Bridget sat on the toilet lid, lacquering her nails with ballet pink, the radio perched behind her on top of the tank. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Maybe...if you take ballet lessons,” Teacher Sarah answered. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the word came around that a woman was offering ballet lessons, I showed up, with three other young girls. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Listen, now, I know this might sound strange, but that girl there"—I pointed at Belet—"is really good at ballet." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I wore jeans, a large gray T-shirt, and steel-toed boots; the other girls wore black leotards and sheer, shimmering skirts, white tights and tiny ballet shoes the color of taffy. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Though I still think those ballerina costumes from Swan Lake would look lovely—” “No ballet!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But Hugo just kept twirling and twisting and heaving, a violent ballet that sent as many imps as pounced on him careening across the basement. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to hang out at the ballet studio with Mom. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“There is the meeting in the afternoon regarding next season’s ballet schedule.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We paid for the entire year of ballet classes back in the fall,” Mom explains. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even when Stravinsky borrowed from Russian ethnic folk music, which he did in several of his Diaghilev ballet scores, he did so in order to distort it through some mischievous prism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

If it weren’t for the ropes and the sacks it could be a kind of dance, a ballet, caught by flash-camera: midair. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demigods backed toward the water, shouting insults about ballet—which was kind of a challenge, as Percy didn’t know much about it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I nodded and opened the car door with my foot, then slid it back into my new purple ballet flat. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’m glad Malia can keep doing ballet, but I wish I could still take piano lessons. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Both music and the colourful ritual of ballet thrived at the French court under Lully and Louis XIV who built upon the musical patronage of his predecessors. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She was as trim as a ballet dancer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I had a passion for ballet, I now found that I loved all kinds of dancing. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she knew because along with tennis, ballet, and diving lessons at the “Y”, she had taken art appreciation lessons last year. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very soon, in any case, a new Italian sound was to dominate European music once again, leaving both the French opera and ballet styles in its wake. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I pointed the new black ballet flats Daddy had bought me toward the windows, holding the arches of my feet, feeling the stretch in my sleepy hamstrings. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“No,” he said, “I’m afraid we couldn’t. That sounds too much like chorus girls or ballet dancers, and these birds are pretty serious. I don’t think they’d like it.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined spiderwebs in my bones and turned my palm towards the moon, watching the ballet of bones between my elbow and wrist twist to make it so. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Since—since I’m making such good progress, with the recovery and everything...do you think...when you said, ‘Before you know it, we’ll have you back in ballet school,’ what did that mean? The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I expect the stupid boy to shout “Aliens!” again, but instead a girl wearing pink ballet tights raises her hand. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When her eyes open, she sighs and says, “Everything smells so good, Mrs. Hameed. It’s like chicken and mashed potatoes decided to dance a ballet with your spice cabinet. What are you making?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We had to jump over them, to avoid getting our ballet slippers wet. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to turn my tennis shoes into ballet slippers, but with no success. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Otis looked like the world’s largest, grumpiest ballet dancer. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t want to be a ballet dancer. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most people wouldn’t have this kind of reaction to a sloth in a monocle doing ballet, she knew. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I have already seen her at diving lessons, another ballet recital, practicing piano, and now I see her running across a field kicking a soccer ball. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Dwarf feet are designed for spadework, not for the delicate intricacies of ballet dancing or balancing on wooden steps. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Even though The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring ballets all have narrative threads, Stravinsky played against this tendency in his scores for them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She chose the gaudiest one there—four-inch-high ballet dancers in purple tutus, their pink legs pirouetting on a greenish four- in-hand. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

But breakdancing wasn’t like ballet; it wasn’t something you could look up in the yellow pages. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The type of story that everyone loves to see in ballets or books or movies but hates to hear about in real life. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were taking ballet lessons; Mona wanted to be a ballerina. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kiara, who hadn’t really been into ballet, cheered as well, admiring her new friend’s talents. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In modern English the distinction is clear: going to the ballet is an experience; the Large Hadron Collider is an experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Very good. Now, do you know the ballet studio just around the corner from your home?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She rarely danced for her family and they in turn often forgot that she had taken ballet lessons up until the time she married Lieutenant Meecham. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In ballet studios, open trays of crushed resin are usually set aside for the dancers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It made great leaps without half trying, like a dancer in a ballet. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been going around with New York City girls in ballet flats, taking them to Chinese food and out to see bands. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The pages were serving the food with the formal movements of a ballet Wine bottles were being placed on the tables, but ale, being less respectable, was being put beneath. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m bad in school. I spend most of my time in ballet. But I’m not tall enough for that. Have you ever been not tall enough for anything?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sasha stood in the hallway outside Department 11, wearing a vest, button-up shirt, and bow tie paired with a long skirt and ballet flats. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He held his hands out, palms turning upwards in a slow ballet of bone, marrow intact after all this time, under the crowded sky, against the broken ground. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The children in the class study without interest, wishing they could be at ballet or softball practice instead. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cells of all sorts are commonly likened to biochemical factories, busy ferments in which dozens of mechanisms are working away in complex sequences that are half Rube Goldberg, half ballet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I know you know what ballet is, but just in case you don't, it's tip-top, tiptoe, total body control. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Mama, look! I think this is a ballet movie,” I said in my heavily accented English. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you think it’s over, then? My time in ballet?” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When it came time for my first ballet lesson, I dreaded wearing a leotard. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he’d really keep me from ballet until I raised my GPA. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But on Day Six her voice cracked as she told me about my last ballet recital. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“No, I cannot teach ballet, but I have a book about ballet at my parents’ home in Freetown. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I traced my finger along the ballet bar set against the mirrors. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We were rehearsing for the showcase when our ballet teacher had us join hands to form a circle. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing we didn’t do together was ballet. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, when my mother was at the supermarket next door to the dance school, I ran out of ballet class with blood pouring out of my mouth. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the Ballet Comique de la Reine can be viewed as a significant landmark not just in the history of ballet, but also in that of instrumental music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He taught us real ballet steps and let us make up our own combinations. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can close my eyes right now and see it, like some blurring ballet—beautiful! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I still think a ballet would be perfect, you know, while Armageddon is going on.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’ll stand on the blocks hidden in the toes of my satin ballet slippers, pink ribbons sewn into my calves, and rise above up in the air: magical. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She had been dancing ballet for three years, and I admired her. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I first began taking ballet classes, we used to dance with colorful scarves. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And his father striding up — underwater, he has turned boneless, a ballet dancer. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the ballet, in operas, on the concert stage, lilting, driving, whirling, tiptoeing, leaping, gliding, jumping, gyrating and twirling, Russian music can’t get enough of it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They are like ballet dancers entirely unaware they are on stage. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuck with that class for several more weeks, but the time we spent on ballet grew shorter as the time we spent on tap grew longer. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day I went off to ballet class wearing the pink cap-sleeved leotard with the low neckline. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I noticed that we spent only twenty minutes on ballet, and forty minutes on tap. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She supported the Lockhart Chamber Orchestra and took us once a year to the ballet in Austin. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They’d both been in the same ballet class when they were five years old. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

By this definition, though, going to the ballet is an experiment, while learning that the seats are uncomfortable and the drinks sold in the bar overpriced is a chance experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When I began physical therapy a few months ago, Mr. Lawson said that it would be unlikely for me to return to ballet lessons this school year. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were dancing shoes—real ballet slippers, not just what Adelaide had, but the kind they have in books, the kind where you can wrap the ribbon around your ankles. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Likewise, extended dance forms such as ballet didn’t become separated from storylines until the mid-twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I remember growing older, growing taller, growing stronger, all while attending ballet. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Too soon the ballet half of class was done, and we were instructed to put on our tap shoes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ballet powerfully evoked these two colliding worlds. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The following year I started to take ballet and other types of dance at a school closer to my home in New Jersey. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, when she saw June near Annie Demetrios’s drippy neon painting of a ballet dancer in a leg cast, her stomach flipped and flopped and then started running a marathon around her body. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“We were just doing water ballet,” Clementine says lamely. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They start out with ballet and move on to disco, and then break-dancing, before the subway cops catch on. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Usually I have a piano lesson at the same time as Malia’s ballet class. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

At least she can still go to ballet class and on a sleepover at her friend’s house. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He expects a play or perhaps a ballet, but the performance is something he finds unusual. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

No. Marigold tightened her bracelet more securely around her wrist and pressed on, stretching her toes to their tippy-tips and arching her arms above her head to figure out if her Talent was ballet dancing. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But when she stood on her head, in graceful water ballet, pulling her bikini bottom to her knees—ah, then it was the eel’s moment to shock. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Soojin gets four stars on every song when she and I play together, but she’s been studying ballet, tap, and jazz since she was six. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I can’t see Nick’s face, but he taps the toe of his sneaker against her ballet flat. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Just days before my fifth birthday, my mother took me to Philadelphia to register me for ballet lessons at the Rock School for Dance Education. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, look for picture books that summarize the plot of a famous opera or ballet. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Much to my disappointment, only one half of the session was ballet, and the other half was tap. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had nothing against tap, but I wanted the whole session to be ballet. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent at least a quarter of an hour on each ballet- dancing figurine. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It is hard to imagine what twentieth- century classical music would have done without ballet. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She has a gentle, graceful way of floating around, from years of ballet lessons. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All of your ballet recital videos allowed us to digitally measure every centimeter of you.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Partly it was my reputation, and partly Laura’s ballet style of dancing that helped to turn the spotlight—and the crowd’s attention—to us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she drew this feeling, it would be softly flowing waves the color of a delicate pink ballet slipper. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They pressed together, thighs, groins, stomachs, like slow-motion, enchanted ballet dancers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some people just don’t like ballet,” he said, smiling. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

With Beaujoyeulx, Catherine conceived what have come to be accepted as the world’s first formal ballets. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dorn had practiced ballet for most of her life and still moved as if dancing. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

"You were great, by the way. Those ballet lessons have really paid off." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You can pay for ballet but not piano?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was a brutal ballet on ice, exhilarating, breathtaking, but elsewhere, in the real world, it was raw, devastating violence. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I no longer spoke Krio, not even to my sister, because Mama had promised to sign me up for ballet lessons as soon as I could understand and speak English. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time she would bring her own ballet shoes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I always had fun at my ballet school. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Someday she would like to go to the ballet. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the foreground, black silhouettes, the two boys and Joe’s cousin, moved in a lazy kind of athletic ballet. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What followed was as carefully produced as a ballet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Caught in midair, like a ballet dancer, defying gravity. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

To be a castaway is to be caught in a harrowing ballet of circles. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Turning around, she places one foot at a right angle to the other, as in ballet position, and clasps her hands. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Soojin has jazz and ballet classes twice a week after school, and any chance she has she leaps down the empty hallways at school. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Watched his mother perform a kind of ballet. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

My voice still sounds thick as I say, “But all of my friends are from ballet. All of them. I don’t h-have anyone in my middle school.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’m currently going through a dance and ballet craze and am diligently practicing my dance steps every evening. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He commissioned the unknown, untested Igor Stravinsky to provide music for one of the new ballets, The Firebird. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mia and I tried on our new leotards, tights, and ballet slippers the second we arrived home. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was cool. I want to be a writer, too. And a ballet dancer. I’m going to write stories and make ballets about them.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He walked like a crab, side to side, and probably if he had wanted to be a ballet dancer, he would have been doomed to a miserable life of endless frustration. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Someone in the audience yelled, “A sloth in a dress doing ballet!” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We pushed our torsos together in a sort of ballet. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

To emphasise the intended awe and majesty of the occasion, Louis XIV’s long, mythological ballets would begin with a self-contained instrumental introduction, or opening. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I was totally shocked and thrilled when I was accepted into the Level 2 ballet class...the first pointe class. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a red-and-white-checked dress, with frilly white socks and black ballet flats. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Suzanne Slenn, my ballet teacher, said, “You were fortunate to have been born with naturally great extension and talent. I expect more of you because of that.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were the friends who’d held me together, dropping off groceries when I was too busy to shop, picking up the girls for ballet when I was behind on work or just needing a break. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In a cruel irony, ballet commentators back in Russia were irked by Western reviews of the Stravinsky- Nijinsky ballets, which used adjectives such as 'barbaric’, ‘primitive’, ‘wild’ or ‘savage’ in almost every paragraph. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I pause and then ask, “What about Malia’s ballet classes? Does she have to quit those, too?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was raised in the theater, sitting in boxes at the ballet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Plus, we could do some dance moves as were escaping. Perhaps a ballet number!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“She wanted a charm bracelet. With ballet slippers, a heart, and a shamrock for luck.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I’d love to give you ballet lessons. But...they cost money, and...” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The woman in this picture is a ballet dancer.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to the ballet, to the opera, to the theater. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the terrace stood a statue of Bacchus in a sort of ballet position, wearing nothing but a loincloth, his cheeks puffed out and lips pursed, spouting water into a fountain. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Padva to join her for tea or accompany her to the ballet are politely declined. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It cracked the top shelf, swept the beige, finger-size ceramic figurines of ballet dancers in various contorted postures to the hard floor and then landed after them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A half hour later, we drop Malia off at the ballet studio to meet her friend and her mom. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It is too late an hour for their destination to be the theater or the ballet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She is a fiend for aesthetics with an eye for fashion that is both unique and coveted, and provides her with a sizable income since her retirement from the ballet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Soojin slips her black ballet flats back on and looks at me. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Yet no matter how much fun I had in those classes, ballet was my first love. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conversation that follows involves more creative coercion than outright job offer, and there are several deviations into the subjects of the ballet, modern fashion, and Japanese mythology. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was happy to have this ballet movie, especially because we had lost a piece of luggage on our return trip from Africa. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we’ll see a different ballet later in the season,” Mama promised. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she lowered it back to the floor as lightly as a ballet dancer. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She opened up the box and unfolded the tissue paper inside to find a pair of pink ballet shoes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I started ballet lessons when I was four years old. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I dance because the lessons are paid for and Papa feels all girls should dance ballet and tap. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hated it. They didn’t teach enough ballet. I wanted to pirouette.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ballet teacher reflected in the mirror clutched her throat as if Belet was about to launch herself at her. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see Margie in attendance, but she later told me that when she first saw the ballet’s depiction of the Reign of Terror, “it hit me in the stomach.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Kids who sing in the choir, learn to play the violin, and take gymnastics or ballet or swimming lessons after school. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

After showing us the first three ballet positions she sat down to rest. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Belet's pirouette completed, she slowly lowered her foot like a ballet dancer. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The ballet was as beautiful and otherworldly as any recounting of that story ever is, with its prince in a moonlit forest and its swirling pageantry of sweets. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The artwork on the cover is of a young bronze-skinned girl in a black leotard, standing at the barre in a ballet studio. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

That in addition to fewer and shorter physical therapy visits, it’s possible I could return to ballet as soon as the summer. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Now, let’s go build up your strength for these hikes. And before you know it, we’ll have you back in ballet school.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Soon I was begging for those ballet lessons that Mama had promised me in the hotel room in Ghana. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel a familiar pang in my chest as I think about Eva, who’s going to a ballet program in Chicago. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Dramatic black-and-white portraits of Hattie’s mother in various ballet productions line the hallway, along with a procession of Hattie’s school photos. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Would it be possible for me to return to ballet in the spring? The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Get your grades up. Get your act together. Or we won’t send you back to ballet, even after your knee is all healed. These are your options. The choice is yours.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Tchaikovsky’s ballet scores are still among the most popular pieces in the classical repertoire. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And, while the corps de ballet pirouettes and leaps across the stage, Tim breaks his magician’s code and tells me exactly how the trick is done. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Zach called it hippie ballet, but I thought it was kind of graceful and athletic. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Um”—under her seat she moved her left foot forward so the heel touched on the arch of the right—“can I take ballet lessons?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, the Foundation has organized lectures, discussions, and excursions to the opera and the ballet. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She already has her ballet outfit on—a pink leotard, pink tights, and a pink tutu. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I only have the girls from ballet, who I never even see anymore, and who don’t go to my school. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s a ballet studio,” I said, suddenly recognizing the familiar shapes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mama explained that dancing ballet was like reading a book. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the ballet Papa said, “What did you think about that, girls?” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel’s feet in the soft pink ballet slippers felt borrowed, like she would have to give them back. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And then, in a messier scrawl, I write: My ballet school has always been my sanctuary. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The dancelike pose of Apollo and graceful torsion of Daphne create the impression that they are moving in a carefully choreographed ballet. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music school is right next to the ballet school. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In his joie de vivre, Mathieu hosts a ballet as a show of diplomatic good will. ‘Kompromat’ Review: Escape From Siberia 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

At The Village Voice, were you encouraged to concentrate on small-scale new works, on big-league ballet, on the whole spread or what? She’s Been Writing About Dance for 55 Years. She’s Not Done Yet. 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

His idiosyncrasies — the crooked-back arms with which his swan-maidens depart from ballet convention, for example, or the scrolling arm movements for the three crustaceans — don’t enrich the experience. Dance Review: Christopher Williams Works at Dance New Amsterdam 2010-06-09T00:18:00Z

The episode, which takes her story to a darker place, is unflagging in its attempt to include every ballet stereotype, most predominantly, that all the women in ballet are victims. A Ballet Scandal Gets the ‘Special Victims Unit’ Treatment 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

In considering Williams’ water ballets, the fairest comparison would be not to Fred and Ginger or Eleanor Powell, but to the ensemble dances devised by Busby Berkeley for such Warner Bros. Bathing Beauty: The Wet and Wild Life of Esther Williams 2013-06-13T15:28:43Z

The second act of “Swan Lake” brims over with loving jokes about ballet conventions and the layerings of men behaving like women behaving like men. Dance Review: Les Ballets Trockadero at the Joyce Theater 2012-12-19T22:32:27Z

The company’s winter season opened on Tuesday with an all-Balanchine program, and over the next six weeks it will dance 27 ballets, 12 of them by Balanchine. Dance Review: Reintroductions on a Winter?s Eve 2011-01-19T23:23:54Z

So close to being corny, the ballet still works today for a clutch of reasons. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at City Center 2012-10-17T22:19:58Z

He has projects lined up, including a new setting of Jerome Robbins’s experimental ballet “Watermill” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in late October. Joaquin De Luz, City Ballet’s Bravura Sparkler, Says Goodbye 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

This is a way for me to tell people about this great choreographer, the composers and ballet dancers whose names are not popular today in wide society.” Balanchine and Toumanova, in a Teenager’s Eyes 2012-07-19T23:27:56Z

I had never seen flamingos in the wild and marveled at their staccato ballet, long legs emerging from a salt pond. In France, Narbonne takes a turn in the international spotlight 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

He’s always been fortunate, he said, to have Black mentors and colleagues, but recognizes that in ballet beyond Richmond that’s not always the case. In Richmond, Black Dance Claims a Space Near Robert E. Lee 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

See also The Mariinsky ballet is the other big Russian company. The Bolshoi ballet: a step-by-step guide to dance 2010-07-20T11:18:00Z

A military corps, a marching band, a cheer squad, a corps de ballet: How different are they, really? Review: In ‘Corps,’ Running Aspirational Dance Drills 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

That those brides constitute a corps de ballet is a good ballet joke. Dance Review: Susan Stroman’s ‘Double Feature,’ With City Ballet 2012-05-25T21:17:12Z

The country’s premier ballet company, which has defined grace, speed and precision since the days of its co-founder George Balanchine, is now also a stage for the era’s #MeToo convulsions. Vulgar Texts and Dancer Turmoil Force City Ballet to Look in the Mirror 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Scottish Ballet has commissioned a brand new ballet from Elo, set to music by Mozart and Steve Reich. Edinburgh festival 2011: Soak it up! 2011-07-17T20:29:01Z

Many of the most important classical ballets were looking like pretty little items of confectionery. Taking the Pulse of New York City Ballet Without Peter Martins 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

The dance included ballet basics, as well as choreography of their own design, like back bridges and diva poses. The Youngest (and Liveliest) ‘Nutcracker’ Audience of the Season 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

He made ballet scores and opera, borrowed his backing singers from Steve Reich's ensemble, did arranging work for Suzanne Vega, Mike Oldfield, even Desperate Housewives. Peter Gordon, New York's king of disco 2010-04-23T14:19:00Z

Perhaps most importantly, the class allows students to imagine the ballet through movement — to experience aspects of the work through their own bodies. Studying ‘The Nutcracker,’ Students Listen, Touch, Move Like Snow 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z

Her workday had begun at 10 with a two-hour morning ballet class and ended at 7 after a full day of back-to-back rehearsals. Wendy Whelan Says Farewell to City Ballet 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

His own choreography embraces both the grace and line of ballet and the weight and purposefulness of modern dance. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

There are long sections, more interesting than they might be, on the making of his best ballets, and his worst. A New Biography of George Balanchine, Ballet’s Colossus 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z

In 1998, Dance magazine anointed him one of five male ballet dancers to watch. Benjamin Millepied Leaps Into the Spotlight 2011-02-02T23:36:06Z

This program, to be hosted by the principal dancer Daniel Ulbricht, will be an exploration of ballet through the centuries, including excerpts from “Swan Lake” and from a contemporary interpretation of a Western classic. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 16-22 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

This ballet, first staged in 1856 in Paris, has become a triumph of textual corruption. Critic?s Notebook: Bolshoi Sends Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Corsaire? Into Cinemas 2012-03-12T22:19:26Z

The report focused on changes to the repertory, school admissions process and racial and ethnic makeup of the ballet company. Gustavo Dudamel, Superstar Conductor, Will Lead Paris Opera 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

Two years ago, I visited Saratoga Springs to see the world premiere of Justin Peck’s first professional ballet. City Ballet Presents a Lyrical Program in Saratoga 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Her combination of fierceness and classical ballet technique in that film set her up for combat roles to come. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

She moved in with relatives in the Bronx and describes a heady time of bodegas, subways, public school and intimidating ballet instructors. Chita Rivera on Love, Showbiz and All That Jazz 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

The ballet, one of the oldest surviving Romantic ballets, is after August Bournonville’s 1836 production for the Royal Danish Ballet, where Mr. Martins trained and danced before he joined City Ballet in 1970. ArtsBeat: City Ballet’s 2014-15 Season to Feature Ballets by Peck, Scarlett and Ratmansky 2014-05-07T14:31:27Z

