Léa Fleytoux on the rise

for Pointe Magazine

Everyone has been noticing ABT's Léa Fleytoux lately. She was poignant in last year's Woolf Works, as "Young Clarissa." And this year she was amazingly light and sharp in the Peasant Pas de Deux in Giselle, with Jake Roxander, in what felt like luxury casting. You could imagine her as a Giselle one day (and Roxander as Albrecht). Fleytoux's dancing has acquired a new amplitude and lyricism; it already had finesse and delicacy. And she's a smart dancer as well—she knows just what to ask in rehearsal to make everything work better. I wrote this cover story about her for Pointe Magazine; it is in the July issue, with photos by Emma Zordan.

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