Q&A with Principal Dancer Elizabeth Murphy

Little mortal jump was the ballet that made me fall in love with contemporary works. I feel fortunate to have been pushed outside my comfort zone and discover a whole new world of dance that has continued to bless and enriched my career. Being a hard worker doesn’t mean you have to be hard on yourself. […]

Answering Nutcracker FAQs

We’re glad you asked! A random sampling of ballet FAQs. Not at all! There is probably no another ballet that has been performed so many times, in so many different ways. From your neighborhood dance studio to a professional company, the skill of the dancers and scale of the production varies as much as interpretations […]

Q&A: Peter Boal talks Red Angels

Knowing the late choreographer Ulysses Dove created Red Angels on our Artistic Director (then a New York City Ballet principal dancer) Peter Boal, we were eager for an inside look. We asked him to reveal the process behind Red Angels – both as a dancer and a staging artist. Peter Boal: We became very close to Ulysses during the multi-week process […]

Q&A: Giselle Designer Jérôme Kaplan

Peter Boal’s radiant staging of Giselle returns with all-new scenery and costumes by award-winning designer Jérôme Kaplan (above) who is best known to PNB audiences for his designs for Don Quixote, Roméo et Juliette. Q: What steps were critical to your process in creating designs for sets and costumes for PNB’s Giselle? A: I definitely think that the most critical […]