There is little in “Seasons’ Canon” to suggest an interest in movement innovation or in using the Opera dancers’ advanced ballet technique. Review: Paris Opera Ballet Kicks Off New Season With Futuristic Choreography 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

A few of the many Degas works featured in the show include his paintings of laundresses washing and ironing, sketches of debonair men with dubious intentions lurking backstage at the ballet and “The Absinthe Drinker.” For ‘Little Dancer’ set designer Beowulf Boritt, windows into the soul

A month after the Dutch world premiere, he was back in San Francisco, where he started a new job as one of that company’s ballet masters. The stylish imagination behind Christopher Wheeldon’s “Cinderella” 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

There’s no moment, as so often occurs with young ballet choreographers, when we spot Mr. Peck’s sources. Dance Review: Justin Peck’s ‘In Creases,’ by New York City Ballet 2012-07-17T22:06:52Z

The concentration on ballet was not the only anomaly in Stravinsky’s early career: there was also the fact that the Ballets Russes was a Russian company that never performed in Russia. Just How Russian Was Stravinsky? 2010-04-16T14:16:00Z

Hoover didn’t spend as much time with Balanchine as she would have liked — she joined the corps de ballet in 1980, and he died in 1983. School of American Ballet Appoints New Leaders 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

When you were starting out in A.B.T., you had real promise, but you didn’t rise beyond the corps de ballet. Retiring From Ballet Theater, a Dancer Gets What She Needs 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

A “ballet in the grand manner” was requested, and that is what he delivered, a scintillating encapsulation of imperial Russian classicism. Review: American Ballet Theater Recalls the Wide Range of Its Early Years 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Gergiev has also been questioned by some for taking the Mariinsky’s orchestra on tour, despite the ballet company’s outbreak. Russian Ballet Returned to the Stage. Then a Covid Outbreak Hit. 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

But a steady, deeper exploration of the suggestive powers of ballet and the well-tuned body — yes. Even Ravel’s ‘Bolero’ felt fresh: Washington Ballet season opener was that good 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

But after all this time a question remains: Is a predominantly black ballet company even necessary? Dance Review: Dance Theater of Harlem II at the Joyce Theater 2012-02-08T22:51:28Z

It was winter 2019, and conversations happening offstage and in the press about toxicity in the ballet world, particularly toxic masculinity, had altered my experience of ballets I love. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z

If I could control these matters, I would send all ballet students and dancers to study how “Company B” looks as danced by ballet companies and as by the Taylor company. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater 2012-03-19T22:18:43Z

They bring structure to the stage; like a corps de ballet, they complete the picture. What Do Dancers Bring to a Halftime Show? They Complete the Picture. 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Not to criticize ballet, but you have to be so single-minded.” Exchanging Slippers For Schoolbooks 2010-12-03T15:27:00Z

The company will perform an adaptation of the beloved ballet by Kirk Peterson, a former dancer with many companies, including ABT. Misty Copeland to make ‘Swan Lake’ debut with Washington Ballet

It's not just ballet which is seeking to entice arthouse audiences to don 3D glasses. Embracing 3D 2011-03-31T07:53:21Z

I’ve choreographed for ballet, but in this I don’t want grand ballet preparations. An Interview With Garth Fagan and Wynton Marsalis 2012-09-26T18:22:55Z

Jessa and other kids are trained in the rigorous Russian Vaganova ballet and are required to keep up with their academics in school. From a Manila slum emerges an unlikely ballerina 2012-12-26T08:31:04Z

This will be her second time performing the ballet with the company, but just as important as the first. A Ballerina’s Nightmare: ‘Am I More Than Just a Dancer?’ 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

As Mr. Serebrennikov himself notes in a program interview: “I am doing an exotic, probably nonexisting job. Perhaps I am the only ballet stage director around.” ‘Nureyev’ Opens at Bolshoi After Delay and Much Speculation 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

When Ms. Ashley retired from City Ballet as a principal in 1997 at the age of 46, she faced the problem nearly all ballet dancers face: How would she remake her life? Merrill Ashley Is in Focus at the Dance on Camera Festival 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

The season avoids the standard ballet clichés of familiar stories and displays of conventionally bravura technique. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Returns to City Center - Review 2011-11-09T22:54:34Z

When I asked Tatyana about the differences in the Russian and American approach to ballet, she explained that in Russia, ballerinas were as well-known as celebrities. Want to Feel Like a Russian Ballerina? Start With the Tutu 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

One of the production’s greatest strengths is its thoughtful integration of movement — Lopez Ochoa’s high-varnish, athletic style of contemporary ballet, gorgeously danced by the whole cast — with handsome design elements. Review: The Balletic Rise and Fall of Eva Perón 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z

It’s well known that Serge Diaghilev, the Russian ballet impresario, brought together some of the greatest artists of the early 20th century to modernize and revolutionize theater and dance with his Ballets Russes. Art Review: ‘Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes,’ at National Gallery 2013-05-23T20:40:40Z

Only one male and one female dancer can win the school’s competition for places at a prestigious ballet company — a quest that consumes the student body and turns the two women into ardent frenemies. ‘Birds of Paradise’ Review: Dirty Dancing 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Set to an easy-on-the ear score by Ezio Bosso and Vivaldi, the ballet is brilliantly vivid and varied in its deployment of seven couples, and particularly lovely in its setting of a radiantly hued grotto. Review: Premiere of Wheeldon’s ‘Strapless’ at the Royal Ballet 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Many New Yorkers saw the British ballet style as the divinely moderate yardstick by which they judged the different excellences of American and Russian styles. Royal Ballet Seeks Next Link 2011-04-24T00:48:54Z

Taking on these three touchstones of classical ballet is a considerable achievement for any company but especially one only 9 years old. L.A. Ballet rounds out Tchaikovsky trilogy with 'The Sleeping Beauty' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

In 2011 premieres by this Russian choreographer kept popping up all over the ballet map. Looking Back: Cunningham, Morris, Ratmansky, Hallberg and Cojocaru 2011-12-17T05:26:08Z

As an old-school ballet heroine, she is fated to die by the mandates of the art. Review | The ballerina who fights back: In ‘La Bayadere,’ she won’t be manhandled 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

“I discovered that it was much harder to sing when I did a full ballet class, with all the turning and jumping,” he explained. Robert Fairchild Crosses Back to Ballet, Gershwin in Tow 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Here she is shown coaching Margot Fonteyn, when the Royal Ballet first staged the ballet, in 1954, the year that Fonteyn took over from Genée as president of the Royal Academy of Dance. From the Music Hall to Ballet Royalty: A British Tale 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z

Both the opera and ballet provided archival materials to the film to create ambiance reflecting the 1980s period, according to Jon Finck, a spokesman for the opera. 'Steve Jobs' movie: A backstage look at a backstage drama 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

Also, I wanted to give the L.A.D.P. dancers some ballet to do onstage because they are actually really good ballet dancers. A Ballerina Harnesses Her Wild Imagination to Choreography 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z

More than any Sleepwalker I have seen, Ms. Taylor made me wish that the ballet’s old ending would be restored with her light traveling not just upstairs but up into the sky. Critic?s Notebook: A Season Brings New Faces and Insights to Classic Roles 2011-05-23T22:10:34Z

The gala opened with a dramatic excerpt from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet ballet and included the coronation scene from Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov, when the vast stage swarmed with peasants. Russia's new Mariinsky theatre woos the doubters 2013-05-02T20:36:35Z

But her memoir, “Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet,” does not skimp on what she calls “the crazy side of ballet.” Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z

As productions go, this version of Tchaikovsky’s ballet is not the prettiest feather in the flock. At New York City Ballet, Swans Use Grit to Find Glory 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Moving slowly through formal ballet poses, they are waiting, by implication, to replace whoever is dancing. Critic’s Notebook: William Forsythe Revival at Paris Opera Ballet 2012-12-28T21:15:47Z

And though the seven dancers possess years of expertise in ballet, modern and contemporary dance, the stamina required for “State of Darkness,” which runs at around 35 minutes, is off the charts. Seven Dance Stars Take On a Daring ‘Rite of Spring’ 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

“It’s important to be out there,” she said, “we are America’s national ballet company.” Susan Jaffe to Be Next Artistic Director at American Ballet Theater 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

When the choreographer Pam Tanowitz contemplated her commission for Works & Process at the Guggenheim, her first idea was a story ballet. Designed to Miss Their Connection 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z

And while the PNB trio, when interviewed, had yet to see the full ballet come together, they spoke with obvious pleasure about the challenges and rewards of the project. PNB turns old documents into a new 'Giselle' 2011-05-25T21:51:07Z

I had a sister who was taking violin lessons at the Harlem School of the Arts, and she said there was a black man there who was going to be teaching ballet. Dance Theater of Harlem: Arthur Mitchell’s Dream at 50 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

“But I’m also a big ballet fan. I was at ‘Don Quixote’ at the Royal Opera House last week.” Black Sabbath Ballet Turns Up the Volume on a Varied London Season 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z

"Her drive and passion were the inspiration for a career that touched thousands and her eye for talent and intelligence made her one of our most significant ballet exports to the world," he added. Royal Ballet School director dies 2014-04-30T10:12:58Z

He turns a coffee run into a street ballet as the opening credits roll. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

She studied both ballet and piano for 10 years, but also became a championship volleyball player, competing professionally with the Rio team. Step-by-step guide to dance: Deborah Colker 2010-04-14T10:14:00Z

The configurations for the corps de ballet are full of individualizing strokes as well as remarkable numerical and geometric shifts. Dance Review: Alexei Ratmansky’s ‘Symphony #9’ Has City Center Premiere 2012-10-20T02:30:07Z

Female choreographers remain rare in classical ballet, and Ms. Lovette knows it; she doesn’t want to coast. A Ballerina Steps Out — as a Choreographer 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Gerwig was raised in Sacramento, California, and planned to be a ballet dancer until she shot up and turned gangly. Greta Gerwig: ‘I don't need a man. I would have done all this anyway' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

A question for the future is whether there are enough opportunities for women to become ballet choreographers — a position for which there is no one career path. Breaking the Glass Slipper: Where Are the Female Choreographers? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

On Thursday, the Queensland Ballet in Australia suspended Mr. Scarlett, an artistic associate of the company, and canceled its planned productions of his ballet “Dangerous Liaisons,” The Australian newspaper reported. Royal Ballet Suspends Choreographer Over Sexual Misconduct Claims 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

"For me, writing was my ballet, in a sense," said Hall, who attended Cambridge University on scholarship. 'Billy Elliot' author talks about blending politics and artistic aspiration as tour comes to Seattle 2011-03-17T01:40:20Z

In Egypt, ballet recitals were mostly confined to private dance schools, often run by British teachers, where the students usually came from upper-middle-class families like Ms. Saleh’s. Magda Saleh, Influential Egyptian Ballerina, Is Dead at 79 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

When she opened a leg dramatically to one side, you saw the colossal aspect of ballet itself: it had a new force on the narrow stage of the concert hall space at Avery Fisher. Dance Review: Sara Mearns in Diverse Roles for ‘A Dancer’s Dream’ 2013-06-30T21:05:46Z

You automatically lose that transfixing “Introduction” to the second of the ballet’s three parts, a showcase of Ravel’s mastery with color and shade. Review | Yan Pascal Tortelier and the NSO find their own voices in ‘Daphnis et Chloé’ 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

As the Russian-born Ratmansky became one of the most acclaimed ballet choreographers in the world, the work became part of the international repertory, often discussed as one of the best ballets of the century. Art, Music and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Her ballet, and a celebration of its 40th birthday, was to be a highlight of the company’s spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House. How Natalia Makarova changed the ballet world with this landmark production 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

A ballet company today needs to lead with stories that connect and keep people interested in the classical tradition. Part of a Seismic Shift in Ballet, Hope Muir Takes on a Major Role 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

In the waltz, Wiesenthal found what she believed ballet had grown cold to — musicality. Dancing by Herself: When the Waltz Went Solo 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

The evening also recognized the centennial of Morton Gould, who composed the music for “Interplay” and “I’m Old Fashioned,” a deadly dull Robbins ballet from 1983. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center 2013-05-05T18:59:07Z

Figgins began her career at Dance Theater of Harlem, where she performed lead roles in George Balanchine’s “Four Temperaments” and “Agon,” among other ballets. Ballet Tech Names a New Artistic Director 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

I researched the White City in down moments, when Amy was teaching in the late afternoons or on the weekends when Sky was at ballet or art class. Goodbye, iPhone. Farewell, Brooklyn. Let’s move to Honduras and camp with jaguars 2013-01-05T20:00:00Z

The ballet ends as it begins, with Blanche beneath a naked bulb. Scottish Ballet's 'A Streetcar Named Desire' gives muscle to female characters 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

In the event, he carried the whole ballet; and that face shone like a lamp. Review: City Ballet’s Spring Season Includes ‘N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz’ 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

It is the artist’s vision that was radically modified, as other aspects of his art confirm, and this was not the consequence of his interest in ballet. Exhibition Review: Degas: More Than Just a Ballet Master 2011-09-23T12:00:07Z

Please keep that in mind whenever you get the urge to remount the whole you-deserve-better ballet. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: If your friend could do so much better than him, why doesn’t she? 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Leadership positions in ballet tend to be dominated by men; it’s heartening to see Ms. McEwen building her own enterprise as both a choreographer and artistic director. MorDance in a Triple Bill at the Sheen Center 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z

And then this girl, getting up, does the most virtuoso steps in the ballet so far. School of American Ballet’s New Graduates Onstage 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

They twist off the wall, halfway between the ballet and the hardware store. In the galleries: The beauty of nature, in all its horror 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Frankly, it isn’t even the right ballet for a world-class company to start its season. American Ballet Theater Performs ‘Don Quixote’ 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

My 10,000 hours has obviously gone in a different direction, but ballet resonates so much with me. Hayley Williams Is Fueled by Teas, Thrifting and Terrifying Films 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

She teaches classical repertory as well as selections from ballets by Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Antony Tudor, among others. A Former Renegade Spirit Becomes a Headmistress 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z

Worldwide, the odds that an artistic director of a major ballet company will have a female successor are just 29 percent. Do Men Still Rule Ballet? Let Us Count the Ways. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

This is one of those rare Beauties that serves equally the demands of ballet and fairytale in style. Sleeping Beauty – review 2013-01-11T12:52:00Z

“That you don’t even realize that you’ve kind of transformed into this sort of ballet space.” The Dance Delight in ‘Barbie’ Belongs to the Kens 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z

“So to put it center stage in a ballet is not telling anybody what’s what, but I’m saying this is valuable.” Twyla Tharp Creates ?The Princess and the Goblin? Ballet 2012-02-03T15:40:07Z

There’s a quality of singing expansiveness to his dancing that transforms the ballet. Sugarplum Fairies and Cavaliers Move Ahead at City Ballet 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Millepied’s choreographic style is his own — fleet, with the body often arrested in sudden still positions that draw the eye to the beauty of line in classical ballet. Paris Opera Shows Off Its Brilliance 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

At his ballet school, students ages 5 to 18, learn only classical ballet, following the Vaganova method - the same as his own training in China. Ling coaches daughter at International Ballet 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Isa Warren attends private school, lives in a doorman building and does ballet. From Missing Persons to Mistaken Identities, Books About Seeing and Being Seen 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z

"You've got to be there, proseltyising, evangelising on behalf of this place and on behalf of opera and ballet more generally." New BBC director general Tony Hall: 'It's about setting the conditions whereby artists flourish' 2013-03-02T09:01:06Z

And I believe that what underlies ballet is the same ideal that underlies the nude. Nakedness in Dance, Taken to Extremes 2012-08-16T12:00:00Z

Summers are spent at ballet “intensives”, which means six weeks away from home, living in dorms, taking classes all day at the Washington Ballet and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. 'She’s good, but she’s big': my years as a 'fat' ballerina 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z

All of my ballets are commentaries on ballets. 'He's turning traditional dance on its head': Why S.F., Houston and Seattle troupes are in L.A. 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

New York City Ballet Tickets for one of the world’s finest ballet companies normally start at $30, though the seat locations — to the far right and far left of the house — reflect the low price. Lincoln Center Works to Attract a Younger Audience 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

The expressive potential of these ballets blooms only when there are remarkable technical control and musical sensitivity. Stars’ Variety Shines in City Ballet Balanchine Program 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

I fall asleep and miss the end of the ballet. Arts in lockdown: I curated my own three-day online festival. Now it’s over, and I am wrecked 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Copeland’s struggle, since she started at 13, has been to reconcile the African-American culture in which she was raised with the world of ballet. Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z

He created his first independent collection at Balmain in the 1980s, a period during which he designed costumes for the ballet as well. The Man Who Dressed Melania Trump for the Ball 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Though ballet is no better than other forms of dancing, its capacity for large-scale legibility have singular theatrical potency. Critic?s Notebook: At City Ballet This Winter, You Could Sometimes See the Music 2011-02-28T23:15:07Z

Degas made important paintings of ballet in the 1860s, but it was around 1870 when dance, especially in its classrooms, became one of his recurrent and most popular subjects. Degas?s Ballet at the Phillips Collection and Royal Academy 2011-09-02T12:39:28Z

This month, a new full-length ballet, “Nureyev,” was postponed just days before its world premiere. A New Calling Card for the Bolshoi Ballet 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

The three-act ballet, a coproduction with the Royal Ballet that garnered largely positive reviews when it premiered in London last summer, will be performed a dozen times in New York, beginning June 22. Ballet Theater to Bring ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ to Met Stage 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

Among those is his son, Nilas, who has been a principal of the company for 17 years and who made his only appearances of the season in this ballet. In City Ballet?s Season One Jewel Still Sparkles 2010-03-01T05:54:00Z

In terms of dance style, I imagine other ballets will suit him better than this, and yet I rejoiced in the bravado of his various spins, jumps, flourishes. Bolshoi Ballet Performs ‘Don Quixote’ With a Smile 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

I will defend the escapism of “The Nutcracker,” but I cringe at the sensationalism, the triteness and the ham that characterize the majority of story ballets, works like “Don Quixote,” “Le Corsaire” and “La Bayadère.” Arts & Leisure Preview: Story Ballets, Still Romantically Inclined 2010-08-04T22:16:00Z

Their partnership has meaning: While they went on to dance with others — and in many instances, more successfully — their earliest performance together in a full-length ballet was “Don Quixote” in 1996. Dance Review: Angel Corella in ‘Swan Lake,’ His Ballet Theater Farewell 2012-06-29T21:51:05Z

To see male dancers perform as a group, in a corps de ballet setting, but with great power, grace and sensitivity, was awe-inspiring. Boys Will Be Swans: ‘What Is That Show, and How Do I Do It?’ 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

This is the world that “Partita,” Peck’s latest ballet in sneakers, inhabits. Review: At City Ballet, Giving Voice to the Body, With Sneakers 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

She is more French than the French in this ballet, her arabesques rarely higher than a 90 degree angle, her footwork impeccably sparkling, her demeanor demure. Ballet Review: Ballet Stands on Ceremony 2013-12-10T16:26:42Z

An evolution Petipa himself ignited, by blowing it up to operatic proportions, not only with occasional live animals, but also with extended sequences for the corps de ballet and soloists as well as the stars. Camels, monkeys and lions at the ballet: Marius Petipa was just getting started 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

That ballet was the closer of a meandering evening that started with speeches by Misty Copeland and others, as well a film highlighting the A.B.T. Review: What Does Ballet Need Now? Not Retro Fantasy. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Peck’s gift for composition — an ability to create apparently effortless groupings that keep dissolving and reforming with improbable brilliance — is clear throughout the ballet. Review: In Paris, a Bold Ballet Adventure From Justin Peck 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

Unlike other ballet classics from that era, it seldom loses narrative tension; its technical and acting challenges keep stimulating individual casts. Dance Review: Bolshoi’s ‘Giselle,’ Geared to Virtuosity and a Vocal Audience 2014-04-06T21:59:32Z

Laura is with the Los Angeles ballet now and she wants to be a ballet star. | Paul Jasmin 2010-12-15T14:56:00Z

You might howl at the sheer audacity of mixing mental illness with the body-fatiguing, mind-numbing rigors of ballet, but its lurid imagery and a hellcat competition between two rival dancers is pretty irresistible. Ballet thriller "Black Swan" so bad it's good 2010-09-01T23:26:00Z

George Balanchine’s pure dance masterpiece “Jewels” explores three facets of ballet: “Emeralds” evokes France; “Rubies” captures an angular, energetic midcentury American modernism; and “Diamonds” conjures the courtly grandeur of imperial Russian classicism. Celebrating Balanchine’s ‘Jewels’ With an International Flair 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

I’ve seen more than 60 of his ballets in the last 10 years; Balanchine Without Balanchine is a growth industry. Suzanne Farrell and Kyra Nichols Carry on Balanchine’s Spirit 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

There’s so much promise here — beginning with a new understanding of contemporary dance and ballet. Perspective | Black women are finally shattering the glass ceiling in dance 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z

The “Don Quixote” number, however, is just a cartload of ballet clichés, most of which were certainly added long after Petipa’s death. Dance Review: Miami City Ballet in Liam Scarlett Work at Kravis Center 2013-01-28T23:05:18Z

It’s been 30 years since the Kennedy Center established its visionary Ballet Commissioning Project, which brought together leading choreographers and the nation’s top ballet companies. Perspective | In theaters or at home, dance is here to move you 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

She said she knows there’s expectation in presenting such a large ballet that is so closely connected to the original Dance Theater, but she sees it as a way to reach future generations. Bringing Back ‘Dougla’ Is a Family Affair 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Taylor’s style has always had a few ballet qualities, but his dancers have always leavened that with a rich weightedness that almost no ballet dancer can approach. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-14T22:08:35Z

This spring you can hear Balanchine’s ballets to Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto, Symphony in Three Movements, “Danses Concertantes,” “Agon” and Movements for Piano and Orchestra, a late 12-tone work that seldom turns up in concert halls. New York City Ballet Uses Contemporary Classical Music 2010-06-11T14:17:00Z

As an artist, she was fixing an image in the mind that offers a way to understand this ballet. Review | A ‘Giselle’ that whirls with unusual lyricism 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z

The ballet had taken every measure it could, he said. Russian Ballet Returned to the Stage. Then a Covid Outbreak Hit. 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

In the three decades that followed, ballet became established on American soil, with American and European artists collaborating. Review: ‘Transmissions’ Evokes a Climate (Poetic, With a Chance of Ballet) 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

