Pointe Magazine

Just before a performance during Tulsa Ballet’s 2023 run at Jacob’s Pillow, artistic director Marcello Angelini suddenly felt the stakes rise. As audience members settled into their seats, he spotted Kevin O’Hare, artistic director of The Royal Ballet, among them.

A year earlier, Angelini had seen a performance at The Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre. What he’d r...

The past few weeks have brought another exciting round of ballet career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in your May 2026 roster roundup.

This month, The Australian Ballet artistic director David Hallberg promoted Davi Ramos to principal onstage following the company’s performance...

For its latest production, Ballet RI is reimagining a play inspired by an infamous New York murder case. In 1927, Long Island resident Ruth Snyder conspired with her lover, Henry Judd Gray, in the brutal killing of her husband, Albert Snyder. Ruth Snyder’s execution by electric chair—the first to be photographed—rocked Long Island and beyond. Gray was executed shortly after S...

BalletMet dancer Grace-Anne Powers remembers her excitement when she learned that choreographer Jennifer Archibald was coming to set a new work. But during Archibald’s full-company casting call, Powers felt suddenly wracked with nerves. “I completely lost my focus,” she reme...

There’s nothing like witnessing Takumi Miyake fully unleashed onstage. In Alexei Ratmansky’s Serenade After Plato’s Symposium last fall at New York City’s Lincoln Center, the American Ballet Theatre soloist blazed onstage in a large circle of chaîné turn...