If you haven’t discovered it by now, Kurt Froman’s Instagram account has become a treasure trove of amazing ballet footage. Recently, he’s been posting clips of Gelsey Kirkland rehearsing Don Quixote, most likely taken a couple years after she joined American Ballet Theatre. You can watch her breaking down each step, working with her ballet […]

Mónica Gómez became Houston Ballet’s newest It girl overnight after her sensational April performance of Kitri. All fire, but with ample doses of flash, Gómez brought her natural star power to the role’s nuances. “I am a very shy person,” says the soloist, “so I had to work on my sass.” Her richly textured dancing, […]

Every soloist hopes and prays for the moment when their director offers that first big lead role. For American Ballet Theatre’s Christine Shevchenko, it happened last November when artistic director Kevin McKenzie informed her that the following spring she’d dance the role of Kitri at the Metropolitan Opera House. After three years as a soloist, […]