Pointe Magazine

Chatting with Lucien Postlewaite, it’s immediately apparent that he’s a deep thinker. The Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancer has done a lot of introspection and self-reflection—skills that he now imparts to others through his

How can we think about the future if there is no planet Earth?

This is the foundational question that struck BalletX artistic director Christine Cox while pondering the future of the United States. Last year, Cox had been asked to envision a new forward-looking ballet for a program celebrating America’s 250th at Philadelphia’s Highmark Mann Center for the Performing...

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

At Ballet West, Rylee Ann Rogers has been promoted to first soloist; Nicole Fannéy, William Lynch

Diana Byer has decided to, as her younger students might say, “get on the apps.” Byer is the founder and former artistic director of New York Theatre Ballet and is regarded as a master teacher of the Cecchetti method. She studied for 20 years with the British ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher Margaret Craske (1892–19...

Juggling ballet and a second job isn’t unusual, but Cassidy Cocke has taken her part-time side gigs to next-level mastery. The Los Angeles Ballet dancer is responsible for a variety of creative production tasks as assistant to the editor-in-chief of