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Pointe was launched in 2000 as a quarterly, international ballet magazine and was converted from print to a digital magazine in 2020. The magazine covers news [1] on ballet company premieres, established and rising ballet stars, ballet competition results, career and training advice as well as guides for pre-professional training programs and dance higher education programs.
Virginia Johnson (born 1950) is an American ballet dancer, choreographer and journalist. She retired in 2023 as the artistic director of Dance Theatre of Harlem, having served as a founding member and principal dancer.
The magazine's editorial perspective strives to bridge scholarly writing and popular accessibility by preserving an attitude of intellectual rigor without abstruseness or academic jargon. [3] The Point , according to its statement of purpose, “is for anybody who is frustrated with the intellectual poverty of the majority of today's journalism ...
En pointe dancers employ pointe technique to determine foot placement and body alignment. When exhibiting proper technique, a dancer's en pointe foot is placed so that the instep is fully stretched with toes perpendicular to the floor, and the pointe shoe's platform (the flattened tip of the toe box) is square to the floor, so that a substantial part of its surface is contacting the floor.
In 2018 she was featured in Dance Magazine's "On the Rise" and was the March/April (digital) cover of Pointe Magazine in 2021. [8] [9] During the pandemic lockdown, when live performances were canceled, Ryan was featured in Sylvia Pas de deux and the Rubies pas de deux from Balanchine's Jewels for PNB's digital season. [10] [11]
When training resumed in-person in the fall, artistic director Peter Boal agreed to allow Edwards to take the professional pointe classes. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] In December 2020, Edwards danced en pointe with Ballet22, a gender and sexuality-inclusive dance company created by Roberto Vega Ortiz and Theresa Knudson.
He was named one of Dance magazine's "25 to Watch" in 2014 [8] and an Outstanding Male Dancer in Dance Europe for the 2013–2014 season. He was also on the cover of October/November 2016 issue of Pointe magazine. [9] [2] Dunn joined the Boston Ballet as a soloist in 2017 and was promoted to principal dancer in 2018. [1]
Kathryn Elizabeth Morgan was born on August 17, 1988, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. [3] She was adopted. [4] After completing a 23andMe genetic test, Morgan discovered she was of one hundred percent European descent with mostly British, Irish, French, German and Scandinavian ancestry.