He was both prolific and stylistically eclectic with a body of work that spanned opera – he became Europe's leading composer of the form – a dozen ballets and more than 200 works for the concert hall. In praise of … Hans Werner Henze 2012-10-29T22:43:24Z

Viscera/Infra/Fools Paradise – a triple bill of modern ballets – is on at the Royal Opera House now. Why we're watching… Liam Scarlett 2012-11-11T00:05:45Z

He finds a musical box sporting a twirling ballet dancer. The best children's picture books for summer 2013-07-24T15:01:27Z

“I’m always focused on ways that I can expose ballet to new audiences and creating knowledge that are rooted in our culture, our history, our stories,” McQueen said. Brooklyn Museum Celebrates 25 Years of First Saturdays 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

He is known as a champion of younger Russian choreographers and for expanding the influence of ballet at La Scala, known primarily for opera. Bolshoi Ballet names new director to replace Sergei Filin, injured in acid attack 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

The music endured, but the ballet disappeared after only nine performances. ‘The Rite of Spring,’ Basil Twist’s Spin on Stravinsky 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Welcome to ABT Across America, a ballet tour not quite like any before it. On the Road With Ballet Theater. Who Needs Red Velvet Seats. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z

To be fair, charming patrons is an integral part of ballet, a genre that grew out of court cultures of 16th-century France and Italy. Benjamin Millepied Leaps Into the Spotlight 2011-02-02T23:36:06Z

At one point, she even does so in high heels and a blond wig, for the tradition that “Monchichi” crosses with hip-hop is not ballet. Review: ‘Monchichi,’ a Love Story in Different Languages 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ollivier told the BBC that he began to dance because his three sisters went to ballet, and one day their teacher suggested that he try a class. Jonathan Ollivier, Dancer Featured in Matthew Bourne's Work, Dies in Crash 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

American choreographer Jorma Elo is still a relative novelty in the UK, but his fractured energetic work is hugely in demand on the world ballet circuit. This week's new dance 2011-07-08T23:09:31Z

Or so it seems to someone accustomed to reading the language of ballet, which is the language Mr. Wheeldon speaks. Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘An American in Paris’ Brings Ballet Values to Broadway 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

All that gives it away as a stage set for a ballet is a pair of pink ballet slippers visible between the horse’s front legs. Review | Degas had a gift for conveying the truth — even when he was making it all up 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Born in Fort Worth, Texas, he has ballet in his blood. Four Dancers Promoted to Principal at New York City Ballet 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

Both of these ballets made poor use of their music. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Is Changing, but Questions Remain 2012-06-15T21:27:12Z

She recalled the first time she was in the studio with Robbins; up to that point, in “Goldberg Variations” and “Fanfare,” two of his ballets, she found herself positioned in the back row. Easy Does It: Bringing Old-School Wisdom to City Ballet 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

It’s a welcome return from this American who danced with the Joffrey Ballet before relocating to Europe and building a reputation for transforming classical ballet by pushing the limits of strength and agility. The Week in Arts: ‘Madam Secretary’ Returns; a Master Takes On Macbeth 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

She also delivered lectures about ballet and Egyptian dance, often at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and at the Smithsonian Institution. Magda Saleh, Influential Egyptian Ballerina, Is Dead at 79 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

And this pas de deux proves the highlight of the ballet. Dance Review: What Do Women (or Men) Want? A Gala?s Question 2010-10-08T22:58:00Z

I danced some fabulous ballets and fabulous roles. What Is an Everyday Ballerina? A Luminous New Memoir Tells All. 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

But it’s also undeniably Mr. Peck’s, in that ballet looks like a perfectly natural form of communication, whether depicting friendly rivalries or budding romances. Review: Fall for Dance Opens With Miami Ballet and Che Malambo 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

“Balanchine recast his ballets all the time — I don’t think it’s anything unusual,” Mr. Mack said. Peter Martins Left City Ballet a Year Ago. But He’s Not Entirely Gone. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

He also presented operas, ballets, concerts and artists ranging from Rudolf Nureyev to Frank Sinatra to U2. James M. Nederlander, theater impresario, dies at 94 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

When her friend the Marquis de Cuevas died, in 1961, she managed his ballet company for a few years, “so I had a focus for my energies.” Haute Ticket: Jacqueline de Ribes at the Met 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

In 2017, Schumacher wanted to create a narrative dance — not the usual update of a classic ballet or adaptation of a familiar movie or book, but “a new story about people living today,” he said. A Song and Dance Collaboration, Straight Outta Swamplandia 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

He joined the second season of “Dance Smash,” which brought together artists from a variety of genres, including modern dance, ballet and traditional Chinese dance. ‘Princes Can Be Asian, Too’: A Dancer Breaks Barriers in Ballet 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

And then they set to work on the ballet. ‘Streetcar’ duo had mutual desire 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

“Unfortunately, he did not respect my wishes, even though I was crystal clear,” said Mr. Stafford, a ballet master and former principal dancer. Peter Martins Left City Ballet a Year Ago. But He’s Not Entirely Gone. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

But though “Dido” will be played and sung by Tanglewood Fellows, it is a true ballet and will be danced by members of Mr. Morris’s company. Critic’s Notebook: Mark Morris Directing Britten’s ‘Curlew River’ 2013-07-30T20:59:50Z

This one includes a dance for two women that is compelling and funny because they take turns to do charming ballet steps with real precision to mime — no less meticulously — throwing things at each other. Dance Review: A Long-Absent Comedy Leaps Out for a Farewell 2011-03-06T20:22:36Z

Under the terms of the agreement, all U.N.C.S.A. ballet faculty will receive training and become certified in ABT’s National Training Curriculum from primary through partnering levels. ArtsBeat: American Ballet Theater Announces Partnership With the University of North Carolina School of the Arts 2011-06-29T18:30:39Z

“This is the reality of the ballet world,” wrote Ms. Copeland, the first African-American female principal at American Ballet Theater. Blackface at the Ballet Highlights a Global Divide on Race 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

It's a film everyone should watch who's involved in the debate over gifted children – in music, sports, academic subjects as well as ballet. Young ballet dancers: are we trying to catch a swan before it hatches? 2013-06-12T12:20:00Z

But she takes charge of the ballet blithely, and there’s a marvelously gleeful authority with which she enounces many steps. Dance Review: The Balanchine Way, Imprinted 2011-06-08T21:28:34Z

The company made Johnson’s career in ballet possible; and, even now, she said, she knows the world needs Dance Theater of Harlem. Virginia Johnson Steps Down From Dance Theater of Harlem. For Keeps. 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

In my mid- to late 20s, I started really taking an interest in — I don’t want to say ballet history, because it’s more visual than that for me. James Whiteside Thinks ‘The Legend of Zelda’ Would Make a Great Ballet 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

Nothing is irritatingly wrongheaded about Lynne Taylor-Corbett’s direction or choreography — cynical ambivalence about these sins is built into this 1933 ballet by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill — but nothing is remotely memorable either. Dance Review: When Brecht and Weill Danced, Revisited 2011-05-12T22:00:13Z

At 17, in the segregated 1940s, Myers Brown got the bug to become a ballerina from a white teacher, Virginia Lingenfelder, and was the first and only Black student in Lingenfelder’s ballet club. Moving Over: A Powerhouse of Black Dance Is Retiring (Mostly) 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

He is full of plans for future work, which include a new version of Alice in Wonderland for the Royal Ballet next year – the first full-length ballet commissioned by the company in 16 years. Christopher Wheeldon: the golden boy grows up 2010-05-04T20:30:00Z

She’s still working up the confidence to dance her first ballet on point. A Ballerina’s Return From Maternity Leave 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

If only Mr. Martins had a better notion of how to direct this movielike ballet! Review: ‘Romeo + Juliet,’ a Movielike Ballet in Need of Better Direction 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

“It was nothing dissimilar to work we’ve done,” she said later on the phone, referring to the experience, her first designing for the ballet. New York City Ballet's Partnership With Fashion 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

“Jeu de Cartes” — a dense ballet in which every viewing yields a wealth of fresh details — shows Mr. Ratmansky’s remarkably witty command of ballet grammar. Ángel Corella’s Opens Debut Season at Pennsylvania Ballet 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

These are traits that make her ideal for the part of a woman required to bridge the delicacy of ballet with the brass of Broadway. Theater Review: ‘On Your Toes,’ With Christine Baranski, at City Center 2013-05-09T21:00:33Z

Fortunately, the program ended with a ballet that pays homage to Dance Theater’s roots: Robert Garland’s masterly “Return.” Dance Theater of Harlem Comes to Celebrate Brooklyn! 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

It allows the dancers to show off their ballet technique and lyricism — apparent even through wobbles and discontinuities only partly excused by the less-than-ideal surface of the outdoor stage. Review: Moves Versatile Enough for Philip Glass and James Brown 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

Then, almost a decade later, he stumbled on a book of Ryden’s art in a Tokyo store and was so taken with the imagery, it reignited his desire to develop the ballet. Mark Ryden's foray into set design is a fantastical ballet of candyland delights 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Of course virtuosity is an important part of ballet — who isn’t thrilled by physical feats and daring? Dance Review: Here, Some Promising Young Dancers, There, Some Well-Seasoned Pros 2011-03-23T21:29:04Z

It seems to me that in ballet or modern or whatever, age is looked down upon and we tend to go toward young people. ‘Release. Joy. Love.’ A Dance Festival at Little Island. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Knowing how much the production means to the community, though, he was careful to discuss it with many others beforethe ballet’s governing board made the decision. PNB’s Stowell/Sendak ‘Nutcracker’ takes a final bow 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

I'd worked with her a couple of times at the Royal Ballet School when she was about 16," Wheeldon says, "and again when she was in the corps de ballet. My Muse and me 2012-05-27T17:01:01Z

Last year, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the protests that followed, American ballet companies started talking a lot more about race. Black in Ballet: Coming Together After Trying to ‘Blend Into the Corps’ 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

On their fourth album, the sisters say they 'finally knew what we wanted to do' Nonetheless, the sisters found ballet's discipline to be a benefit in the lawless lowlands of the music industry. Sister act 2011-05-24T07:08:40Z

On the scrim, we saw a series of black-and-white photographs of Wendy Whelan, the ballet dancer, and an abstract man made of stars. Outer Space, via Virtual Reality, in Prospect Park 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z

“I didn't start out doing ballet,”  the Salt Lake City native said. A ballet superstar hits Hollywood with 'A Chorus Line' at the Bowl 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

I said, “I went to the ballet,” and they just wanted to kill me. A Witty Mastermind of Les Ballets Trockadero Comes Home 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

That both works were choreographed by women says something about the ballet world’s attempt to expand beyond that all-too-familiar character: the white male choreographer. Review: The Costume Dramas of New York City Ballet 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

It fluently covers a spectrum of dance idioms: jazz arm gestures, Cuban hip motion and the intricate petite batterie of ballet jumps are just three of the most unmistakable. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center - Review 2011-12-07T22:26:02Z

Subtract the catchy songs, the sublimely shot dream ballet, Emma Stone’s incandescence, and Ryan Gosling’s dimples, and you’ve got an undernourished story about two dreamers who dream about the City of Dreams. Oscar Spotlight: The Screenplays 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

And she had no cause to notice the shroud of secrecy surrounding dancers’ “pain or exhaustion” or whatever vulnerability might compromise the ballets’ presentation. Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z

This 1959 ballet is danced in silence, but that isn’t the only challenge it poses. Review: In Juilliard Dances Repertory, the Past Is a Path 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tomasson’s work tends to be instantly forgettable; Mr. Possokhov’s ballets have prompted keen loyalties in the Bay Area but have looked lightweight when danced in New York or London. Dance Review: Nerve and Verve On a Grand Scale 2011-03-07T22:49:07Z

While still a dancer in the corps de ballet, she was cast in Balanchine works like “Prodigal Son” and “Apollo.” Farewell to a Ballerina With Borscht Belt Humor and ‘Legs of Life’ 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

For me, the technical side of ballet is just the palette that we work with. Stars give their top 10 tips 2014-03-08T03:57:21Z

It's not a ballet company – its name refers to Spanish national dance, not classical ballet. Step-by-step guide to dance: Ballet Nacional de Espa?a 2010-04-21T05:00:00Z

So it’s exciting that Ms. Parson is collaborating with them again, on a new work inspired by Graham’s 1941 comic ballet “Punch and the Judy.” Dance This Season: Tap, Ballet and the Inexplicable 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

In her lawsuit, Ms. Waterbury accuses Mr. Finlay of sending nude photos of herself to Mr. Ramasar, who, the court papers say, sent back an image of a bare-chested “female ballet member.” City Ballet and Chase Finlay Sued by Woman Who Says Nude Photos of Her Were Shared 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Irish landscapes and scenes of woodland deer sit alongside backstage views of the ballet, brightly coloured “guitarscapes” and portraits of his fellow Stones. Inside Ronnie Wood’s cottage studio 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z

They are also sold at the box office on the night of each performance, though due to the high demand for tickets, advance reservations are recommended. ballet, opera, Pool Party! In Rome, Opera in Ruins 2010-07-11T10:00:00Z

“It’s a great way also to bring ballet to a younger audience, giving it to them in a fun way,” Ms. Barak said. 2010-01-11T08:09:00Z

Consisting of previously created material knitted together by the dancers’ spoken meditations, “Elo Experience,” which drew loud applause and cheers that night, offers a decidedly contemporary take on how a full-length ballet might be structured. Boston Makeover, No Sugarcoating 2011-04-29T16:20:24Z

I've loved taking what I learned on Broadway and bringing it to ballet.” A ballet superstar hits Hollywood with 'A Chorus Line' at the Bowl 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

Her way of melding movement and music is bigger than ballet: She dances with an expanding heart, full of possibilities and new beginnings — not only in her dancing, but in dancing period. The Return of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Isn’t City Ballet’s Reawakening 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

Phil orchestra had played the suite from Copland's classic ballet score, "Appalachian Spring," which premiered the same year as "Fancy Free." Audra McDonald captivates a Bowl audience, but she's meant for more 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z

“I’m going to focus on introducing ballet as a form of self-expression, as a way to cultivate creativity, in young children - girls and boys,” she says. Minnesota teen ballerina wants to branch out 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

Also I had years of tap and ballet lessons as a child, and still dance like my legs are on backwards. Strictly Come Dancing 2015: week three – as it happened 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

Today, the academy is one of the major ballet training programs in the world, with students in 92 countries following syllabuses and taking its exams governed by the organization. From the Music Hall to Ballet Royalty: A British Tale 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z

The programming also features a ballet that looks forward rather than backward: Christopher Rudd’s premiere “Lifted,” with an all-Black cast and creative team, which will premiere at the fall gala on Oct. 54 Dance Programs, Festivals and More Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

The contrasts between man and woman in their ballets helped to make the mid-20th century the greatest era for choreography in ballet’s history. Arts & Leisure Preview: Story Ballets, Still Romantically Inclined 2010-08-04T22:16:00Z

When I watch them, my mind goes to a Jerome Robbins quote about “Dances at a Gathering,” his sublime 1969 ensemble ballet. French Olympic Ice Dancers Make Skating as Ethereal as Ballet 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Commissioned ballets have seemed an afterthought, premiering at the tail end of each season and created by relative newcomers, former dancers with minimal experience on the other side of the creative process. Review | The ballet dancers dived into the ball pit. That’s when the evening really took off. 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

At times, the choreography seems like a patchwork — yes, a mosaic — of allusions to ballet rituals and codes. Review: At City Ballet, Bending the Form’s Rituals and Codes 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cardin, who was captivated by the worlds of theater and ballet, first dreamed of acting, but was later drawn to designing costumes and sets for the stage. Pierre Cardin, Designer to the Famous and Merchant to the Masses, Dies at 98 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

The ballet suggests an idealized space, in which the elements move with elegance and mutual respect. Sufjan Stevens and Justin Peck Make a Ballet About Respect 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

These women dance on pointe but without male partners; this is ballet without dependency, weight firmly balanced, defiant. Review | In Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America, a women’s movement 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

Sublimity, however, is what has been avoided; and the grandeur of ballet, as many old works still reveal, was one of its glories. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

On a winter evening late last year, an odd gathering took place in Hoxton Square in London: there was a corps de ballet of skeletons in black tutus, a house on legs and walking mummies. Spirit of the underground: theatre 2011-01-30T23:00:00Z

It resembles a tour jeté in ballet and is the first jump people usually learn. Faster, Higher, Stronger: Before the Glitter, Plenty of Bruises 2010-02-24T20:40:00Z

There’s its bravura opening for one, an unbroken eight-minute ballet introducing us to the major players and murky politics of early 14th-century Scotland. Full frontal: why the fuss over Chris Pine's 'dazzling' penis? 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

For some, all three are urban ballets: Paris, New York, St. Petersburg. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z

And bouquet-giving does seem to play a unique part in ballet culture throughout the year. How ballet fell for flower-giving 2012-12-18T20:00:01Z

The same solo concludes with the most sustained circuit of turns in all ballet: Cinderella not only spins twice right around the stage but accelerates as she does. Review: Marianela Nuñez Enchants as Cinderella With American Ballet Theater 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

Disney’s film includes just a fraction of the ballet of a typical stage production of “The Nutcracker.” Disney tells a different 'Nutcracker' story on the big screen 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

The pop-star cachet can provide a powerful dose of publicity for a ballet company. Paul McCartney Composes Work for City Ballet 2011-02-23T23:05:59Z

Lynne streamlined ballet into a look that is recognizably feline, and with every move, the cast members embody it. Review | Love it or hate it, ‘Cats’ the musical has way more than nine lives 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

“I question ballet as a viable contemporary art form every day,” Mr. Binet said. New York City Ballet Gambles on Unknown Choreographers 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

As for his new dance, “I decided I’d make an evening ballet in which everything also always goes wrong,” he said. A Witty Mastermind of Les Ballets Trockadero Comes Home 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

With its Ancien Régime setting, its palatial choreography and music, Sleeping Beauty is the grandest ballet in the repertory; and in visual terms, Birmingham Royal Ballet's production remains the most magisterial I've seen. Sleeping Beauty 2010-04-21T20:45:00Z

It reminds us that Louis XIV’s Versailles was called “a perpetual ballet,” where etiquette was the choreography. Dance Review: Royal Ballet of Cambodia at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-05-03T22:54:41Z

He added: “It would be lovely to think that audiences of ‘American in Paris’ have come away with their eyes open a little bit about ballet. Robert Fairchild Crosses Back to Ballet, Gershwin in Tow 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

He may well end up lasting longer than the 35 years enjoyed by the company’s founding ballet master, George Balanchine. Critic’s Notebook: Peter Martins and City Ballet Over 30 Seasons 2013-06-11T21:24:09Z

“You can have absolutely vertiginous heels and, at the same time, sell billions of ballet flats,” Ms. Steele said. Front Row: I.B.M. Predicts Heel Heights - Runway 2011-11-23T18:51:41Z

The lack of diversity among ballet dancers is a growing concern, with many pointing to access and grassroots as the problem's source. Misty Copeland raises bar for black ballet dancers 2013-06-04T14:22:39Z

So the company came up with a perhaps more audacious plan for the spring: they asked JR to direct a ballet for the stage. ArtsBeat: French Street Artist Taking His Work Onstage at City Ballet 2014-02-26T18:04:16Z

All three ballets it presented on Wednesday were created for the New York company. Review: Miami City Ballet Brings Its Own Sunshine to Jacob’s Pillow 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

Your story — growing up with a single mom in a cramped motel room with five siblings and becoming America’s most famous ballet dancer — is a classic triumph-over-adversity tale. Misty Copeland on diversity in dance, her 'Nutcracker' princess and coming home for the holidays 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

What was striking about his return to the company — this time as a choreographer for its annual Fall Fashion Gala program — was the realization of how much the landscape and culture of ballet has changed. Review: At New York City Ballet, an Intriguing Glimpse of the Future 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

The season continues with a world premiere of a ballet by Battle, drawing from folk and modern dance styles, with an original score by the composer John Mackey, a longtime collaborator. Alvin Ailey Celebrates Its 65th Season With Tribute to Ailey Women 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

With the sucked-in movement and sharp gestures, it looks a bit like the work of ballet choreographer Antony Tudor, a master of social anxiety in the 1930s and ’40s, and with whom Taylor studied. ‘Creative Domain’: Film takes us into mystery of Paul Taylor’s dances 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Hoe-Down, Aaron Copland The final section of Copland’s Rodeo ballet is great for toddlers who like to troop around the house in a cowboy hat talking about Sheriff Woody and Jessie the Cowgirl. 10 Pieces of Classical Music Your Toddler will Love 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

The marriage of music and dance is fundamental; the language of the ballet classroom is not just a stylistic underpinning but often central to choreographic vocabulary; storytelling is rare. Ballet After Balanchine: 3 Choreographers Lead the Way 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

It’s time for another visit to “Swan Lake,” that enduring avian classic of the ballet canon. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Especially wonderful is his lithe and sweet Larghetto, delicate like the light dabs of a ballet dancer on point. The Ultimate Beethoven Symphony Collection 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

This comic ballet, to music by Dmitri Shostakovich, opens Thursday as part of Ballet Theater’s spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House. Have Any Point Shoes In a Man?s Size 9? 2011-06-03T18:22:07Z

What they bring are kitschy spectacles, melodramas told through broad acting and ballet conflated with acrobatics, all underlined by formulaic music, Chinese and Western. Review: ‘Dragon Boat Racing,’ a Sea of Love and Music 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. McKenzie immediately hired Mr. Corella, then a corps de ballet member of a small company in his native Spain, and cast him in showpiece technical roles like the Bronze Idol in “Don Quixote.” Dance: Angel Corella and Ethan Stiefel Move on From Ballet Theater 2012-06-29T19:55:43Z

‘Medicine Man,’ like BalletNow, is about pushing ballet into the forefront.... Star ballerina Tiler Peck is in L.A. to prove that BalletNow goes far beyond ‘Swan Lake’ 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Houston’s two Rudolfs both admirably carried the entire ballet in its large arc from high society to suicide. After Flood, Houston Ballet Returns With a Romantic Masterpiece 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z

The program ended with the Balanchine-Stravinsky masterpiece “Symphony in Three Movements,” a powerhouse of a ballet set to music composed during . Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky-Balanchine Program 2012-09-29T01:50:08Z

