60’s referencing sci-fi movie poster.  The script and plot however was as elusive as even the idea of a commonly puerile film executive attempting to write an exploitable and profitable, A-list silver screen-play hit written by a bunch of particularly un-talented and servile lackeys.  And yet, SHPIDER! is as surprising a runaway hit as (spoiler) the comedy’s fantastical ending!

Global Talent Education Network will present their College and Professional Dance Fair to be held at Nashville Ballet. This inaugural event is designed to connect talented young dancers with top-tier dance programs and institutions.

Greg Cameron, President and CEO of The Joffrey Ballet, and Anne Kaplan, Board Chair, have announced the appointment of Farissa Knox as the new President of the Joffrey Women’s Board.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre has announced a new monthly Master Class Series for the 2024-25 season. Learn more about the upcoming lineup here!

Monica Kobayashi, an overachiever juggling her role as a ballet dancer, finance consultant, and more, struggles to secure an artist visa while facing immense societal and familial pressure from her more-than-typical Asian parents.

Zhang Quan’s Acrobatic Swan Lake is so much more than its title suggests. The show originated in China in 2004 and, in the intervening decades, has travelled the world and was updated in 2019 under director Yan Hongxia. As choreographer and artistic director, Quan has created a work which seamlessly blends the elegance and poetry of ballet with the ability of circus to defy physics and the limits of the human body.

Kentucky Performing Arts will host the Violent Femmes at Old Forester's Paristown Hall.

The 2024-25 Kennedy Center Dance season has been revealed! See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

Five hundred dancers will gather outside the Plaza Hotel in New York City to attempt to break a Guiness World Record, the Associated Press reports.

The evening includes ten works and the premise is an important, and pressing one: where is ballet (as we know it) going…?

Ballet Kelowna will close its 2023/24 Season of Drama with the highly anticipated return of Macbeth, the Company’s first commissioned, full-length ballet, at the Kelowna Community Theatre on May 3 + 4, 2024 at 7:30pm.

Welcome to another edition of Arkansas Shooting Stars. These two actresses have bright futures ahead of them, and we couldn't be more excited.

Soho Rep will present The Fires, a world premiere play written and directed by Raja Feather Kelly. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

Join Borderlands Theater for an in-process showing of ANTIGONA 3.0, made possible by a significant grant. Witness the evolution of this exciting new production firsthand.

With an eclectic programme including an immersive dreamscape, an intense two-hander and a revolutionary footstomper, the Ballet national de Marseille present a six-pack of impressive dance pieces.