Pointeworks Spotlights Women in Ballet, Onstage and Off - Pointe Magazine

Pointeworks Spotlights Women in Ballet, Onstage and Off - Pointe Magazine

When Texas Ballet Theater dancer Sophie Williams founded the nonprofit ballet company Pointeworks, her goal was to bring dancers from various companies together during their layoffs. “I wanted to make a company that was really dancer-first and where we could collaborate together,” says Williams. She also wanted to place the creativity of women at the forefront. “I never danced work by a female choreographer for the first eight years of my career…