When she was 4, her mother enrolled her in tap and ballet classes at the Bernice Johnson Cultural Arts Center in Queens. The School That Camille A. Brown Built 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

Her early dance experiences, long before she took ballet and modern classes, were as a liturgical praise dancer. The Choreographer Angie Pittman’s Quiet Storm 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

While queer women and gender nonconforming dancers assigned female at birth are beginning to find safe spaces in professional ballet, few have been able to pursue traditionally male roles. A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

The result is an explosion of fantasy, surrealism and traditional ballet — “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” meets “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” meets “The Nutcracker.” Mark Ryden's foray into set design is a fantastical ballet of candyland delights 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Then there were the changes to the ballet itself. ‘Nutcracker’ in May? The Virus Postpones a Christmas Tradition 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

The film’s emotional core is Acosta’s complex relationship with his late father who - unusually given his macho, humble milieu - sent him to ballet school to keep him out of trouble. Cuban ballet star Carlos Acosta stars in own biopic 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Indeed, dancing and dying are linked throughout ballet history. ‘Rite of Spring’: Ode to the human savage, still untamed 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Like most ballet choreographers over the past few hundred years, he has taken musical melody, theme and structure as the impetus for the creation of movement. ‘How Am I Going to Dance to This?’ Ratmansky’s New Music Frontier 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

It took most of the 20th century, however, for ballet in Russia even to catch up with what Fokine had been doing elsewhere. Dance Review: Mariinsky Ballet Dances Fokine at Kennedy Center - Review 2012-01-23T22:57:43Z

“I never imagined playing all three,” Ms. Neuwirth said by telephone on Tuesday morning, on her way into a ballet class. ArtsBeat: Bebe Neuwirth to Play a Third Role in ‘Chicago’ on Broadway 2013-12-17T18:11:42Z

Leave it to Austin, proud purveyor of indie rock and artsy ideas, to become the country’s leading exporter of literary story ballets. A balletic ‘Hamlet’ takes one giant leap from Texas to Washington 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

In an evening of conversation with the company’s former principal Darci Kistler — regarded as George Balanchine’s last ballerina — Mr. Kolnik talks about Balanchine’s ballets and his images, which he refers to as “illuminated documents.” 7 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

In “The Last Testament” this divine author warns that when Italy stops being shaped like a boot and starts looking like a ballet flat, Armageddon will be near. Books of The Times: ?The Last Testament: A Memoir by God? - Review 2011-11-27T22:24:27Z

At that moment, Giselle relives a memory from earlier in the ballet when she and Albrecht counted the petals of a flower in a game of “he loves me, he loves me not.” Skylar Brandt: A Ballerina Invests in Herself 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Unfortunately, nobody else made so compelling a case for the other 19th-century ballets excerpted here. American Ballet Theater Celebrates 70th With Gala 2010-05-18T17:04:00Z

What the history of British classical dance overwhelmingly demonstrates is that while women may run ballet schools and become ballet company administrators and directors, they are rarely, if ever, invited to the choreographic high table. Sexism in dance: where are all the female choreographers? 2013-04-28T08:00:33Z

And compared to later Soviet productions, which recast so much of the ballet in big strokes of dance and action, this is a Swan Lake that sings through its detail. Swan Lake 2010-07-14T21:15:00Z

The lineup, dazzling as always, includes stars from ballet, hip-hop, ballroom, tap and modern dance, mixed and matched. 50 Essential Summer Festivals 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The youngest dancers are 6, and the oldest are high-schoolers and recent graduates enrolled in the ballet’s Professional Training Program. ‘The Nutcracker’: Fairies and tulle onstage, total nuts backstage 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

On Thursday, it was announced that Ratmansky, one of ballet’s greatest choreographers, would join City Ballet as its artist in residence in August. At City Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky Can Let His Imagination Run Wild 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Not every moment is quite so inspired as that one, an intricate, freeze-frame slapstick ballet that fuses the pop playfulness of the old comics with the latest digital gimmickry. Old and New Cast Join in ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

In the ballet, I do have a seed character, Taylor Stanley, and a storm, Sara Mearns, but I’m not worried about it making sense. ‘I Feel an Abundance’: A Composer Dips Into the Dance World 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Enamored of ballet and tutus, a 4-year-old Tara announced to her mother, who mostly managed the household, that she wanted to move to New York. Stretch: Rebel Yoga 2011-01-22T01:50:05Z

The time has come to reconsider Nijinska, too often relegated to the more obscure corners of ballet history. Why Is Bronislava Nijinska Still Waiting in the Wings? 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

Talo has thought a lot about how to better support his students, but also about what those students could bring to ballet. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

The flat ballet shoes, with transparent plastic bands fastening them at the ankles, were mirrored in the black satin ribbon necklets, joined at the nape to disheveled chignons. Special Report: Fashion: Reflecting on the Future 2011-01-25T18:18:38Z

Leaders of Collage Dance Collective, a professional ballet company and a school based in Memphis, were also left mystified. Perspective | MacKenzie Scott’s multimillion-dollar message: Art is essential everywhere, not just in museums and theaters 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

“It’s so wonderful to be working with the company, because you can unapologetically delight in classical ballet, and these kinds of nuances,” Farley, 27, said backstage after the rehearsal. Stepping Into the Balanchine-Stravinsky Continuum 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

To mark this anniversary, and the departure of two longtime dancers, Magloire introduces two new ballets — a solo set to music by Schubert and an ensemble piece to Dvorak. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Given Vincent Cassel's newly mellow persona as a happily married father of two with a penchant for ballet, this might now be the darkest thing about him. Vincent Cassel: 'You don't have to be your character in real life' 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

All three freestyle skiing disciplines were added as demonstration sports at Calgary in 1988, but the International Olympic Committee seemed uncertain how to create objective judging criteria for ballet. When Ski Ballet Pushed at the Porous Boundary Between Art and Sport 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

In black shorts, white T-shirts and ballet slippers, they looked like students dressed for class. Review: Twyla Tharp Looks Back, With an Eye on the Future 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Amid upheavals, there's good news in Hong Kong: Its ballet thrives. The crazy, joyful, uninhibited moves of the choreographer who is changing how we see dance 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

In addition to her prolific career in music, Mitchell has created visual art and worked in ballet. Hammer Museum gala to honor Mark Bradford, Joni Mitchell 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Lately, she’s been attracted to unlikely subjects for ballet, which she often handles whimsically. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: A John Singleton Retrospective, Jlin, and Aliza Nisenbaum 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z

As a soloist with New York City Ballet, Tom Gold often seemed an amiable dancer, and some of his good-natured personality may be creeping into his ballets now that he has become a choreographer. | Dance: From Beach to Bathroom 2014-02-28T23:23:34Z

The heavy, stomping steps were a world away from the elegance of traditional ballet, as the dancers enacted the brutal plot. Rite that caused riots: celebrating 100 years of The Rite of Spring 2013-05-27T14:01:47Z

Until de Valois, ballet in the West was chiefly an art devoted to the new. Royal Ballet Seeks Next Link 2011-04-24T00:48:54Z

Whereas “Giselle” or most ballets by George Balanchine come round often enough for many people to feel acquainted with them, few people have ever had the chance to become truly familiar with any Cunningham repertory. Dance Review: Merce Cunningham Troupe in ?Biped? at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T22:49:13Z

Ms. Homans, the dance critic for The New Republic, a scholar at New York University and a former professional ballet dancer, is profiled in the Arts & Leisure section on Sunday. ArtsBeat: When the Critic Says an Art Form Is Dying 2010-11-19T22:46:00Z

She is both the apotheosis — and the delicious parody — of a ballet star. On Your Toes at Encores!: Dancing With the Real Stars 2013-05-10T21:01:31Z

Around them 2 female soloists, 4 supporting men and a corps de ballet of 12 women keep complicating the drama in new ways. Dance Review: Mercurial Dramas, Vertical and Horizontal 2011-06-02T22:00:35Z

Interests: Theatre, musicals, ballet, disability literature and media. Judith Heumann: 'Biden is committed to involving disabled people in his administration' 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

Or maybe he was demonstrating a particularly complicated pas de deux for the as-yet-unnamed new ballet he is choreographing for the American Ballet Theater that will have its premiere next month. Benjamin Millepied Leaps Into the Spotlight 2011-02-02T23:36:06Z

The ballet centers not so much on good vs. evil but on how the scales tip in one’s quest for freedom. Review | At Wolf Trap, a ‘Swan Lake’ with streaks of light 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z

Also scheduled: Bournonville’s Pas de Six and Tarantella from the ballet “Napoli” and the return of Balanchine’s brilliant and still-provocative “Stravinsky Violin Concerto.” Baryshnikov, Diavolo, BodyTraffic and more: L.A.'s dance scene gears up for a breakout season 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

With these, he mounted ballets like “The Sleeping Beauty,” “Giselle,” Swan Lake” and – yes – “The Nutcracker” in London and Paris. ArtsBeat: Clues to the Original Nutcracker 2010-12-04T12:30:00Z

The American city most hungry for ballet was Philadelphia, she told Balanchine that evening. Boston, Pennsylvania ballets have many similarities at 50

The Western ballet world used to deplore the addition of a Jester to “Swan Lake” as a tacky Soviet excuse for gratuitous display. Dance Review: Peter Martins?s ?Swan Lake? at New York City Ballet - Review 2011-09-14T22:29:22Z

The most determined students combined free instruction at the official arts academy, the Instituto Superior de Arte, with private lessons, often from a teacher specializing in a different approach to ballet technique. Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires Aims to Reclaim Glory Days with a New Direction 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: July 27, 2012 An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the company that Justin Peck created his first ballet for. Justin Peck Choreographing for New York City Ballet 2012-07-27T21:41:56Z

That’s the most difficult ballet for a conductor, far more than “Nutcracker” or even “Swan Lake.” Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

But the Mexican surrealist painter, who was left disabled by polio and a bus accident, might seem an unlikely subject for a ballet. Frida Kahlo Could Barely Walk. In This Ballet, She Dances. 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

The larger issue today is the contrast between the Waterbury lawsuit’s accusations of dismaying manners and language offstage and the beauty of the stage behavior shown in Balanchine’s ballets. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

“The Nutcracker’s” very presence on stages around the country this season represents the triumph of ballet companies over the existential darkness of the past year-plus of shutdowns. Review | At the Kennedy Center (at last), Miami City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ is a perfect Thanksgiving story 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

But recently discovered materials, presented Tuesday at a conference in Moscow, shed new light on its creation and Tchaikovsky’s sometimes rocky beginnings as a ballet composer. Discoveries Clear the Mists From the Original 'Swan Lake' 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

When opera reached France, dance was added, and Louis XIV often took part in the extravagant ballets. How ‘A Mad Love’ of Opera Has Played Out From 17th-Century Mantua to 21st-Century New York 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

HAMRICK: I think it’s amazing that we’re seeing the other side of dancers a bit because ballet has always been behind a gilded curtain, you know, this facade. A night at the ballet, in time for ‘Nutcracker’ season 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

In some ways “The Princess and the Goblin” reflects the singleminded resolve and faith that it takes to become a ballet dancer. Twyla Tharp Creates ?The Princess and the Goblin? Ballet 2012-02-03T15:40:07Z

Boal was intrigued by the idea of reconstructing the ballet from historical sources, and Fullington brought in Marian Smith, a musicologist/dance historian at the University of Oregon, as an adviser for the project. PNB turns old documents into a new 'Giselle' 2011-05-25T21:51:07Z

How many American ballet troupes since 2008 have axed their “Nutcracker” orchestras, I wonder? ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: Let the Taped Music Ring 2010-12-07T18:00:00Z

The first week of New York City Ballet’s spring season is an odd one, with nary a ballet by George Balanchine or Jerome Robbins, its two essential choreographers, in sight. City Ballet’s 21st-Century Choreographers: Some Future Classics, Some Clunkers 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

So Jonathan Stafford, a ballet master and former principal dancer with the company who is at the head of its interim leadership team, telephoned Mr. Martins. A Peter Martins Ballet Loses Peter Martins, and a Slap 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Greenlee’s regimented training in ballet drove her to seek a dance career centered on inclusion and diversity. A choreographer works to bring dance to the disabled 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Artistic director of Ballet Magnificat, a touring Mississippi ballet troupe founded in 1986 on Christian values. Artists in the age of Trump 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

World-class orchestras and ballet companies come and go from the center’s stages, but the lowbrow “Shear Madness” seems to be forever. Coming soon to the Kennedy Center: More reasons to laugh? 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

The films, particularly the stop-action puppet ballets, are incredibly lifelike and precise. Ghosts of ‘Nutcracker’ Past, Preserved on Film 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

If you’ve ever felt curious about ballet but are turned off by its narrow definition of “perfect,” Ballez Class Everywhere is for you. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

I had worked in musical theater a bit, had seen some ballet, some dance on television, but almost nothing contemporary. When a Spice Girl Met a Contemporary Dancer 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

The second half of the ballet begins with a nightmarish vision of the heroine, stuck in a small white room and wearing a girlish gray dress. Arts: Taking a ?Little Mermaid? to Dark New Depths 2010-03-20T00:33:00Z

Classical ballet is a big part of Kaeli’s studies because, she said, ballet is the foundation for other types of dancing. Leesburg teen steps up for touring musical ‘Brothers of the Knight’

They are greeted by street-style male dancers dressed in black leather staged to a rock n' roll version of the classic ballet. Sexy Vegas-style show revives Berlin revue theatre 2010-04-01T21:48:00Z

Making a living from your music as Copland had, in part by writing ballets and film scores, was proving terribly difficult. Just Why Does New Music Need Champions? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Then it was discovered by the West, and companies discovered that they had a family-friendly, festive ballet that could be turned into box office gold every year at Christmas. Cracking the Nutcracker 2012-12-18T15:42:00Z

This meant, Garafola said, that she did not identify with “this figure at the top of the ballet hierarchy that was all about female beauty as defined by the constraints and ideals of ballet.” Why Is Bronislava Nijinska Still Waiting in the Wings? 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

The connection of classical form to personal impulse — plenty of the movements aren’t from the ballet textbook — is unusual. Dance Review: Trey McIntyre Project?s Ballets at Jacob?s Pillow 2010-08-06T20:54:00Z

“Including 55 serious operas, 6 cantatas, 53 comic operas, 17 operettas, 6 sing-spiele, 4 ballets, 4 vaudevilles, 2 oratorios, one each of fares, pastorales, masques, ballads and buffas.” Amy Beach, a Pioneering American Composer, Turns 150 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Clinton Luckett, then a new ballet master, recalled attending a staff meeting in which the subject was Mr. Gomes’s availability for the company’s arduous season at the Metropolitan Opera House. 2010-02-12T17:24:00Z

There also will be a tribute of sorts to Valentino: The ballet will perform "Rubies," from George Balanchine's "Jewels," set to Igor Stravinsky's Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra. Valentino's new runway is the ballet stage 2012-09-19T17:30:18Z

Born in Arizona, Ms. Miranda started ballet and tap at age 4. Dancing Her Way to Pop Stardom, Thanks to YouTube and Rihanna 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The presence of such marvels outside New York lights up the American ballet landscape — but how much? U.S. Ballerinas Redefine an Art, but What About History? 2013-07-05T17:15:59Z

A young man attempts to stage the classic ballet in a rest home in this holiday farce. L.A. theater listings, Nov. 29-Dec. 6: 'Guys and Dolls' and more 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

That ballet was one of the flood of new works made by Balanchine for the Stravinsky Festival of 1972. Dance Review: Demonstrating How a Special Choreographer Made Men Special 2011-08-04T21:32:04Z

Mr. Bigonzetti described his ballet as a homage to the elite City Ballet dancers. City Ballet Readies Architecture of Dance Festival 2010-04-24T02:16:00Z

The classes, five hours a day, include beach boot camp, sports conditioning, core conditioning, balance training, Pilates, ballet tone, dynamic stretching and yoga. Beyond lying on the beach: More vacation packages are combining travel and fitness 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Some of the movie’s themes feel labored, such as a drawn-out discourse comparing the rigidity of ballet to the freedom of modern choreography. ‘Rise’ Review: Step, Repeat, Recover 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

He also created a ballet for the company, “Dear Life…” in December 2017, just before his resignation from Ballet Theater. Marcelo Gomes to Return to the New York Stage With Sarasota Ballet 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

“That was the most important thing, because I’m so tired of seeing ballet dancers being overdramatic.” Dance? Easy. The Ballerina Tiler Peck Leaves Her Comfort Zone. 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Quite often, a star ballerina, itching to expand her repertory, hires a choreographer from outside of ballet. Review: Ballet and Modern Dance Meet, and Ultimately Embrace 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

Founded in 1993, this classical company boasts an eclectic repertory comprising Western staples and contemporary Chinese ballets. 5 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

The company's "New Combinations Evening" honors George Balanchine's legacy by presenting world premiere ballets on or around the anniversary of his birthday, Jan. 22. ArtsBeat: A New Justin Peck Work for New York City Ballet 2012-11-12T19:23:50Z

The project, which involved directors from 21 North American ballet organizations, ended in June. She’s Been a Force for Change in Ballet. The World Is Catching Up. 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

‘It’s only been performed four times in its life,” Mr. Rutledge said of the ballet. ArtsBeat: A Dance, and More, to Romare Bearden 2011-07-06T19:35:59Z

Unnecessarily bright smiles grew more tense as the ballet proceeded; the lead ballerinas seemed guarded. Suzanne Farrell and Kyra Nichols Carry on Balanchine’s Spirit 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The heroines of “Noces,” “Dybbuk,” “Goldberg” and many other Robbins ballets aren’t exalted or glorified; they express a particular sympathy on his part. Jerome Robbins, the Experimentalist 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Everything about Mr. Eifman’s treatment reproduces known effects from other ballets; nothing feels fresh. Review: Boris Eifman, the Sensationalist of Russian Ballet 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z

It also misspelled the given name of a dancer in Justin Peck’s ballet. Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Unbound Festival Plunges Into the New 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z

“Story ballets. I like stories. I’m not interested in abstraction, which makes me kind of old-fashioned.” Martha Clarke has made a career of movement. Now she cherishes stillness.

What does looking at these ballets together reveal about Carter’s progression as a composer? Elliott Carter’s Early Flops Reveal a Budding Musical Master 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

Lee marvels at how relaxed folks are here, even at the ballet company. She was South Korea’s superstar ballerina. Now, she’s given it up to try to make it in America. 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

What has changed — in ballet and elsewhere — is the power of social media to transmit news at lightning speed, to amplify voices and acquire the power to condemn. After a Choreographer’s Suicide, Ballet Confronts Tough Questions 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

On the surface, his affinity for the traditional romantic ballets that constitute much of the company’s repertory seems at odds with the glee he takes in scrambling gender roles through his alter egos. He’s a Ballet Dancer. And a Singer. And a Drag Queen. 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

And yet it’s the music, melodic and brimming with yearning lyricism, that has given the ballet a lasting afterlife. Revisiting ‘The Fairy’s Kiss,’ a Ballet About an Artist’s Destiny 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

He did like two or three orchestral readings of his songs to ballet. No singer, just the songs. Questlove brings Prince’s work back with an orchestra 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

“It was not quite ballet by day, machinery installation by night, but we sort of worked it in around their schedule,” Mr. Mace said. The Met’s Sputniks, Once Stuck in Orbit, Go Back in Service 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

The financial stakes for movies are very different to making a ballet. Benjamin Millepied Uses Movement to Reinvent ‘Carmen’ on Camera 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

“I’m back at feeling ecstatic about having a ballet in a big Broadway musical.” In ‘Little Dancer,’ Susan Stroman shows the art of perseverance

A latecomer to ballet training, he grew up taking tap lessons and, more seriously, studying classical flute. Can Dance Make a More Just America? Donald Byrd Is Working on It 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

“In the spring, we will announce a new management configuration for our ballet troupe.” ArtsBeat: Another Shuffle in Russian Ballet World as Scandal Fallout Continues 2013-12-10T17:56:34Z

Advertisement Advertisement A few of Ms. Tharp’s ballets are modern classics. Duets That Reflect the World Offstage 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

But most try to find a challenge in the ballet, somewhere. What’s it like to dance ‘The Nutcracker’? It’s a marathon of pain. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

The war-weary audience, which attacked the artists with hat pins or anything else handy, found the ballet “Teutonic” and “Bolshevik.” Music Walk in Carlsbad and a 'Parade' at the Hammer 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

And they suggest that the only ballets in which Ms. Farrell is interested are those in which she danced. Dance Review: Casting Balanchine the Way the Master Did 2010-11-22T22:36:00Z

Some pictures from Leven’s personal collection were re-photographed for “Coda,” and so we see her as a young woman, nude, made up, in ballet poses. A Photographer, Her Muse, and the Hunger for Fame 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

You don't paint a review of a painting or express your opinion of a ballet in the international language of dance. Nicholas Lezard: putting the case for professional critics 2013-07-19T10:00:00Z

This means that these companies were founded in 1985, a period that surely nobody in the world’s great ballet capitals thought of as one of expansion. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: Dreaming of Snow 2010-12-23T12:00:37Z

Was there much Chinese about these ballets besides the dancers performing them? What’s Chinese About Chinese Ballet? 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

“Ballet is woman,” he said — but his kind of ballet was always a man’s view of woman, and a solely heterosexual one. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Mejia, 21, was born in Fort Worth, where he started ballet training at age 3. City Ballet Promotes Dancers Amid Veteran Departures 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Ratmansky is known for the dynamism and wit of his ballets, for his belief in the expressive potential of classical dance, and his ability to draw technically exciting, dramatically nuanced performances out of dancers. A Leading Choreographer Joins the War Effort, With Classical Ballet 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

It is reminiscent, in some ways, of the ending of Stravinsky’s other ballet from the same period, “Apollo.” Revisiting ‘The Fairy’s Kiss,’ a Ballet About an Artist’s Destiny 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

In ballet, Ms. Copeland is rarely so voluptuous a mover; technique aside, what you yearn for is more expansiveness in her dancing. Misty Copeland Makes Her Broadway Debut in ‘On the Town’ 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Swan Lake is so popular we forget that its complex musical history tends to leave ballet and classical fans on opposite sides of a divide. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake 2010-04-08T21:50:00Z

Unlike PNB, the Monte Carlo ballet is primarily a touring company, with only a few resident programs and much of the year spent traveling. Moving on: PNB bids bon voyage to principal Lucien Postlewaite 2012-06-06T21:12:03Z

