By Maggie Foyer Siphesihle November, who left South Africa at age 11 to follow his dream, returned to dance Romeo with Cape Town City Ballet at Artscape Opera House on August 25. The return to his homeland required the generosity of sponsors and the coordinating of busy timetables for Cape Town City Ballet and the
By Elaine Gaertner For Joysanne Sidimus, the path to becoming a repetiteur for the George Balanchine repertoire began in 1969 while she was a principal dancer with the newly formed Pennsylvania Ballet. That’s when she first staged Serenade, a ballet she had performed numerous times as a corps member with New York City Ballet, and
By Rachel Silver Maddock Moving into an independent career is a big shift, and three of Canada’s high-profile dance companies — Ballet BC, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, and the National Ballet of Canada — offer artist-in-residence positions to support former dancers in transition. Though the role at the three companies varies, the overall