WASHINGTON — She donned a sneaky disguise so that the Kennedy Center audience wouldn’t freak out, knowing a ballet legend was sitting in its midst. It was the best way for Julie Kent — a Bethesda ...
Julie Kent was the latest of American Ballet Theatre's ballerinas to undertake what may be the most grueling of roles in all ballet--that of Odette/Odile in Swan Lake. Those who have watched Ms. Kent ...
“When I was very young, back in Hungary in the ballet school, my teacher showed us a VHS with Julie Kent,” Zoltan Boros, a dancer with Columbia Classical Ballet, told me. “I didn’t know her, and I ...
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Movie-goers will recognize Julie Kent for her big-screen role in the 2000 film "Center Stage." Ballet aficionados know her as one of the most accomplished dancers of all time. Next year, she makes ...
WASHINGTON (ABC7) — The Washington Ballet Theatre officially opens its new season in October. At the helm of the company is a woman who is known as one of the premier dancers in America, Julie Kent.
Julie Kent has a familiar face, though some Houstonians can't quite place how they know her. One shopper recently approached Kent at Blue Mercury, a local beauty boutique, to say, "You look like my ...
WASHINGTON — She first performed it with Mikhail Baryshnikov in New York. Now, renowned ballerina Julie Kent stages her first season of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” as the new artistic director of ...
NEW YORK — "You'll note," says Julie Kent, with a wry smile, "that I get the second hug, after the dog." The former ballerina has just walked into her Upper West Side apartment on a recent evening, ...
WASHINGTON — She first performed it with Mikhail Baryshnikov in New York. Kent, who took over for Septime Webre this summer along with her husband Victor Barbee as associate artistic director, humbly ...