They confront us with a problematic but beautiful central issue of ballet: its highly ambiguous sexism. The Ambiguous Sexism of Marius Petipa, Ballet’s Towering Master 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

It turns out, however, that she and the ballerina are old friends from ballet class. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z

She took ballet classes as a child, but – the odd nightclub aside – hasn't been near a dancefloor for years. Michael Clark steps it up at Tate Modern 2010-08-24T20:29:00Z

But in his determination to find his own take on the ballet and set it apart from Ashton's classic 1948 version Bintley is mining the story for a more profound subtext of suffering and redemption. This week's new dance 2010-11-20T00:07:00Z

Creating a ballet for the company involves so many variables: musicians, ballerinas, costume fittings, lighting. ‘Ballet 422’: A young choreographer’s nervous rise at New York City Ballet 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

It was reconstructed, staged and slightly revised by the troupe’s ballet master in chief, Mikhail Messerer, who is connected to the work by family. Mikhailovsky Ballet Performs ‘Flames in Paris’ in U.S. Debut 2014-11-16T05:00:00Z

After all, the same officials in charge of the gala’s health protocols will be the ones shepherding the dancers back to the studio when the ballet reopens. Perspective | The Washington Ballet thought a virtual fundraiser was safe. But it still may have put artists at risk. 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

"Don Quixote, or Fantasies of a Madman" is one of Boris Eifman's most enjoyable works, brisk storytelling and lively dance that gingerly sends up classical ballet while providing a reasonably fine modern equivalent. New twists and turns enliven 'Don Quixote' 2011-04-22T15:34:23Z

Then Mr. Tang led a lively account of the ballet music that Verdi wrote for the 1865 Paris production of “Macbeth.” Belgrade Philharmonic Performs at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

In this deeply affecting piece, which is another critique of ballet, Ms. Doisneau talks about the toll of serving as a flesh-and-bone backdrop for the company stars. Dance Review: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo at the Joyce 2012-12-21T22:29:13Z

But neither of those is about youth ballet. The Best Films and TV Shows to Stream Over the Holidays 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

And these lifts are reiterated; they trace slow, sighing, rainbow-like arcs, to and fro, there and back, so that the ballet ends in an image of perpetual motion. Dance Review: Frederick Ashton Celebrated by the Sarasota Ballet 2014-05-05T21:49:58Z

The ballet’s board of directors granted the request on Thursday night. City Ballet’s Peter Martins Takes Leave of Absence After Misconduct Accusation 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Bradley advised Webre to build a continuous, immersive ballet program into the school day, rather than offering a workshop every now and then. Washington Ballet’s Septime Webre turned company into a big tent 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

But when her body changed and ballet was no longer an option, she looked elsewhere. A Choreographer Who Mingles the Ordinary and the Odd 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

And then there’s “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes,” a work that shows us — wonderfully — a postmodern view of ballet’s sexism. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Presents ‘A Month in the Country’ 2013-05-22T21:48:48Z

There is no ballet danced better by American Ballet Theater than Frederick Ashton’s 52-minute “The Dream,” 50 years old this year. American Ballet Theater’s Shakespeare Program 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

This “Paquita” is a newly minted “homage to the golden age of classical ballet.” Review | Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Paquita’: Glittering dancing but a skimpy story 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Her mother’s boss promises her training with a special teacher of ballet in Moscow, even hinting at a position with the Moscow Ballet. ‘The Guest Room’ review: A bachelor party devolves into murder 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Recently I participated in an event for ballet supporters where I read a short passage from the book and told the story. Raven Girl takes wing and flies onstage 2013-05-04T06:00:35Z

With squared ballet dancer shoulders, Jerzon is a survivor; this is the case for many young men and women in Cuba. Sad eyes and a yearning heart: A young man’s daily odyssey in post-Castro Havana 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z

In his packaging of ballet, he found commercial success, attracting audiences in New York packed, it always seems, with Russians. Meet the Impresario Who Makes Dance Happen 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

For a twist on eveningwear, tuxedos with an asymmetrical slant are worn with multiple strapped Mary Jane-style shoes or ballet shoes topped with bows. Classic and fanciful both permeate Milan runways 2011-06-19T23:02:08Z

One reason Red Army was such a powerhouse was the gifts of its coach and hockey visionary Anatoly Tarasov, an innovative father figure who studied chess and ballet for concepts to pass onto his team. 'Red Army' a winning look at Soviet-era's storied ice hockey team 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

The 2014 competition runs from Saturday through June 29, with 92 competitors vying for medals, scholarships, cash and maybe a job offer from a ballet company. Ballet competition opens Saturday in Jackson 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

How did you get to know ballet so well? A Witty Mastermind of Les Ballets Trockadero Comes Home 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

“He already liked a long, elegant line and a length of phrasing, so you can see why ballet directors saw potential in the work.” Kim Brandstrup Brings ‘Jeux’ and Follows a Different Path to City Ballet 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

That’s an old complaint, long shared by ballet insiders, experts and reformers. Review: ‘Titicut Follies’ Tries to Deliver a Shock to Ballet 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

The slightly cartoonish rather than opulent sets were by Oliver Smith, who had also designed the set for “Fancy Free,” the Jerome Robbins ballet on which “On the Town” was based. An “On the Town” for Our Time 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

“I look forward to sharing with viewers the incredible variety and richness of our national culture — from ballet to the blues, from barbecue to the backbeat,” he said. ArtsBeat Blog: Wynton Marsalis to Join CBS 2011-12-15T21:50:01Z

The Arts Council's opera and ballet review centres "around how the organisations work and the level of investment they receive from the Arts Council in line with this", according to documentation. Arts Council considers opera shakeup as ENO posts £2.2m loss 2013-01-16T17:32:45Z

The ballet, about a Russian village wedding, lingers on the bride’s sense of loss as she leaves her family to marry a man she barely knows, and on her mother’s sorrow. Why Is Bronislava Nijinska Still Waiting in the Wings? 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

Beyond fundraising, how do these events serve ballet? Review: City Ballet Dresses Up for Another Fashion Letdown 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

“Are we sweating a little bit?” the ballet master Carlos Lopez said leaning forward and squinting into computer screen. Dancers Still Need Daily Class. No Barre? Just Grab a Chair. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

In its original incarnation, Rameau’s work was an acte de ballet, in which the dance was the main attraction, well ahead of the music. On Site Opera Brings ‘Pygmalion’ to Madame Tussauds 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

He was considered instrumental in developing the Cuban style of ballet, which seeks to imbue classical rigor with the physicality of Latin dance. Fernando Alonso, a Founder of Cuban Ballet, Dies at 98 2013-08-03T01:42:20Z

So the play becomes a kind of emotional ballet of conflicting impulses, a nuanced contemplation of the romantic confusion wrought by a combination of natural and artificial interactions. Review | You can’t find the love of your life by taking a pill. But what if you could? 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

The rehearsal was filmed, which meant “hours and hours of Balanchine working on that ballet,” Hochman said. Balanchine, the Teacher: ‘I Pushed Everybody’ 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

In the professional ballet world, companies beyond Pacific Northwest Ballet are beginning to show more openness to gender-neutral casting. A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

Later, as the climax to Schaal's woebegone take on the Little Match Girl story, Braunohler sweeps in as Satan and the pair perform a flat-footed ballet. Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen ? review 2011-08-17T18:50:01Z

It’s not always easy for ballet dancers to adapt to these demands, and Mr. McGregor said he wasn’t sure at first about giving “Infra” to the Joffrey. Dance: Joffrey Ballet Takes on Wayne McGregor?s ?Infra? 2012-02-12T15:31:06Z

Dance fans liken these to the notorious 32 fouetté turns of ballet; I prefer them because of their more percussive nature and especially the exciting stillness with which they end. Erasing Borders Festival Focuses on Indian Dance 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Also the name of a 19th-century ballet, the title, translated from French, is “daisy,” generally recognized as a flower of innocence. Dance Review: Bodies Like Statues, Beginning to Move and Then Set Free 2010-10-11T21:57:00Z

Helping ballet schools and out-of-work artists survive was, for obvious reasons, tougher than usual this year, until now. Perspective | MacKenzie Scott’s multimillion-dollar message: Art is essential everywhere, not just in museums and theaters 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

“We have to be realistic,” said Sophie Simpson, its ballet company sales manager. Brown Point Shoes Arrive, 200 Years After White Ones 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

This is ballet exploded from within, so that arms become airily whirling tendrils, extending from a physical core that is itself in constant motion, and legs probe the side-lit darkness like antennae. Sylvie Guillem: 6000 Miles Away ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:05Z

She said she would love a shot at performing lead roles in “Symphony in Three Movements” and “La Valse,” Balanchine ballets with inherent drama. A ‘Rogue Ballerina’ Gives a Candid Account of Ballet Culture 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

There are so many tiny details, and it’s so three-dimensional for a ballet dancer. Whelan and Brooks: Blurring Creation and Interpretation in Dance 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

But the classical pas de deux takes this ballet to another universe. Dance Review: School of American Ballet, at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-06-07T21:21:09Z

Yet a ballerina is not just an executant; she is also a controlling force whose command of a ballet’s stage worlds and its internal dynamics register as thought. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Fresh Adventures and Jazzy Footwork 2010-06-03T22:29:00Z

For the most part, the choreography reflects the awkward elegance prevalent in so much contemporary ballet — harsh, robotic, angular. Dance Review: ‘Princess Crocodile,’ New Work From LeeSaar the Company 2014-04-13T21:40:49Z

American Ballet Theatre soloist Sarah Lane, Portman's ballet double for the psychological thriller, said at the weekend that she had been the victim of a cover-up. Darren Aronofsky and Mila Kunis deny Black Swan cover-up claims 2011-03-29T09:57:49Z

I was the worst at my ballet school. Don’t Box Them In. Their Dancing Belongs to the World. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

He'd say: 'Watch how they use the lighting at the ballet to create atmosphere on stage.' How the Spiders from Hull changed rock 2013-05-22T15:59:17Z

Deuce Coupe,” her 1973 work for the Joffrey Ballet that allowed modern dance to mingle with classical ballet as never before, was set to Beach Boys songs already years old. Review: From Twyla Tharp, 2 New Pieces for Her Anniversary Tour 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Some of the dancers wear ballet flats and pointe-shoes, others sneakers or trainers. Birmingham Royal Ballet ? Pointes of View 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

The costume shop needs time between premieres and costume-heavy story ballets. City Ballet’s New Team Gets a Crash Course in Season Planning 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Overseas, he’s long been hailed as a groundbreaking experimentalist, stretching ballet to unprecedented extremes, daringly questioning convention. Review: William Forsythe Brings a New Playlist to Boston 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

Thais Picchi, a former ballet dancer turned civic rights trainer in the capital Brasilia, dove into mermaiding after a personal crisis four years ago prompted her to find ways to reduce stress. 'Mermaids' find raison d'etre in Brazil 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

The Bolshoi Theater is going ahead with a ballet based on the life of legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev this December, its general director said on Friday. Bolshoi Sets ‘Nureyev’ Ballet for December Despite Director’s Arrest 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z

“To see a stage full of dancers of color dancing ballet — how beautiful is that?” said Andrea Long-Naidu, who danced at City Ballet before joining Dance Theater. Dance Theater of Harlem: Arthur Mitchell’s Dream at 50 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

But given his glorious talent – he is, without question, the most naturally gifted male ballet dancer of his generation – his jaded attitude and cynical attitudinising are dispiriting. Coppélia – review 2013-07-13T23:05:57Z

Her demeanor may be sunny, but her approach is no-nonsense: We’re going to focus on ballet for the next hour, so get it together. Dancers Still Need Daily Class. No Barre? Just Grab a Chair. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

But what can seem a simple gesture of appreciation is in fact a highly codified practice, with different ballet companies obeying different rules and traditions. The Rules and Hazards of Presenting Flowers in Ballet 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

I wasn't dead keen on the set designs, and the choreography and 'look' of the hounds in the final ballet seemed rather teenage theatre school-ish. Reader reviews: your take on Timon of Athens and Metamorphosis Titian 2012 2012-07-20T14:00:00Z

A nighttime train robbery, for example, becomes an almost romantic ballet of light and shadow. 5 examples of cinematographer Deakins' best work 2012-11-08T21:23:14Z

For her, the school is not just a place for ballet; it’s also a home away from home. ‘On Pointe’: The Real-Life Adventures of Some Very Young Dancers 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

In the 1980s and ’90s, Forsythe changed ballet as we knew it, stripping it of grandeur and giving it a thrilling, starkly modern, almost dangerous edge. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

He is dancing in three premieres, including Mr. Wheeldon’s ballet, which tries to tell a story without falling prey to typical story-ballet clichés. City Ballet Readies Architecture of Dance Festival 2010-04-24T02:16:00Z

She was recently hired as an apprentice, and Stiefel plucked her from that bottom rank to star in his ballet. For a Washington Ballet premiere: Dancers, spacesuits and Velcro. Lots of Velcro. ​ 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

What value do Mr. Martins’s own ballets have? Review: ‘Romeo + Juliet,’ a Movielike Ballet in Need of Better Direction 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

How do you, for example, adjust the lighting for a ballet in which the dancers, as in Balanchine's "Serenade," are wearing long tutus? Pacific Northwest Ballet's Rico Chiarelli lights the way 2010-12-03T21:21:00Z

As it is now, this ballet feels like the second act of “The Nutcracker,” with one exotic grouping after another, or a series of random vaudeville acts. New York City Ballet injects incredible zing into new Peck ballet and other works 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Certainly they were by the time I first watched this ballet in the 1970s. Review: American Ballet Theater Opens Season at Lincoln Center 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

We get to see a bit of Cuban ballet but almost nothing of Cuban modern dance. The Week Ahead: May 8 ? 14 2011-05-06T19:26:23Z

A video showed rehearsals from a production of “The Pharaoh’s Daughter” at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, that Ratmansky, the renowned ballet choreographer, had worked on before Russia invaded Ukraine last year. The Star Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky on Russia’s Cultural War 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

And his plotless ballets in which he distills or deconstructs gave me the confidence to approach the “Rodeo” score with a honed principal of focusing on the relationship between Music + Movement. It Was Justin Peck’s First ‘Rodeo,’ and He Turned It on Its Head 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Growing up in Texas, Glau planned on a ballet career and was home-schooled to accommodate her rigorous training schedule. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

“We chose the National Building Museum because it has a lot of air in it but it’s also a nontraditional venue we thought might invite people into the ballet.” ‘I can’t get used to heels’: Inside D.C.’s gala season as it tries to bounce back from the pandemic 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

When Ballet Theater presents its spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Mr. Gomes will perform lead parts in nearly a dozen ballets; it is Ballet Theater that he regards as home. 2010-02-12T17:24:00Z

"The more I looked into the world of ballet, I actually started to see all these similarities to the world of wrestling," the 41-year-old Aronofsky said at a news conference. 'Black Swan' opens Venice Film Festival 2010-09-01T17:08:00Z

Those branching, cascading genealogical charts have a fractal elegance to them that is part military parade and part ballet, like the grand finale of an Ice Capades show. 23 and Not Me: As an adoptee, I'm not even remotely tempted to take a DNA test 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

At ballet schools, girls typically outnumber boys, who are sometimes coaxed to attend with reduced or even free tuition. Breaking the Glass Slipper: Where Are the Female Choreographers? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

On Friday night she made her debut as the Sleepwalker, the title role in “La Sonnambula,” George Balanchine’s ballet. Critic?s Notebook: A Season Brings New Faces and Insights to Classic Roles 2011-05-23T22:10:34Z

Last week a three-day symposium took place at the New York Public Library Dance Division on Balanchine’s ballet “Serenade.” Dance This Week: Satellite Collective, a Degas Dancer and More 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

But it’s happening at a good time: Pazcoguin recently published “Swan Dive,” an incendiary memoir about her life as a ballet dancer. Verdon and Fosse: ‘She Gave Him Stuff. He Gave Her Stuff.’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

But to a generation suspicious of hardcore ballet, 's technical wizardry and otherworldly aesthetic may well prove an eye-opener. Raven Girl/Symphony in C; iTMOi – review 2013-06-01T23:05:33Z

“So much money, so little truth”: That’s how the trenchant modernist choreographer Antony Tudor saw the overstuffed excesses of big-story ballets half a century ago. American Ballet Theatre’s ‘Whipped Cream’: A fleeting sugar high 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

After finishing his ballet training, Mr. De Luz joined Mr. Ullate’s company, but he found he couldn’t resist the urge to test himself in America, the adopted country of his childhood idol, Mikhail Baryshnikov. Joaquin De Luz, City Ballet’s Bravura Sparkler, Says Goodbye 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

Thursday’s opening program brought four works, each made during this century in a separate idiom: modern dance, Memphis jookin’, postmodern dance and ballet. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-10-28T23:41:39Z

When, in 1989, Mr. Baryshnikov turned from being a ballet specialist to a master investigator of American modern dance, Ms. Brown was a favorite collaborator. Trisha Brown, Choreographer and Pillar of American Postmodern Dance, Dies at 80 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere in theater, the ballet stagehands wait for the signal to start their work. Never Missing a Curtain This Season, the Met Opera Takes a Final Bow 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z

Chickenshed, a troupe that mixes musicals, ballet,mime and contemporary dance, will offer a double bill: “Tales from the Shed,” showing at lunchtime, and “Crime of the Century,” a dance/theater piece in the evenings. In Transit: At the Scoop, a Summer of Culture in London 2011-06-05T10:01:04Z

Receiving gifts from fans is another kind of performance for many dancers, particularly ballet dancers. Hermes bags, hugs and the occasional stalker: When ballet fans go overboard 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Moore attended Lucky magazine's "Lucky Shops LA" event at Siren Studios in Los Angeles recently in a sheer top, double-breasted collarless jacket, black tapered-leg pants and two-tone ballet flats. Mandy Moore's grown-up style 2011-04-19T20:38:46Z

Ms. Reichlen, Ms. Mearns and Ms. Taylor provide many such moments; they make the romantic effusion of the ballet serious, even powerful. Dance Review: First a Toast to the Past, Then the Frolics of a Bubbly Balanchine 2011-06-01T22:30:32Z

The most radically original dancer in British ballet history and a star on both sides of the Atlantic, Ms. Seymour inspired international choreographers of successive generations. Lynn Seymour, Acclaimed Ballerina and a Dramatic Force, Dies at 83 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

“Oh, Inverted World” keeps up a nonstop tension between the language of classical ballet, with its grace and impetus, and a far more idiosyncratic vocabulary that suggests the conflicting impulses of youth. Dance Review: Smuin Ballet Performs ‘Oh, Inverted World’ at the Joyce 2012-08-15T22:30:56Z

This new ballet is done to seven songs by the English musician James Blake, who writes delicate, poetic ballads over electronic keyboard and syncopated percussion. Review: William Forsythe’s Wonderful Love Letter to Ballet 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

She furthered her study of ballet at Mills College, in Oakland, Calif., where she graduated in 1958. Trisha Brown, choreographer who revolutionized dance in the 20th century, dies at 80 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

In 1957 that was a statement, and, at least in the ballet world, it still is. At New York City Ballet, Hits, Misses and Daring Dancers 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

The King's Speech and Black Swan lead the nominations with the story of King George VI's battle with his stammer receiving 14 nominations, and Portman's ballet movie gaining 12. Baftas 2011: surprises and sure things 2011-01-18T15:15:13Z

Operas range from Rossini and Mozart to Puccini and Verdi, and the ballet repertory encompasses major Russian and French works, among others. Music and Dance: A Bastion of Classical Repertory on the Asian Steppe 2011-06-07T11:30:06Z

As one insider put it, "One new ballet in so long isn't that impressive." The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace 2011-03-06T00:16:48Z

The ballet and Bob Fosse elements that she’s brought in from her own background, the softness and the sharpness, are welcome additions to the kick lines. Dance Review: ?The Radio City Christmas Spectacular? - Review 2011-11-18T22:47:37Z

In the ballet, “Attitude: Lucy Negro Redux,” which is to have its premiere on Friday in Nashville, Ms. Williams’s poetry is both script and part of the music. What if Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Told Their Love Story? What if It Were a Ballet? 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

Put “Dante” in the pantheon of great ballet scores that stand alone — thrive, even — outside the pit and the proscenium. Review: Thomas Adès Charts a Journey Through Hell and Heaven 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

It was nearly a year ago, and James Whiteside was doing what most ballet dancers do in December: performing “The Nutcracker.” After a Severe Injury, James Whiteside Is Dancing on a New Knee 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z

Twenty-five years ago City Ballet’s original American Music Festival, featuring an unprecedented quantity of new ballets, was intensely controversial. Dance Review: New York City Ballet Season Gala, With Robbins and Balanchine 2013-05-09T21:10:33Z

As the ballet ends, Clara wakes to find in her arms the toy Nutcracker put there by the strange but benevolent Drosselmeyer. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: The One Where Mom Is the Sugar Plum Fairy 2010-12-03T13:23:00Z

“All were defeated by cautiousness of the board and by the company’s remit from Arts Council England to deliver ballet to the regions.” The Woman Who Has Transformed English National Ballet 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

These days for a foreign company to bring a program of ballets by the Russian choreographer Alexei Ratmansky to New York is to invoke the cliché about hauling coals to Newcastle. Dance Review: Nina Ananiashvili at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-11-06T22:49:43Z

Her aunt took her to ballet classes as a child. Maggie Black, Esteemed Ballet and Modern Dance Teacher, Dies at 85 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The fifth, Maria Tallchief, perhaps the most recognized in American ballet, had retired from dancing and remained firm in her decision not to perform. Oklahoma’s Gift to Ballet: The Five Moons Ballerinas 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

“From then on, I trained only in ballet.” A ballet superstar hits Hollywood with 'A Chorus Line' at the Bowl 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

Stravinsky apparently hated how the cartoon cut and represented his ballet. How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music 2013-05-29T06:00:00Z

It is directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, one of the world’s most celebrated ballet choreographers but one with no experience directing musicals. Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘An American in Paris’ Brings Ballet Values to Broadway 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Now he is the establishment, a ubiquitous presence in the world’s top ballet troupes who has extended his realm to include Broadway. Review: City Ballet Holds Steady as an Old Guard Meets the New 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Even familiar ballet steps — as when Mr. Angle ends his solo by slowly descending in grand plié to the floor — here seem newly scrutinized. Dance Review: Vail International Dance Festival Presents 4 Premieres 2012-08-07T21:57:02Z

