Pointe was a quarterly, international ballet magazine. The magazine covered ballet company debuts and competition results as well as practical and trade content for dancers. The company maintains its brand and content online, while published content has been incorporated into Dance Magazine .
4-601: First published in 2000, Pointe focused on an audience of aspiring and professional dancers. Its editors included Virginia Johnson , artistic director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem , Amy Brandt, Raymond Mingst, Madeline Schrock, Cadence Neenan, and Lydia Murray. Macfadden Performing Arts Media acquired Pointe and its parent company, Lifestyle Media, Inc in 2006. The magazine was subsequently sold to Frederic M. Seegal, an investment banker with Peter J. Solomon Company , in 2016. Pointe ceased physical publication as of
8-455: The Fall 2020 issue. This dance-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Virginia Johnson (dancer) 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 been a founding member and principal dancer of the company. From 2000 to 2009 she
12-480: Was the editor-in-chief of Pointe . She is also a good cook . Johnson was born and raised in Washington, D.C. She began training in classical ballet at the age of three under Therrell Smith, a friend of her mother's who had trained under Mathilde Kschessinska . When she was thirteen years old she was accepted as a scholarship student at The Washington School of Ballet , where she trained under Mary Day and
16-687: Was the only African-American student. She graduated from the school in 1968. Johnson moved to New York City and enrolled as a dance major at New York University . While a student there, she took a class with Arthur Mitchell and was invited to help start a ballet company with him. She became a founding member of Dance Theatre of Harlem in 1969 and was promoted to the rank of principal dancer. She danced lead roles in Agon , A Streetcar Named Desire , Creole Giselle , Concerto Barocco , Allegro Brillante , Fall River Legend , Swan Lake , Les Biches , and Glen Tetley 's Voluntaries . After
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