While it’s not typical for a ballet company to be on the front page of a city newspaper, Stoner Winslett has been anything but a typical artistic director. Her announced retirement from Richmond Ballet was front-page news for the Richmond Times-Dispatch in September. After more than four decades of guiding dancers through highlights and hardships, […]

Here are the latest promotions, appointments, and departures, as well as notable awards and accomplishments, from September 2023.

Are ballet companies different when led by a female artistic director? Before becoming its artistic director, Karen Kain danced for every director in National Ballet of Canada’s history, then staged ballets, did fundraising and observed the administrative offices under her predecessor James Kudelka. But she wasn’t ambitious for the top job. Although she had a […]

Many productions of Nutcracker feature the traditional Act II dances that have been challenged as negative stereotypes. We asked three directors their opinions. Ronald Alexander, Program director of the professional training programs at Steps on Broadway and the director of Harlem School of the Arts Prep Program. The whole ballet tradition is inherently racist, so […]