For a while, in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, he was among the most in-demand choreographers among ballet troupes big and small. Dance Review: William Forsythe?s ?I don?t believe in outer space? - Review 2011-10-27T22:16:44Z

Edward Villella, a former dancer with New York City Ballet and now artistic director of Miami City Ballet: He said the major challenges to American ballet were financial and educational. ArtsBeat: When the Critic Says an Art Form Is Dying 2010-11-19T22:46:00Z

Concise and romantic with the right tinge of darkness, this 2002 work is Mr. Wheeldon’s dream ballet for the modern age. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in an All-Rodgers Program 2013-05-03T23:15:25Z

Now Copeland, 40, would like to provide similar experiences to a new generation of dancers, especially Black and Latino students, who are underrepresented in ballet. Misty Copeland Creates Program to Bring More Diversity to Ballet 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

When she ended her variation, clapping her hands and resting one behind her head and the other on her waist, the rest of the ballet seemed an afterthought. From City Ballet, ‘Hear the Dance: Russia’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

He also founded his own animation company, Fine Arts Films, in 1955, where his greatest early success came with "Petroushka", an adaptation of Igor Stravinsky's famous ballet. 'Lady and Tramp' animator John Wilson dies at 93 2013-07-03T12:30:30Z

In them, Mr. Wheater demonstrates core movements and mind-sets practiced by professional dancers in order to achieve the seamless flow of a ballet sequence. Pas de Rooms 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

His father was a singer and his mother a ballet teacher, so it was inevitable, perhaps, that Milo gravitated towards the stage. Milo O'Shea obituary 2013-04-03T18:06:02Z

In the more experimental, contemporary dance world, dancers are regularly cited for their choreographic collaboration, but in ballet and on Broadway — where the chances of making money are higher — dancers are rarely given credit. Verdon and Fosse: ‘She Gave Him Stuff. He Gave Her Stuff.’ 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

An American ballet master with a native’s eye for the American scene, he was at heart Western. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater 2013-05-13T21:54:43Z

The triple bill, which runs through Wednesday, provides some sense of the range of contemporary ballet. Review: ‘Cool Britannia’ Shows Off Native Land’s Talents 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

And so an alliance between ballet households was formed, and now Schaufuss is supervising three weeks of rehearsals at Los Angeles Ballet Center. Los Angeles Ballet's 'Romeo and Juliet' a happy alliance between dance families 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

During a taping of “The Prodigal Son” in Nashville, I had seen him, stepping into the father role near the end of the ballet, take the prodigal’s full weight and felt the whole studio gasp. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: Here and Now Forever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

A good home cook is part ballet dancer, part chemist, part juggler, part anthropologist, part laborer, and part project manager. How to Get Your Kitchen Ready for Cooking 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Wisely, Mr. Denève played just the five movements originally written for piano duo, not the interstitial material added to the orchestration for ballet, which undercuts the work’s essential economy. Music Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-12T22:16:17Z

Nor do companies seem especially interested in resuscitating any of the dozens of full-length works or shorter ballets he created over the course of a long career. Roland Petit: A French Choreographer, Most Savored in France 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

He said he’d found the experience of watching performances at home quite different from the ineffable excitement of seeing the ballet and Taproot productions live. To go or not to live events? Here’s how some longtime Seattle arts supporters are deciding 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Set to songs by the Beach Boys — pairing pop music and ballet wasn’t the norm, either — “Deuce Coupe” was the introduction to a different world for Ms. Tharp too. When Twyla Tharp Made Ballet Modern 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

But it’s great to also do contemporary ballets and to move your body in other ways. From a ‘Super Bunhead’ to a Lead Dancer 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

This group, directed by the former American Ballet Theater soloist Sascha Radetsky, acts as a bridge between ballet training and a professional career. 5 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Your career has been pretty nonstop since you gave up ballet. Mia Wasikowska: ‘After a while acting leaves you feeling hollow' 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

The French artist Edgar Degas is best known for his kinetic images of ballet dancers warming up, dancing and lounging. Pharrell in Poland and Degas in Melbourne: Global Arts Guide 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Len and Julianne thought it was a wonderful, creative concept, and Bruno said she had lovely nuances in her movement but could use a few ballet classes to lengthen her extensions. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Animation, Rumer dominate on Disney Night 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ratmansky — the most remarkable ballet choreographer of our day — here gives prominence to the all-female corps de ballet, which wafts atmospheric fragrance all around, and three contrasting muses. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

The clip also features a ballet sequence, with the consequence that Glastonbury insisted that BBF perform their festival set with dancers. Brandt Brauer Frick say you can get (slightly) jiggy with it 2011-08-04T21:30:03Z

“Hadrian,” he said in June at a talk in Paris, will go the whole hog: arias, duets, chorus, a ballet. Rufus Wainwright’s First Opera Was ‘a Nightmare.’ He’s Trying Again. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Q. My mother and five friends of hers will be attending the ballet at Lincoln Center on several Wednesdays. Hey, Mr. Critic: Pleasing Foodies and Regular Joes 2011-05-06T06:20:08Z

For the sake of the story a boy must cut a credible figure as a budding ballet dancer. At ?Billy Elliot? Camp, Intensive Training 2010-06-18T21:21:00Z

It's a ballet of grandstanding effects: the dancers massed into starkly lit formations or launched across the stage in cutting, slicing lines; violent pauses filled by vertiginous leaps and crazy whirligig pirouettes. American Ballet Theatre ? review 2011-02-02T18:35:16Z

Pancho, who is mixed race, founded Ballet Black in 2001, soon after writing a dissertation on the paucity of Black women in British ballet. In London, Massed Human Misery and Communal Revelations 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

“It’s this little firecracker who was just out to stick it to the man, dancing next to the greatest ballet dancer of all time. The world that she created for herself was hard-earned.” Twyla Tharp: ‘Each One of the Dances Is My Hope for a Perfect World’ 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

As a jazzed-up ballet dancer, he doesn’t have the requisite sharpness. Theater Review: ‘On Your Toes,’ With Christine Baranski, at City Center 2013-05-09T21:00:33Z

And compared to those pieces, the humor of incongruity here is more subtle and scattered, hidden in the similarity between a step like a horse pawing and certain ballet classroom steps that come later. Review: A Tere O’Connor Dance That Ebbs, Flows and Weaves 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

“For them, it was just another ballet — and not the most successful ballet,” said Jennifer Fisher, a dance historian and author of “Nutcracker Nation.” ‘Nutcracker’ in May? The Virus Postpones a Christmas Tradition 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

He studied tap, jazz and ballet until he was 11 or 12, and his focus was tap. A ballet superstar hits Hollywood with 'A Chorus Line' at the Bowl 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

One of the key things that Black Swan got wrong – at least as an accurate movie about ballet – was the casting. Flesh and Bone: great dancing, shame about the plot 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

It’s reasonable to say that Tchaikovsky’s ballet scores — “The Sleeping Beauty,” “Swan Lake,” “The Nutcracker” — surpass Petipa’s choreography. The Ambiguous Sexism of Marius Petipa, Ballet’s Towering Master 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Because I’m not from a ballet background, I often don’t use codified steps,” Mr. Brandstrup said. Kim Brandstrup Brings ‘Jeux’ and Follows a Different Path to City Ballet 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

Does the company that advertises itself as America’s national ballet really think it is doing justice to these repertory classics? Critic?s Notebook: Injuries and Triumphs Color a Ballet Season 2011-07-10T22:01:07Z

But in terms of what she brought to the table as a ballet trustee, perhaps her emphatically modest assessment, while it seemed scripted by a publicist, nonetheless held a kernel of truth. Romancing The Stars 2011-05-13T20:07:13Z

No other work has so rich an idea of what ballet theater can be. How ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Tells Its Story Through Ballet 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

From 1975 on, she also began to choreograph, experimenting with joining ballet and modern dance. Lynn Seymour, Acclaimed Ballerina and a Dramatic Force, Dies at 83 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

But at this age, his first “erotic dream” becomes ludicrous, especially when it is represented by commonplace prim operatic ballet. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

Nearly every company that dances 19th century ballets uses edited, revised, hand-me-down editions — what literary scholars would call corrupt texts. The archaeology of dance: American Contemporary Ballet digs back to 1890 with revelatory results 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

What happened next brought together film and ballet, but not in the way everyone had hoped for. How Diaghilev's Ballets Russes kept British cinema on its toes 2010-12-22T15:08:50Z

Rhee’s choreography is shockingly conventional — a few positions borrowed from ballet and arranged with no special imagination or skill. Review: The Sea Is Rising, but the Dance Goes On 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

Thomas' company will perform its fusion of ballet, hip-hop, gymnastics and martial arts at opening ceremonies Saturday. International ballet event draws dancers to Miss. 2010-06-10T22:16:00Z

Mr. Mitchell was the first black principal dancer at New York City Ballet, where George Balanchine, in 1957, choreographed “Agon,” a ballet featuring a pas de deux with Mr. Mitchell and Diana Adams. Columbia Acquires Archives of Arthur Mitchell, Dance Pioneer 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

That’s not habitual for ballet dancers, who are more used to choreographers trying out only steps with them. Not Quite a Revival, But Still a Sinful Hybrid 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z

Ashton’s 1964 production remains a shining example of a story ballet, in which the narrative is cohesive and the ballet glitteringly alive. Smoke, Mirrors and Passing the Torch at American Ballet Theater 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

"It was ballet, but it wasn't ballet in the way you think of it — the 19th-century kind," Byrd says. Spectrum's Donald Byrd asks everything of his dancers, and his audience 2012-11-28T23:59:27Z

“We like supporting nonprofits but it would cost millions to fix the building,” Mrs. Grill said of the ballet company’s efforts to find housing. ArtsBeat: New York Theater Ballet Is Seeking New Home After Building Is Sold 2013-09-05T17:10:47Z

But Fentroy’s sense of her racial identity and her awareness of its significance in ballet have changed over time. A Ballerina Who Adds to the ‘Palette of What’s Possible’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

In a sort of baking ballet that shifts chocolate chips from the typical spoonable cookie dough or creamy cake batter to a hand-formed dough, a gem of a quick bread gets pulled from the oven. Chocolate chips in the round, but not in a cookie 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Sandwiched between, on Saturday, is a 21st-century choreographers’ bill starring Justin Peck’s “Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes,” his thoughtful interpretation of Aaron Copland’s towering ballet score. Dance Listings for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Fortunately, that kind of gynecological devotion is also missing from the ballet. Australian Ballet's 'Swan Lake' a royal disconnect 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

But she maintains her devotion to ballet, even though, as she put it, “Spike Lee will not leave me alone.” Misty Copeland, a Ballerina With Real Acting Chops 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

“The Nutcracker!,” created in 1992, was Mr. Bourne’s first full-length story ballet, and it has been revised several times. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Nutcracker? in London, Four Different Versions 2012-01-02T23:38:52Z

No other staging today so perfectly locates this ballet in the medieval age of chivalry; no other sets, costumes and lighting are so ravishingly satisfying in terms of color, style, period, atmosphere. Dance Review: The Mariinsky Presents Its Shimmering ‘Swan Lake’ 2014-01-31T22:42:57Z

But he wanted to transition out of a company that was so focused on full-length story ballets. Ailey’s New Secret Weapon: The Heroically Unmannered James Gilmer 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

In the film, you speak about the racial injustice you faced in studying to become a ballet dancer. Debbie Allen’s Technique? It’s All About Tough Love 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

With the majestic fanfare of the opening chords, it was easy to imagine the curtain rising on a brilliantly lit stage bustling with the full corps de ballet. The problem with a pianist who plays loudly or softly but not in between 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Still, she understands what the Taylor job looks like from the outside: a ballet dancer invading the modern dance world. A Ballerina Finds Her Modern Dance Home: It ‘Feels Limitless’ 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

He pushed Balanchine’s expansion of ballet vocabulary — the elongated extensions, the tensions of weight and balance, the stripped-down aesthetic — into even more extreme terrain. William Forsythe: ‘Isn’t Ballet Delightful?’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

The new version was a solid success and formed the basis of the ballet as we know it today. Emil de Cou on the ‘genius’ of ‘Swan Lake’ 2013-04-03T23:32:33Z

She took steps higher; she removed her tights for certain scenes of beloved ballets, she demanded roles; she quarreled with authorities. Goodbyes to the Lord of the Dance and Mademoiselle Non 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

“I don’t want to destroy this tradition; of course, Russian ballet is still on a high level,” Pastor said. Polish National Ballet takes steps to prove ‘we are a changing society’ 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

This book is a sensitive portrait of George Balanchine, the Russian-born choreographer whose profound influence on ballet is still felt today. Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Ashton himself called it his “poor man’s Pastoral Symphony”; he listened repeatedly to Beethoven’s work as he was preparing his ballet. Ratmansky and Lil Buck on the Spring Dance Calendar 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

Her mother made her study ballet, which she did seriously, until an injury at 15 caused her to consider other career options. For Michelle Ellsworth, Practice Makes … More Practice 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Her pursuit of a ballet career took her to Britain in 1937. Yvonne Mounsey, City Ballet Dancer and a Teacher, Dies at 93 2012-10-03T01:10:17Z

The evening began with two new ballets created by Martins. Ballet meets Valentino at glittery NYCB gala 2012-09-21T20:13:12Z

All these characteristics apply to “Jewels,” the trilogy of plotless ballets Balanchine first choreographed for New York City Ballet in 1967, now danced by companies across America and Europe. Dance Review: The 3 Glittering Tales Balanchine Tells 2010-02-26T22:55:00Z

After the curtain fell, I spoke to Schauvliege, who looked thoroughly bemused by the whole experience but nevertheless insisted that she was "for the ballet". Ballet Menu; Ballet Black ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:48Z

I grew up doing ballet and playing pretty competitive volleyball. Elizabeth Olsen, Superhero, Seeks Magic for Her ‘Sad’ Hair 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

There are 200 compositions, three symphonies, a Broadway musical and a ballet. Arts centre honours Clockwork Orange author 2011-02-15T11:49:16Z

When the Royal is in good shape, however, the same musical-dramatic intelligence infuses ballets old and new. Royal Ballet Seeks Next Link 2011-04-24T00:48:54Z

President and chief executive officer of the Music Center in Los Angeles and former chief executive officer of American Ballet Theater, where she danced in the corps de ballet from 1984 to 1988. Dance Luminaries Weigh in on the Conspicuous Absence of Female Choreographers 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

She was nervously hoping that Webre would consider, at some future date, offering ballet classes for little ones at her center, maybe once she had moved it to a better location. Washington Ballet’s Septime Webre turned company into a big tent 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

One show is elegant and nostalgic, powered by eye-popping ballet sequences and romantic Gershwin tunes. Tony Nominations 2015: ‘An American in Paris’ and ‘Fun Home’ Emerge as Favorites 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

After marrying his favorite ballerina, he went on to dance in Munich, London and Italy, performing in several ballets that allowed him to dance Zephyr, his signature role. The Dancer Who Made Beethoven’s Ninth Happen 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Yes, for centuries ballet has been a form of Romantic-Classical escapism — but escape to what? City Ballet Features Works by Christopher Wheeldon and Troy Schumacher 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Sufficiently impressed by Goossens's precise synchronisation of music and action, he proposed a film of Tchaikovsky's ballet to Wanger, and took his cast, among them Lydia Lopokova, for a return visit. How Diaghilev's Ballets Russes kept British cinema on its toes 2010-12-22T15:08:50Z

But there’s more to changing the racial makeup of ballet companies than the determination of individual dancers. Push for Diversity in Ballet Turns to Training the Next Generation 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, his offstage manners were largely exemplary and inspiring; and his choreography remains the richest domain in world ballet. At New York City Ballet, Balancing the Art of Transition 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, a versatile choreographer whose work includes flamenco, hip-hop, classical ballet and contemporary dance pieces, is the recipient of the 2019 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, the organization announced on Wednesday. Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Wins Jacob Pillow Dance Award 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Whoever he may be, this unexplained use of a supportive male functionary is one of the greatest yet most characteristic oddities of Balanchine ballet theater. 4 New Cavaliers Go Full Throttle in ‘The Nutcracker’ 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

National Choreographers Initiative 2017 Professionals dancers from around the country perform in four new ballets created as part of this annual three-week intensive. The week ahead in L.A. dance, July 23-30: 'Giselle' and more 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

Set to Russian music sung by the Tsinandali Choir, as well as the soundtrack for “Mother Night” by Michael Convertino, the ballet highlights the dancers’ virtuosity and expressiveness. Dancer Acosta Makes a Return to the London Stage 2010-07-26T10:00:00Z

It was mesmerizing, but the new music set a tone distinct from De Falla, and the applause for Garrido's solo drowned out the ballet score's own Introduction. Dudamel plants seeds for the future with De Falla and flamenco 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

They do not possess the flawless delivery of their more well-known and much larger Russian competitors, the Mariinsky and Bolshoi ballets. Mikhailovsky Ballet's 'Flames of Paris' makes rousing West Coast debut 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

For the audience, too, ballet offers a knowingly artificial experience: the contrast of midnight-black theater and luminous stage, the swelling orchestral music, the sets and props that play with scale through tricks of perspective. Megan Abbott’s Latest Crime Thriller Links Ballet and Sex 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

None of the major ballet theatres webcast their shows, that much becomes clear. Going out by staying in: where to watch the arts online 2010-07-25T20:31:00Z

In “Midsummer” the bug chorus is interwoven with the action of the story; they’re essentially its corps de ballet. PNB students land a ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ job 2014-04-02T23:39:37Z

“I love the structure, the architecture and the intensity of the musicality in these ballets,” she said. A Sugarplum’s Swan Song 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

The connection between spectator and dancer may not be physical, but it creates a line of energy that completes the vibrancy of a ballet. Watching From a Distance: What Gives a Virtual Dance Life? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

It was in that moment that I found the resolve to dance through my final ballet performance. Want to Feel Like a Russian Ballerina? Start With the Tutu 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

The other ballets on the program — Roberts’s “Emanon — In Two Movements” and Peck’s “Partita,” both of which had their premieres this past winter — were bigger and bolder. Review: At City Ballet, Bending the Form’s Rituals and Codes 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

“He’d wear it to the ballet with tennis shoes and jeans.” The Edward Gorey House on Cape Cod is the good kind of ghastly 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

As far as the ballet company is concerned, the competitiveness and the strictness? Sister act 2011-05-24T07:08:40Z

Teenage ballet students lounge on the sloping Illumination Lawn. Mark Dendy’s ‘Ritual Cyclical’ Unfolds at Lincoln Center 2013-07-21T21:42:34Z

The four pieces on the program all showed uncommon skill at matching ballet movement to music, both at the large scale of structure and in small, felicitous details. Review: ‘What Counts,’ a Lydia Johnson Dance Work, Attends to the Music 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

The occasion was the New York debut of his own ballet company — Ballet Corella Castilla y León, from Spain. Dance Review | Ballet Corella Castilla y Le?n: At City Center, ?ngel Corella and a Surfeit of Bravura 2010-03-18T22:40:00Z

But if you just look at it from the kids' point of view you have ballet teachers, tap teachers, gymnastic teachers, choreographers, then there's the academic teachers, their chaperones, their parents, the physiotherapists. Billy Elliot boys return to the stage for an emotional reunion 2010-03-30T21:37:00Z

Seldom heard today, this half-hour piece is filled with the grand, sweeping gestures so familiar in Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballets. The problem with a pianist who plays loudly or softly but not in between 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

Its vocabulary is a combination of mundane gesture with ballet movement mooshed into a trio for men. Twyla Tharp’s Rehearsal: Here and Now Forever 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Her work in British ballet continued in other ways, as a teacher and an adviser, and she retained widespread affection and admiration. Beryl Grey, Acclaimed British Ballerina, Is Dead at 95 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

In Peck’s ballets, choreography for women often has diminishing returns. Review: Justin Peck Runs Out of Steam in ‘Copland Dance Episodes’ 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

True, this isn’t as big a compliment as it sounds: in the last three decades very few ballerinas have given important performances in this ballet. Dance: An Illuminating Swan, Then a Pure-Dance End 2010-02-17T23:34:00Z

This version of the ballet, choreographed in 1974 by George Balanchine for New York City Ballet, has rarely been seen outside of New York — and, di Bagno thinks, never redesigned. A new 'Copp?lia' comes to life at Pacific Northwest Ballet 2010-05-28T01:00:00Z

Mr. Twist’s ballet is a reminder that what we call ineffable art may be a product of meticulous planning and execution. Review: Head Tripping the Light Fantastic in ‘Symphonie Fantastique’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z

In “Red Sparrow,” for instance, Lawrence’s ballet scenes were doubled by American Ballet Theatre star Isabella Boylston. With ‘West Side Story,’ choreographer Justin Peck brought dance into the Spielberg universe 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Now Mr. Corella and Mr. Stiefel must bring that commitment to their roles as ballet directors and switch the focus from their own careers to those of others. Dance: Angel Corella and Ethan Stiefel Move on From Ballet Theater 2012-06-29T19:55:43Z

There’s a ballet, there’s a trio of tenors, Furies, a chorus of devils: all that stuff some people disregard or think isn’t serious. Mary Zimmerman?s ?Armida,? With Ren?e Fleming, at Met 2010-04-10T04:13:00Z

I would use the ones on the inside of my front porch as a ballet barre. Alvin Ailey’s Robert Battle on His First Real Dance Shoes 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Long considered City Ballet’s most strikingly modern ballerina, Ms. Whelan, 46, is venturing beyond the traditional ballet world, where dancers routinely retire by 40, to satisfy her desire for challenges. Wendy Whelan Embraces Contemporary Dance 2013-08-02T18:58:39Z

Mr. Cragun’s American roots and athleticism were among the defining elements of what was sometimes called the Stuttgart style, an explosive, colorful form of classical ballet driven by storytelling. Richard Cragun of the Stuttgart Ballet Dies at 67 2012-08-10T23:51:49Z

Routines can include elements of ballet, jazz, hip-hop and other styles; sometimes cheerleading-type acrobatics are worked into a team’s three-minute performance. She Was Given a Deadline, but Married on Her Own Terms 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

