- Joseph Phillips, the artistic director of Columbia Classical Ballet, has embraced a new structure and Russian techniques to elevate the company’s training and performances.
For Joseph Phillips, “Don Quixote” is a special ballet.
It was his first ballet, and the one that turned him from just an athletic Columbia kid to a dancer.
“It’s my first ballet, the first thing I ever danced, and I think it’s just a great, fun (and) funny ballet,” said Phillips who left home at age 14 to get the dancing training he couldn’t receive growing up in Columbia…