These images document Pointeworks’ recent performances, residencies, and outreach initiatives across San Diego, New York City, and Southern California. Together, they reflect our core mission: commissioning new choreography, employing professional artists during traditionally unpaid seasons, and expanding public access to high-caliber contemporary ballet.
From fully staged performances to open rehearsals, mentorship programs, and interdisciplinary collaborations with museums and community partners, Pointeworks creates spaces where artists and audiences engage directly in the creative process. The photographs below offer a visual snapshot of the scale, rigor, and community impact of our work.
Pointeworks Artistic Impact & Community Engagement
Open Rehearsal event at New York City Center with Dancers and Musicians
Free pre-performance talk, and outreach initiative to engage audiences on a deeper level, and bring them behind the scenes in the work they are about to experience.
Open Rehearsal event at New York City Center with Dancers Kyle Torres-Hiyoshi and Heather Nichols
Showing the rehearsal and coaching process during our open pay-what-you-can Dance Dialogue Event at New York City Center
In Studio rehearsal with live music
Dancers in rehearsal with choreographer Jacquelyn Long at Baryshnikov Arts Center
Pianist Joshua Mhoon; showing our commitment to Classical music collaboration
Dancers in rehearsal with choreographer Jacquelyn Long at Baryshnikov Arts Center
Mentorship program 2025, students taking class with the company
Rehearsal onstage at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla
Dance Dialogue Event - An evening that brought together 8 women across Dance, Leadership, Music and Choreography to discuss the current landscape for female-artists. Co-hosted with Dance Data Project
Company Class onstage at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater
Open rehearsal event, pay-what-you-can structure, inviting audiences in to experience the rehearsal process
Composer Katie Jenkins and pianist Joshua Mhoon rehearsing in studio with the dancers
Company Class onstage at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater
One Way Line; a new ballet commissioned in Season 2
Season 1 Campaign photo and the cover to our short Dance Film "The Tides", premiered internationally at film festivales
Dancers in rehearsal at Baryshnikov Arts Center
Post-performance meet-the dancers events
Pointeworks rehearsal captured by Doug Micminimy and currently displayed at the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts
Choreographer Laine Habony interviewing about her new creation Chasing Shadows, to share behind the scenes with audiences digitally
Mentorship program, the mentees watching the company dress rehearsal
Meet the Artists conversation at an in-studio event
The Von Enck sisters shared the stage together for the first time under Pointeworks Season 2 performance. Principal dancers with New York City Ballet and Texas Ballet Theater, Pointeworks gave them the opportunity to dance together for the first time in their professional careers.
Dancers performing Reka Gyulai's Transcendence at the Conrad Theater, La Jolla June 2025
Dancers in company class
Season 1 in rehearsal with Reka Gyulai for Pointeworks' first commissioned ballet, Off Beat
Meraki premiere at the Conrad Theater
Choreographer DaYoung Jung in studio creating her new ballet for Season 2
Season 1 in rehearsal with Reka Gyulai for Pointeworks' first commissioned ballet, Off Beat
Season 1 Floreciente performance at the Conrad Theater
Composer's Circle Event led by award-winning composer Katie Jenkins, taking the audience into the details of the music and revealing her second commissioned score for Pointeworks.
Greeting audiences post-performance at the Conrad, La Jolla
In company rehearsal, June 2025
In company rehearsal, June 2025
Pointeworks has commissioned works from 5 female costume designers
Dancers and pianist taking bow after standing ovation at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
Pointeworks Season 2 Campaign Photo
Choreographer Heather Nichols in rehearsal in Solana Beach, CA creating her work Meraki
pay-what-you-can Open Rehearsal, featuring dancer Ingrid Silva
Composer's Circle event, dialogue with musicians and composers on their new works and collaborations.
Director of Media, Alexander Sargent capturing rehearsals
Greeting the audience post-performance in Irvine
Dancers in rehearsal with choreographer Jacquelyn Long at Baryshnikov Arts Center
Dancers rehearsing a new ballet in Solana Beach studios for Season 1
Rehearsal with dancers and pianist for Carousel - in studio at Ballet Arte