In the ’80s a friend wrote to Robbins that she was crossing 57th Street and felt “I was in your ballet.” Review: An Aching Ode to Jerome Robbins’s Lost New York 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Last summer, the New York City Ballet performed four ballets by its founder George Balanchine, set to the music of French composers, at the Théâtre du Châtelet, and “Great Performances” was there. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Return to Manitowoc County: The State of Wisconsin vs. Steven A. Avery’ 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

The ballet takes place in a rehearsal studio, on a hot day. PNB to mirror Robbins' 'Afternoon of a Faun' 2011-10-27T20:39:45Z

In fact, they were in need of saving from one bland, structurally anemic ballet after another. Dance Review: Tom Gold Dance at Gould Hall 2012-02-28T23:25:53Z

The Mariinsky Ballet, which many of us remember as the Kirov, is generally known as the elevated, refined, instructive, grand, and most serious of ballet companies. Dance Review: Horseplay for the Staid Mariinsky 2011-07-13T22:23:04Z

Beginning on April 25 is the Here/Now Festival, which features 43 ballets created for the company since 1988. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Two of the four works on Friday were ballet, danced by large-scale companies, yet neither was a gala-style or predictable example of that genre. Dance Review: Sampler of Classical and Contemporary 2010-10-10T21:53:00Z

Ms. Goldner began watching Balanchine’s ballets in 1949, danced as a child in the 1954 premiere of his “Nutcracker” and edited two books about several of his productions in the 1970s. Critic?s Notebook: From Nancy Goldner, ?More Balanchine Variations? 2011-11-28T22:39:50Z

It encompassed craft and mysticism, teapots and mechanical ballets, parties and polemics. From bob cuts to Bond films, the Bauhaus legacy lives on 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

But there’s history, too, in the ballet, which explores two eras of activism on the Lower East Side. Katy Pyle and Her ‘Misfits of Ballet’ 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

When some male ballet dancers from nearby Lausanne, Switzerland, visited his parents, he was fascinated by their globe-trotting lifestyle. Can a Dance Class Free Men’s Bodies in a Place Meant to Contain Them? 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

The instructors and choreographers approached each session as if the very future of American ballet rested on our performances. Might Ivanka Trump Speak up if Her Father Guts the Arts? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Many of ballet’s repertory staples date to the 19th century, featuring the dainty heroines and princely heroes of the Romantic era. A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

Technically, her work here is closer to barefoot ballet than modern dance, but she’s a true modernist. Review: A Low-Key and Witty Premiere by Pam Tanowitz 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Rothbart — this ballet’s Mephistopheles — has become the “Swan Lake” character that no current production presents seriously enough. Critic?s Notebook: One Classic Ballet, Many Interpretations 2011-07-05T00:25:11Z

In ballet, Freytag said, the body is required to be in peak athletic condition. What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Rosemary Dunleavy staged the ballet selections from "Orpheus," which are gracefully performed by Natalia Alonso as Maria Tallchief, Native American ballerina and wife to Balanchine, and a puppyish Michael Rosen as her young American co-star. Review: 'Nikolai and the Others' bittersweet drama 2013-05-07T02:12:09Z

The project has also created an index of female leaders in dance, compiled a collection of resources for women in ballet and led campaigns to raise awareness about gender-related issues in the field. Do Men Still Rule Ballet? Let Us Count the Ways. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Alonso served as general director and became an innovative teacher by combining his understanding of physics, kinesiology and anatomy with traditional ballet training. Fernando Alonso, a Founder of Cuban Ballet, Dies at 98 2013-08-03T01:42:20Z

The pratfalls and generic physical jokes — one ballerina knocking down another, sometimes by accident — are fail-safe, yet the satire of Fokine’s ballet blanc is also exactly on target. Looking Fabulous at 40, and Still Happy to Step on a Few Toes 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Where Alford pursues the many forms of dance as an eager and curious participant, in her new book, “Celestial Bodies,” the dance critic Laura Jacobs focuses solely on ballet. Misty Copeland Pirouettes Through Two Books on Dance 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

He later studied in Atlanta with the noted ballet teacher Patsy Bromley. Albert Evans, Ebullient City Ballet Dancer, Is Dead at 46 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Sae-Eun Park and Hugo Marchand of the Paris Opera Ballet showed how the high-tension extremes of this duet, now commonplaces of the global ballet tradition, haven’t lost the power to shock. City Center’s Balanchine Festival Lacked a Balanchine Quality: Boldness 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

In 1985, Mikhail Baryshnikov, then the director of Ballet Theater, invited her to join the company, and throughout her long career “Romeo and Juliet” remained a signature ballet. Alessandra Ferri to Return as Juliet for One Performance 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

The programme on this release also includes new recordings of Stravinsky's Symphonies of Wind Instruments and Apollon Musagète, another of the Russian master's breathtaking ballets. Rattle's Rite of Spring 2013-03-21T16:09:20Z

"This particular ballet was really exciting for me to watch," Lipes said. 'Ballet 422' peeks behind curtain at birth of a Justin Peck ballet 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

The critics were not kind after the first performance of “The Nutcracker” ballet in 1892 in St. Petersburg, Russia. ‘The Nutcracker’ wasn’t always a beloved ballet. Early critics liked only the music. 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Ashton Edwards’s ballet dreams were dashed at age 6. A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

Nor was the Bolshoi stage the cradle of many household ballet titles. Review: ‘Bolshoi Confidential’ Peers Down the Centuries and Past the Pirouettes 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

The same was true for the Royal Ballet on the day before Christmas; the dancers seemed to genuinely love performing the ballet, and the audience responded with corresponding warmth and enthusiasm. London Nutcrackers Defy Logic, and Still Delight 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

According to a now annual pattern, he is especially commemorated by “Saturday at the Ballet with George”: two programs on Saturday will show seven of his ballets, with special events before and between. Dance This Week: From Balanchine to Bowie 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

“Raymonda Variations” is often a ballet in which to watch young dancers on the way up. Dance Review: City Ballet Presents an All-Balanchine Evening 2014-05-07T20:57:05Z

Much of the freshest choreography in American ballet is made by these two men. Review: Eccentricity and Offbeat Humor by BalletX 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Although he had heard Ravel’s G major piano concerto before, he said he had never considered learning it until he saw Jerome Robbins use it in his ballet “In G Major.” Andrew Litton to Lead New York City Ballet Orchestra 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Her teaching career really got started after the ballet dancer and choreographer Robert La Fosse asked her to help stage “Paquita” for students at Barnard College. A Ballet Teacher Changes the Rules 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

So it was perhaps unsurprising when Mr. Goecke, 50, the ballet director at the Hanover State Opera, confronted her, asking why she wrote so negatively about him. Choreographer Smears Dog Feces on Critic After Negative Review 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

I was flashy onstage, but offstage I was very proper, dressed in ballet flats and trousers. Tina Turner: By the Book 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s like ballet, but it is a lot more powerful. I think that’s why I like it so much. I get to show off my technique and tell a story.” Leesburg teen steps up for touring musical ‘Brothers of the Knight’

When Ms. Armitage was a child, she participated in field work with various scientists, but during her teenage years ballet took precedence. Karole Armitage’s New Dance Work Traces Steps for a Greener Path 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

It’s no longer about getting your ballet shoes and pitching up for performance.” Dance: Angel Corella and Ethan Stiefel Move on From Ballet Theater 2012-06-29T19:55:43Z

Director Bess Kargman's documentary follows a half-dozen aspiring professional ballet dancers at the Youth America Grand Prix, a competition for performers ages 9-19 where prizes, scholarships and contracts with prestigious companies await. Capsule reviews of `The Avengers,' other new films 2012-05-02T22:04:55Z

There’s much else to admire about Mr. Millepied, who was a star dancer at New York City Ballet; he’s also made many ballets for that and other companies, as unalike as his Los Angeles dancers. L.A. Dance Project Has Vivid Performers and Fine Repertory. There’s Just One Problem. 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Anchoring is a ballet kick-fight of a political, social and spiritual dance that makes “Black Swan” look like a warm-up in the green room. Letters: Reader Letters on Megyn Kelly 2011-12-16T23:41:22Z

When he arrived in Paris in the 1960s, he was a lithe ballet dancer, incredibly handsome with a catlike grace. Thierry Mugler, a Designer Transformed 2010-04-30T20:00:00Z

Therein lies a primal attraction of ballet: its evocation of the ecstatic moment is as fleeting as it is haunting. | 'Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq': The Unusual Story of Tanaquil Le Clercq, Artist and Muse 2014-02-04T22:33:11Z

But she was in great demand as a ballet teacher. Violette Verdy, Ballerina With Flair, Dies at 82 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

What’s disconcerting, though, is how their moral escapism leads to higher flights of ballet classicism. Classic Tales Of Temptation In the Woods 2011-05-14T07:11:21Z

Donnelly said he saw parallels between his last gig in "Billy Elliot", which is about a coal miner's son becoming a ballet dancer, and his new one. "The Commitments" hits stage with tunes, Irish lilt but no horse 2013-10-09T14:07:40Z

With more than 200 dancers, it is by far the world's biggest ballet company, home to endless intrigue. Bolshoi rocked by scandal and intrigue 2011-03-22T19:52:49Z

“Monumentum Pro Gesualdo” and “Movements for Piano and Orchestra,” two ballets that formed the program’s centerpiece, along with “Duo Concertant,” are extreme examples of Balanchine and Stravinsky’s ability to home in on austere beauty. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky-Balanchine Program 2012-09-29T01:50:08Z

Bournonville’s use of music in the ballet is also to be admired. Dance Review: Dancing Danes (No Holy Water) 2011-06-10T22:28:23Z

That evening, nothing really matched the delight that filled me the second I zoned in on a new apprentice, Olivia Bell, in the corps de ballet of “Symphony in C.” The Brilliance and the Blahs of City Ballet. (And Then There’s Solange.) 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Their London season in celebration of the coronation was dominated by the electrifying dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, and those of following years brought the ballets with scores by Igor Stravinsky first seen in Paris. Summer readings: The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson 2011-08-16T11:53:06Z

The most arresting and emotionally resonant work came first, “Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven,” Dove’s prayerlike ballet for six dancers, to Arvo Pärt’s spacious and somber “Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten.” Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet Finally Makes It Back to New York 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

“I have kept some references to the ideas of game and sexual play in the original ballet, but it’s not exactly a narrative piece.” Kim Brandstrup Brings ‘Jeux’ and Follows a Different Path to City Ballet 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

If you’d never seen it before, you’d know this was the greatest ballet of the season and you could believe it was the newest. At New York City Ballet, Works That Tell Stories and Don’t 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

The addition of more rules and formalized elements, some borrowed from figure skating, crowded Olympic ballet skiers into an uncomfortable box, spawning the technically impressive but artistically stunted routines that now transfix online audiences. When Ski Ballet Pushed at the Porous Boundary Between Art and Sport 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Fishman said he agreed to take the job if Mr. Lipp would replace the outgoing president of the ballet’s board. City Ballet Board Names Jay S. Fishman as Chairman 2012-06-13T22:14:18Z

After he made a ballet videotape and sent it round to companies, a San Diego troupe hired him. A journey of many steps leads to Washington 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

But when a great ballet is young, it carries a special frisson; the dancers catch the music with a particular fullness, and every performance, charged by the information absorbed during weeks of rehearsal, seems definitive. ‘A Month in the Country,’ as Experienced at Age 20 2013-07-24T15:59:17Z

Mine is fully classical; it’s more classical structurally and compositionally than a lot of classical ballets. A Word With: Mark Morris: Cracking Open A Holiday Classic 2010-12-02T22:55:00Z

To solve the problem of how to make Kenneth MacMillan’s choreography visible to people in the cheap, far-away seats, the company transmitted the ballet live on three giant screens above the stage. Beer. Nachos. Arena. Ballet? 2011-06-19T21:57:50Z

Mr. Holder became a principal dancer in the ballet of the Metropolitan Opera in 1956, the same year he received a Guggenheim fellowship for painting. Geoffrey Holder, painter, actor, dancer and Tony-winning director, dies at 84

The first act ends with the heroine’s madness and death, one of the most celebrated acting scenes in ballet. They’ve Come Undone: Giselle, Lucia and Romantic Madness 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

As its title suggests, it is a head-to-battered-toe consideration of a male ballet dancer that takes you from studio to stage and points in between. Review: The Incomplete Vision of ‘Anatomy of a Male Ballet Dancer’ 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Dupont also had to cope with the coronavirus pandemic shutting the ballet for long stretches and her dancers going on strike to protest planned changes to their pensions. Paris Opera Ballet Loses Its Second Head in Six Years 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

It’s important for any orchestra program at a university the size of the UW to be able to experience playing for a ballet, playing for an opera. 100th birthday celebrations for ‘The Rite of Spring’ in Seattle 2013-01-16T23:39:04Z

The sweeping pirouettes originated at the Dance Theater of Harlem, where he studied ballet. Gay Rapper Le1f is Embraced by his World and the Mainstream 2014-05-02T22:56:37Z

Moreover, Christopher Wheeldon, the A-list ballet choreographer with one Broadway musical to his credit, was directing for the first time — and is up for a Tony Award for both choreography and direction. Ballet stars talk Tony-nominated 'An American in Paris' and Broadway leap 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Robbins was exacting in how he cast his ballets, tailoring them for specific dancers; that’s how it works in Trockadero, too. A Witty Mastermind of Les Ballets Trockadero Comes Home 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

Basketball is jazz and ballet and hip-hop, the most aspirational of sports. Jess Walter Doesn’t Have a Lot of Patience for Memoirs 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

We don’t for a minute believe that he and Ms. Murphy are in love, but they demonstrate enough ceremonial poise to finish the ballet with some majesty. Dance Review: ?The Sleeping Beauty? From American Ballet Theater 2010-06-15T22:47:00Z

She also has actors descending from the utmost heights of Arena’s Kreeger Theater; an aerial ballet suggesting how whales get processed after they’ve been harpooned and brought on board is a stunner. Chicago-launched ‘Moby Dick’ splashes into Arena Stage 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z

For the evening’s final ballet, Abraham presented a follow-up to “The Runaway,” his hit from the 2018 fashion gala. Review: City Ballet Dresses Up for Another Fashion Letdown 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

This looks entirely Tharpian; the traditional lexicon of ballet is seamlessly extended — with slides on flat feet, boogying moves, through-the-body shimmies and vertiginous plunges. Review: A Triple Bill at the Royal Ballet Comes Up Two-Thirds Short 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Does the Tchaikovsky ballet “The Sleeping Beauty” tell a story, or is it just a nonstory? How ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Tells Its Story Through Ballet 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

The audition in disguise isn’t confined to the ballet world. They?re Called Intensives For a Reason 2011-07-22T15:29:54Z

“If we are lucky, I am wrong, and classical ballet is not dying but falling instead into a deep sleep, to be reawakened — like the Sleeping Beauty — by a new generation,” she wrote. New Center at N.Y.U. Focuses on Dance and the Arts 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

The Candy Cane costumes of today look mostly the same as they did when Balanchine premiered the ballet in 1954. Not Off the Rack: This Year’s Bespoke ‘Nutcracker’ at City Ballet 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

It’s an array of issues that are of specific interest to women and girls, to keep them safe and in the ballet work force. Do Men Still Rule Ballet? Let Us Count the Ways. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

In the wake of my company’s very public reckonings with how power and sex shape our workplace, some ballets began to feel restrictive and outdated. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z

In addition to ballet, they studied flamenco and escuela bolera, Spanish dance styles with a strong rhythmic base and a proud, lively way of using the upper body. Joaquin De Luz, City Ballet’s Bravura Sparkler, Says Goodbye 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

He acknowledges that ballet “has its issues” and that “if it’s not forward-looking and willing to change, it’s not going to last.” Advocacy group wants to see more Asian dancers on the stage, and more Asian choreographers on the program 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

“I folded the slip in half, unfolded it, and then crumpled it, uncrumpled it and left a little bit of the middle crumpled,” said Jessica Lawrence, 23, a ballet teacher, after winning tickets to “Hamilton.” Cheap Broadway Tickets Can Be a Matter of Luck, Timing and Apps 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Ballet at the Joyce The Joyce Theater’s Ballet Festival, Tuesday through Aug. 16, featuring six successive small experimental ballet companies for two nights each, is a sequel to its two-week season in August 2013. Dance This Week: ‘Fantasia’ at MoMA and Ballet at the Joyce 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Finlay resigned from the ballet; Mr. Ramasar and another dancer were fired, but an arbitrator later ruled that their dismissals were too harsh a punishment. Dancer Tries to Quell ‘West Side Story’ Controversy: ‘I Am Not a Victim’ 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Jonathan Fahoury, a member of the corps de ballet said that Peck’s ballet is one of his favorites to perform, adding that it’s free of affect or ornament: “What you see is what you get.” Justin Peck’s New Americana, Set to Copland’s Old 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Jacques d’Amboise, the great American ballet dancer, is in possession of laughing eyes and a crop of white hair, and he knows how to turn an interview into a show. Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

“I do think a powerful female figure should be valid in the ballet world.” Twyla Tharp Creates ?The Princess and the Goblin? Ballet 2012-02-03T15:40:07Z

That legendary Broadway producer-director had choreographed Billy Rose’s Aquacade, and when Mayer needed a climactic ballet for Bathing Beauty, he summoned Anderson. Bathing Beauty: The Wet and Wild Life of Esther Williams 2013-06-13T15:28:43Z

I love ballet for what it is, and I try always to ask: What can it be today?” Jean-Christophe Maillot Brings ‘Lac’ to City Center 2014-03-13T22:17:53Z

Odile, as always intended by the ballet’s makers, wore a tutu of many colors. The Best Dance of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Four years after the accident, she debuted “Apollon,” a piece that wrestled with what Holzinger described as the “lived experience of ballet” and the “overdone femininity of ballerinas.” Florentina Holzinger Makes Everyone Uncomfortable 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

B-Y: Bolshy: A Russian ballet company whose dancers suffer from stage fright. Style Invitational Week 1346: AZ if — balancing acts 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Going from zero to 100 mph may be foolhardy, but then again, I am inclined to celebrate grand ambition in ballet, an art form that falls too easily into the formulaic. New York City Ballet injects incredible zing into new Peck ballet and other works 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

"I danced ballet and tap as a kid and that helps, but nothing prepares you for this." Rio teacher out to prove 'gringos' can samba, too 2013-02-12T13:06:16Z

The project was audacious: a three-act ballet of a Shakespeare play, a difficult one that had never been adapted that way before. Bounding Across Space and Time, via DVD 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Common culprits are flip-flops, high heels and what few dancers would ever wear outside the studio — ballet flats.  Pain, satin and paper towels: What it takes for ballerinas to dance on their toes 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

“Fourth Position,” by contrast, gives us an adult professional; her figure is fuller, her control of through-the-body line far more mature, and we feel how classical ballet’s energy transforms the human physique. ‘Degas’s Little Dancer’ Spotlights a Seminal Sculpture 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

The Stravinsky is a lot of fun: transcribed ballet music. Joshua Bell to play ‘tasty’ menu at Benaroya Feb. 5 2014-01-31T21:18:57Z

It’s also Garland’s choreography, which deftly mixes classical ballet steps with moves and attitude from at least a century of Black popular dance. Black in Ballet: Coming Together After Trying to ‘Blend Into the Corps’ 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

The familiar story has been harmlessly, often shrewdly rejiggered to give the ballet just enough plot. Dance Review: ?Tom Sawyer? by Kansas City Ballet - Review 2011-10-24T22:02:52Z

The 1984 comedy “Hot Dog,” set in the world of freestyle skiing, included an extended ballet sequence. When Ski Ballet Pushed at the Porous Boundary Between Art and Sport 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

“Yet she traveled everywhere with her tutu and ballet shoes.” ‘Picasso & the Camera,’ John Richardson’s Latest Show 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Speaking of holiday ballets: The Times’ Jessica Gelt has a report on the young dancers who will appear in the Miami City Ballet’s rendition of “The Nutcracker” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Essential Arts & Culture: Museums facing fires, Misty Copeland onstage, and Broadway's new 'Hamilton' 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

But “Vienna,” a long ballet, needs more illustrious casting. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at the Koch Theater 2013-01-30T22:13:03Z

And she approaches the celestial when she performs a gentle ballet with her younger self. Review: Chita Rivera Stars in Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

"It is the oldest and most famous school for ballet and the traditions are kept so well here." Bolshoi Ballet Academy to see first U.S. graduate 2012-01-31T12:40:50Z

I couldn't do all the turns and big jumps you needed for ballets like Don Quixote' But like many exceptionally individual dancers, Watson's handicaps proved to be the grit that polished his talent. MoveTube: Wayne McGregor's Infra 2013-01-31T12:34:56Z

One might ask whether the ballet at least stimulated the modernist trends in the oeuvre of Degas. Exhibition Review: Degas: More Than Just a Ballet Master 2011-09-23T12:00:07Z

At 14 he gave up ballet for music, channelling his obsessive energies into “hours and hours” of practising drums. 'It's fine not to do it their way': Bret McKenzie on home, Hollywood and the oddness of fame 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z

Many are acquiring the stretch and polish usually demonstrated by the female body in ballet, movement qualities customarily used to convey vulnerability and emotional depth. The Place to Challenge Ballet’s Gender Stereotypes? In Daily Class 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

“Men don’t usually wear pointe shoes in classical ballet, but I wanted to here.” Smarty Party 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

The ballet turned its studio into what its artistic director, Lynn Parkerson, called a “jewel box” theater; chose dances that kept masked ballerinas socially distanced; and used barricades on the sidewalk to limit audiences. New York Theaters Are Dark, but These Windows Light Up With Art 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

It’s true to the spirit of the original ballet, McCormick says. This ‘Nutcracker’ celebrates openness, diversity and glitter G-strings 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Appropriately for the setting, the division of the labor of entertaining is spread around so evenly that the normal ballet hierarchies recede. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Bright Stream’ at the Met 2012-05-30T21:28:34Z

“This is the whole point of the center: to encourage work like this,” said Ms. Homans, whose 2010 book, “Apollo’s Angels,” traced four centuries of ballet but ended with the warning that “ballet is dying.” Turning ‘a Nightmare of Ghoulish Obscenities’ Into a Ballet 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

It was a breakthrough of sorts, the first time he was working with ballet dancers and a large dance institution. Christian Rizzo Is in Spotlight in New York Festival 2014-05-05T21:24:39Z

