The emerging choreographer is making waves. Schreier rehearsing with Ballet Academy East. Rosalie O’Connor, Courtesy Schreier Claudia Schreier has burst onto the ballet scene seemingly out of nowhere. She graduated from Harvard University with a passion for making ballets and, since winning the Breaking Glass Project in 2014, the freelance choreographer has been enjoying an accelerated and […]
Recently, the ballet world seems to be owning up to the fact that it’s got a female choreographer problem. Some companies have started devoting entire evenings to works by women, while others are incorporating female choreography into their regular seasons more slowly but steadily. For example, next year, Crystal Pite will be the first woman to create for The Royal […]
What do choreographers look for in dancers? I always love hearing the wild range of answers dancemakers give whenever we ask them that question. Their responses vary like crazy, but even when someone’s super specific about technical qualities they want in the dancers they hire, I’ve yet to hear someone ask for only “great extensions and turnout.” (Thank goodness.) […]
The School of Pennsylvania Ballet’s Company Experience gives aspiring professionals a taste of the ballet life. Arantxa Ochoa coaches students with the intensity of a ballet mistress. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev, courtesy PAB A group of young women in colorful ballet skirts waits quietly for Arantxa Ochoa to start. The director of The School of […]
As much as everyone talks about diversity in ballet these days, the barrage of Misty Copeland coverage can sometimes make it seem like she’s the only person fighting to break barriers. Just today, Glamour named her one of its Women of the Year for “blazing her own path.” Kudos to Misty, but there many other path-blazers out there, too. Earlier this week, […]
The Pennsylvania Ballet soloist transforms for classical and contemporary roles alike. Di Piazza in Coppélia. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev, Courtesy Pennsylvania Ballet. With an easy elegance, 24-year-old Lillian Di Piazza gravitates to lyrical roles. But she’ll take on any challenge. Promoted last season from the corps to soloist, she shifts from percussive jazziness to supple […]
Trey McIntyre and Matthew Neenan will coach dancers at the 2014 USA IBC. 2010 USA IBC contemporary competitors. Photo by Richard Finkelstein, Courtesy USA IBC. In the contemporary round at ballet competitions, dancers often perform wildly varying styles—it’s not uncommon to see neoclassical pointework followed by barefooted modern dance. But the USA International Ballet […]
An insider’s guide to contemporary solos at ballet competitions Goyo Montero (of Staatstheater Nürnberg Ballett) coached competitors at this year’s Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland. Photo by Gregory Batardon, Courtesy Prix de Lausanne. When you begin working on a classical ballet variation for competition, you know what you’re getting into. You’ll need to […]
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