Just as the town of Sleepy Hollow was a magical setting for Washington Irving’s classic short story, the ballet inspired by that tale boasts enchantments of its own. Enchanting ‘Sleepy Hollow’ awakens the best of the Washington Ballet 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

IN the continuing discussion about the scarcity of female choreographers in the ballet world, one name inevitably crops up: Crystal Pite. The Choreographer Crystal Pite Pushes Against Ballet 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

The same can be said for the ballet. 8 Ways to Better Enjoy the Nutcracker 2011-12-21T19:26:35Z

“I read every book on ballet and dance, and then I chose to teach because I didn’t get the opportunities I wanted,” she said. Moving Over: A Powerhouse of Black Dance Is Retiring (Mostly) 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Tiler Peck, with typical poise and creamy musicality, held the ballet together as the muse Terpsichore. Review: City Ballet’s New Gods and Duos 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Now compare that to how few other ballets are being danced by any other company in the world over a whole year. Dance Review: Reintroductions on a Winter?s Eve 2011-01-19T23:23:54Z

But her reputation suffered, Garafola said, as the companies that hired her disappeared and her “ballets were forgotten by dancers and audiences alike.” Why Is Bronislava Nijinska Still Waiting in the Wings? 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z

Internally, the dancers must possess solid confidence if the ballet is to work. New York City Ballet sparkles and blurs in opening program 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

After competing in an international ballet competition in Mississippi, he received a scholarship to train at the Miami City Ballet School and soon joined the company. New York City Ballet Promotes Three Men to Principal Dancers 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

While “The Sleeping Beauty” offers moments for dancers to shine — its highlight remains George Balanchine’s contribution, the gloriously musical “Garland Dance” — it is still a Martins ballet. The Return of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Isn’t City Ballet’s Reawakening 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

In 1935, he choreographed “Serenade,” the first ballet he made in America, with unpolished dancers and outdoor rehearsals. Review: With Balanchine and Confetti, City Ballet Is Back 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

It was surprising, coming from Mr. Whiteside — who is a drag artist as well as a Ballet Theater principal — that his ballet was so, well, straight. At American Ballet Theater, New Romantics Can’t Beat a Greek God 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

The Met has tried to bolster its ballet company’s profile at various times, and the corps has occasionally offered performances of its own. Metropolitan Opera Disbands Its Ballet Corps 2013-05-20T21:43:54Z

Fuller, who had a background in figure skating, also emphasized musicality and fluidity in her ballet runs. When Ski Ballet Pushed at the Porous Boundary Between Art and Sport 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

But dashing carelessly in a new direction is also, in this ballet’s view, selfish. New York City Ballet suits up for courage and soars in ‘La Sylphide’ 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

“After all, you go to the ballet, you don’t expect one ballet to have anything to do with the next, do you?” he said. ‘Dancin’’ Revival to Boogie Onto Broadway in March 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

The repertory changes nightly, new revivals keep arriving, and there’s a wider supply of premieres and recent works than in any other ballet company. Dance Review: Music as a Gallant Ballet Partner 2011-02-03T22:30:10Z

This brings us to a more depressing side of Mr. Martins’s work as ballet master in chief: too many Balanchine ballets have grown gray and small under his supervision. In City Ballet?s Season One Jewel Still Sparkles 2010-03-01T05:54:00Z

By taking liberally from the traditions of both ballet and Cunningham, she enriches both. Hail, Dance, and Farewell to the Critic’s Life 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

I had lunched with this man and talked all afternoon, and then he brought another woman to the ballet! T Magazine: Vexed in Venice 2011-12-01T00:10:20Z

What will ballet look like in 50 years? Boston Ballet performs ‘Bella Figura’ at the Kennedy Center

Accompanied by either kind of sound, the men promenade and do ballet steps, but also more eccentric moves, naturalistic gestures, snippets of salsa. Miguel Gutierrez and Tere O’Connor Works at American Realness 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

A special highlight is the return, after 10 years, of Ashton’s “La Fille Mal Gardée,” a ballet that touches on comedy, joy and innocence in ways that prove profound. Ratmansky and Lil Buck on the Spring Dance Calendar 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

"People just didn't think they would see any invention in classical ballet, certainly not at NYCB, without Balanchine." Pacific Northwest Ballet kicks off 2010/11 season with 'Director's Choice' program 2010-09-15T23:30:00Z

The vaudevillian scene performed as part of that shoot seems incongruous, but there you have it: In this ballet, it’s the small, odd details that stand out. Review: Romeo and Juliet Leap to 1960s Hong Kong 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

The ballet follows the musical libretto rather than the myth by Apuleius, and Mr. Ratmansky is wonderfully responsive to the score’s glowing, undulating tonalities. Tanztheater Wuppertal Stages ‘Palermo’; Ratmansky Returns to Paris Opera 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

What if, as recent polls suggest will happen, a trim, former ballet dancer becomes our next mayor? A Rich tradition: Can Chicago shake political stereotype with new mayor? 2011-02-22T00:45:00Z

The ballet's overwhelming mix of beauty, complexity and power, she continued, “just hits you in your soul somewhere.” Can Ballet Come Alive Online? 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

For the moment, she said, she isn’t interested in running a ballet company. Wendy Whelan Says Farewell to City Ballet 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

It makes me feel sad for this world of classical music and ballet that it’s so remarkable that we are women because in my musical world I mostly work with women. ‘I Feel an Abundance’: A Composer Dips Into the Dance World 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Having more people like me is important because there is a class divide, too; people don’t necessarily feel at ease going to a symphony concert or a ballet. ‘I Feel an Abundance’: A Composer Dips Into the Dance World 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Love in each ballet leads to the deaths of both heroine and hero. Review: In ‘Swan Lake,’ the Drama Depends on the Dancers 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Nothing here was more heartening than the fervor of the corps and soloists; it’s been the hallmark of all of Mr. Peck’s ballets for City Ballet. New York City Ballet’s Spring Was Full of Revelations 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

The carnivalesque costume is striking, but I don’t understand the point of the piece’s collage of fussy ballet steps and jokey gestures. Downtown Dance Festival, With Isadora Duncan Company 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

It certainly can, but the debate shows you that Ms. Tharp has — sometimes — taken femininity in ballet where it hasn’t been before. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Portman, 29, trained for months for her role in "Black Swan," a melodrama set in the New York ballet world. Hollywood actors honor "King's Speech" 2011-02-01T00:02:05Z

Her parents took her to audition at the Bolshoi academy, hoping ballet would distract her. Natalia Osipova?s Forceful Rise in Ballet 2010-06-17T22:21:00Z

But the spirit of the ballet was missing. A triumph from the Suzanne Farrell Ballet 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

She found that the ballet style taught at the school fit her natural inclination to move through positions quickly, driven by a strong rhythmic impulse. A Sugarplum’s Swan Song 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Ms. Sherman-Palladino, with her vivid dialogue, choreographed lives for them outside the studio, too, showing the world that while a ballet bubble surely exists, there’s no such thing as a dumb dancer. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Bunheads Is Gone; ‘Breaking Pointe’ Endures 2013-09-01T22:29:35Z

In that ballet, she added, Balanchine has an angry Demetrius prepare to kick Helena — but then restrain himself. A Peter Martins Ballet Loses Peter Martins, and a Slap 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

She’s more like Mikhail Baryshnikov, who, after injuries sidelined him from ballet, dived into a busy touring life as a modern dancer, performing works less punishing on the body. Review | Wendy Whelan: Ex-ballerina refuses to play it safe in her dazzling second act   2017-12-10T05:00:00Z

She continues, “It’s the one ballet I would describe as mature.” Critic?s Notebook: From Nancy Goldner, ?More Balanchine Variations? 2011-11-28T22:39:50Z

She returned newly confident and deeply enamored of ballet. Patricia and Jeanette Delgado, Sisters in Miami City Ballet 2013-04-23T22:12:30Z

Twyla Tharp threw down a gauntlet in 1973: She mixed classical and modern dance to make the first crossover ballet, “Deuce Coupe.” When Twyla Tharp Made Ballet Modern 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

Grafting ballet on to myriad Latin disciplines – capoeira, rhumba, tango – it was a sizzling concoction. Grupo Corpo 2010-08-23T16:36:00Z

Because it’s a featured role in a marquee ballet, Ms. Pazcoguin said she was excited to have the exposure but “never felt quite comfortable with the depiction of the culture.” Toning Down Asian Stereotypes to Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Fit the Times 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

If the company programs something like its recent triple bill of contemporary Finnish choreographers, “we won’t get as much audience as for the classics or family ballets,” she said. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

But what hadn’t worked as opera or ballet ultimately succeeded in purely orchestral garb, particularly when swathed in colors as sumptuous and vivid as Prokofiev’s. Boisterous, novel effects on Prokofiev by Baltimore Symphony programmer 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

In an interview, she said that she was looking forward to being part of a moment in which several top ballet stars are being featured a mile south of Lincoln Center on Broadway. Misty Copeland of American Ballet Theater to Join ‘On the Town’ 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

The tradition honored here is not just classical ballet; it’s also commedia dell’arte. Review: ‘Harlequinade’ Returns to New York City Ballet 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Of past and present Billys on North American stages about half studied ballet in a serious way before auditioning. At ?Billy Elliot? Camp, Intensive Training 2010-06-18T21:21:00Z

Few were surprised when Natalie Portman was named best dramatic actress for her role as a ballet dancer in Black Swan. Glee and Network dominate Globes 2011-01-17T04:16:58Z

How many corps de ballet men are in those ballets? Dance Luminaries Weigh in on the Conspicuous Absence of Female Choreographers 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

It’s ballet galvanized by drastic impulses that feel very close to the root elements of contraction and release that underlay Martha Graham’s conception of modern dance. Dance Review: Reintroductions on a Winter?s Eve 2011-01-19T23:23:54Z

And “Bespoke” did more than any other ballet of the season to showcase the really remarkable beauties of the company’s classical style. San Francisco Ballet’s Limpid Sophistication Shines in ‘Unbound’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

But like Byrd’s note about what his ballet leaves out, the question about anger appears to acknowledge an awareness of something missing. Review: Dreamy Cowboys and a Ballet Bath 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z

Like so many Martins ballets, “Thou Swell” is often callow. New York City Ballet’s Fall Season Bursts With Talent 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Baryshnikov was speaking to a beaming couple, doing a series of semi-comic ballet positions as they said goodbye. The Magnificent New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

But the ballet is less directly about that, and, in the end, sadly inert. Smoke, Mirrors and Passing the Torch at American Ballet Theater 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

“These are American Indian people that have made this impact on ballet,” Russ Tall Chief said. Oklahoma’s Gift to Ballet: The Five Moons Ballerinas 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

In the mid-1950s, Arthur Mitchell essentially broke the color barrier in ballet by becoming the first African-American dancer featured by New York City Ballet. Three things we love this week, Nov. 11-17, 2012 2012-11-07T23:11:12Z

“Donizetti Variations,” a buoyant Balanchine ballet, is like a constantly revving engine and perfectly suited to Ms. Fairchild’s soubrette qualities. Dance Review: New York City Ballet in a Balanchine and Robbins Program 2012-01-27T22:23:54Z

In “Hen’s Teeth” a flock of six young women in winged and feathered tunics performs what might be a new-look idea of a dance for a 19th-century corps de ballet. Dance Review: Christopher Williams Works at Dance New Amsterdam 2010-06-09T00:18:00Z

After 53 years you might expect no less; yet the main problem is not MacMillan’s ballet. 4 Buzzy ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Debuts, 1 Fainthearted Production 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

The USA IBC is her biggest contest to date, “the real international ballet competition,” she said. Ling coaches daughter at International Ballet 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Idomeneo: Luckily, I don't recognise my son, either / I guess I must have nodded off in one / Of the interminable ballet scenes. Digested opera: Idomeneo 2010-06-24T16:25:00Z

In this duet, they wore white; throughout the ballet, bits of color appeared on their costumes, designed by B Michael, until in the end Ms. Bouder was in red and Mr. Ramasar in black. Review: Diane Coburn Bruning and Ashley Bouder Stretch the Rules of Classicism at the Joyce 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

An obligatory ballet — this is French grand opera, after all — became a delightful showcase for Donizetti’s orchestral writing, with seductive, exotic melodies and flashy solos for a number of instruments. Review: Donizetti’s ‘La Favorite,’ a Rare Concert Performance in French at Caramoor 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

When I go to her ballet recitals me and my wife go, and there's already a real detachment from the people there, just when you're that 'rocker family', standing there all in black with tattoos. 'So I'm a transsexual and this is what's happening' 2012-07-22T19:30:00Z

When did “The Nutcracker” become more than just a ballet? ‘George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,’ Back at Lincoln Center 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

Louise showed early promise as a ballet dancer, so much so that her parents arranged for her to study at the Juilliard School in Manhattan. Louise Slade, Scientist Who Studied the Molecules in Food, Dies at 74 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

Forsythe was once considered the unholy terror of ballet, a dangerous enemy of tradition. L.A. Dance Project explores flyaway dynamics 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

The result was an alliance with Marquee TV, marking the international arts-streaming platform’s first partnership with a U.S. ballet company. Masks, coronavirus tests and dancer ‘pods’: How the Washington Ballet tackled its new digital season 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Bruning created three of the dances, including the vigorous “Time Has Come,” a world premiere dedicated to the esteemed New York ballet teacher David Howard, who died last year. Chamber Dance Project sweeps in like a cool breeze

The bond between ballerina and corps de ballet, so central to Act II, is no longer in the picture. Dance Review: The Enduring Mysteries of a Swan Queen and the Maidens Who Share Her Fate 2011-06-28T21:55:07Z

Influence from the United States remains limited, though the loosening of travel restrictions may already be affecting ballet education. Cuban Ballet: Proud Past, Promising Future 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Nevertheless, City Ballet has remained of singular importance to ballet worldwide. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

This year is the 60th anniversary of “Agon,” Balanchine’s ballet that showcased a trailblazing pas de deux for a white ballerina, Diana Adams, and a black male dancer, Arthur Mitchell. When Two Men Fall in Love on the Ballet Stage, and Why It Matters 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

In August 1944, four years after his Bowl debut, Stravinsky conducted a performance of the ballet to accompany a full production that featured a young new dancer, Jerome Robbins, in the title role. It's an old-school night at the Hollywood Bowl with Stravinsky and Joshua Bell 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

The company has long been America’s foremost exponent of what has been called the Holy Trinity of classical ballet: Petipa the Father, Balanchine the Son, Ashton the Holy Ghost. The Changing Shape of American Ballet Theater 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Peck, a rising ballet choreographer, was the last collaborator to be brought on to the project. You’re the Choreographer, an iPad’s Your Stage 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

They know this ballet intimately and made it newly engrossing. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z

Meanwhile the exposure of the unadorned body has even started to alter the world of ballet. Nakedness in Dance, Taken to Extremes 2012-08-16T12:00:00Z

Carter continued composing until shortly before his death, his works ranging from ballets to vocal, instrumental, chamber and orchestral pieces. Award-winning U.S. composer Elliott Carter dies at 103 2012-11-06T00:53:04Z

His rebellious move in 1962, more contrarian than calculated, was to make a dance to the not-modern, easy-on-the-ear music of Handel, a dance so light and lyrical it was almost a ballet. Review: Watching Paul Taylor’s Road Not Taken (and Lessons Learned) 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

Travelling is in Debicki’s blood: her father is Polish, her mother of Irish heritage and both were ballet dancers who toured the world. Elizabeth Debicki on Hollywood: 'I don’t think I even really dreamed of this' 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

It toys with that music, along with ballet conventions, but it indulges in them nevertheless. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Season Begins 2014-04-30T17:50:19Z

Dancers, shifting seamlessly between the weight of street dance and the elevation and precision of ballet, glide in harmony to classical music. Dance Review: Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Kyle Abraham at Lincoln Center 2013-08-02T21:47:35Z

The children in the audience learn how to watch ballet. In City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker,’ an Ever-Changing Menu 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

“I was bowled over that someone had written this story about what it means to be a woman set in this Petri dish of the extreme ballet world,” he said. In ‘Flesh and Bone,’ Moira Walley-Beckett Leaps Darkly Into Ballet 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Robbins was at New York City Ballet at the time, readying “West Side Story Suite,” an excerpt from the musical that included Anita’s signature number, “America,” and he was in need of a ballet understudy. Natascia Diaz approaches ‘West Side Story’s’ Anita with passion 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Finally Hansvick, Szentes and Whallon returned to demonstrate their versatility by showing us how Balanchine transformed and abstracted the treatment of women in Romantic ballet into statements of almost supernatural serenity. The archaeology of dance: American Contemporary Ballet digs back to 1890 with revelatory results 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

Pacific Northwest danced the ballet in its 1976 version, with instrumentalists in the pit rather than onstage, no square-dance caller and, unforgettably, the startling start-stop-start male solo added then to music by Corelli. Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet and Three by Balanchine 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

But there was plenty of ballet, said Jane Pritchard, the curator of dance, theater and performance at the Victoria and Albert museum. From the Music Hall to Ballet Royalty: A British Tale 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z

That life, like a ballet performance, is an evanescent thing, to be seized before all is darkness. Chase the Dream; Tales of Beatrix Potter ? review 2010-12-26T00:05:16Z

There are circumstances in which enthusiasts rise to special levels of mania: the arrival of Russian ballet companies, for example. Die-Hard Ballet Fans, Passionate and Partisan 2014-04-25T20:08:08Z

Photograph: Andrew Ross Scottish Ballet, Aberdeen & Inverness Sophistication and style are key to this triple bill, which takes its ideal from Frederick Ashton's Scènes de Ballet, arguably the most elegant work in the ballet repertory. This week's new dance 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

She writes of her love of dance, of Mark Haim’s “Goldberg Variations,” shows bits of a film of small boys intently doing ballet exercises. Dance Review: Texts (and Gyrations) on the Art of Movement 2011-03-18T22:08:29Z

It’s curious and, for some, possibly disquieting that Novak, who will continue to commission other choreographers, has chosen a ballet dancer to make that push. A Ballerina Finds Her Modern Dance Home: It ‘Feels Limitless’ 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Masilo’s choreography to that music is novel in its continual switch-hitting between bits of ballet and African dance, but apart from the comedy of seeming incongruity, the jumbling isn’t particularly expressive. Review: Dada Masilo’s ‘Swan Lake’ Offers Ill-Fated Love With a Twist 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

Muntagirov, whose parents were both principal dancers with the Chelyabinsk ballet company, started at Perm ballet school at the age of 10. Swan Lake role puts rising star Vadim Muntagirov in spotlight 2010-06-04T17:33:00Z

The composer is Léo Delibes; his 1870 score has several features that have never been surpassed in the ballet repertory. ‘Coppélia’ Returns to American Ballet Theater Repertory 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

Relatively little of his oeuvre has survived; the existing ballets have been extensively altered over the years. ‘Paquita’ at the National Theater in Munich 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

But here’s one hint: If the dancers are wearing knee socks instead of point shoes, undulating their torsos and lashing their limbs hither and yon in unremarkably virtuosic phrases, chances are there’s contemporary ballet afoot. Dance Review: First the Bonbon, Then the Main Course: Camp 2010-12-01T22:30:00Z

There is no trace of the original story — simply a series of divertissements, in which many of the solos are imported from other ballets of the time. Dance Review: In London, a Triple Bill From the Bolshoi 2010-08-02T21:06:00Z

“Awakenings” took form in music first as a ballet score, commissioned by the Rambert Dance Company in Britain, which premiered in 2010. An Oliver Sacks Book Becomes an Opera, With Help From Friends 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

The American Ballet Theater is scheduled to perform in the Cuban capital in November in a tribute to one of its former dancers, Cuba ballet legend Alicia Alonso. Wynton Marsalis in Cuba to "bring people together" 2010-10-04T20:34:00Z

After the death of Balanchine in 1983, Mr. Martins took over leadership of the company with Jerome Robbins; in 1989, he became the sole ballet master in chief. Peter Martins Retires From New York City Ballet After Misconduct Allegations 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

Mack is also African American, and the two will effectively shatter the all-white stereotype of “Swan Lake,” the most traditional of ballets. Misty Copeland to make ‘Swan Lake’ debut with Washington Ballet

They revised it, with much new music, as a ballet in 1857. With International Flair, Bolshoi Revisits ‘Marco Spado’ 2014-03-31T10:42:20Z

“It was so exciting, taking on this building,” says Croatian-born Winters, who grew up in a small town to artistic parents – her father an architect, her mother a ballet dancer. 'This building gives me so many ideas': creatives on the spaces that inspire them 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

“Even when I started focusing on ballet, there was a part of me that always wanted Ailey and always kind of dreamed of Ailey,” he said. Ailey’s New Secret Weapon: The Heroically Unmannered James Gilmer 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

She loves the ballet crossover of Christopher Wheeldon’s “An American in Paris.” ‘Make me dance. I want to dance.’ At 74, the ‘Chorus Line’ star steps into ‘The Pajama Game.’ 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

One morning, when he was just 3, Mr. Volpi, who was born in Buenos Aires, woke up and stunned his parents by announcing, “I want to do ballet.” Demis Volpi?s ?Private Light? at City Center 2011-11-04T20:47:50Z

At a recent dinner party in Manhattan, I heard one guest, a sommelier, liken a Barolo he’d recently tasted to a “male ballet dancer.” Is There a Better Way to Talk About Wine? 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

It reminds me of the Parisian ballets of Serge Lifar, where dancers are forever preening themselves and proclaiming “Moi!” without really showing us why they dance. Review: At School of American Ballet, Passing With Flying Colors 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

“Review” gives them a chance to perform sections from those canceled dances, or versions of them: Hollander employs the “marking” gestures used by ballet dancers during rehearsals, which form a sort of dance sign language. All the Ways to Fall for Dance Again Onstage and Beyond 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

She hires a contemporary dance choreographer, who has almost no experience working with classically trained performers, to re-envision one of ballet’s most famous and best-loved pieces. Coming to Chicago: A ‘Giselle’ That Speaks to the Present 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

To reconstruct Petipa’s original ballets, which have been altered over time, the dance world has increasingly returned to manuscripts in which Petipa’s steps were recorded around the time his St. Petersburg tenure ended. Review: A Skilled Ballet Leader Creates a Messy ‘Raymonda’ 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z

This made casting, too, unusual this year, particularly when it came to choosing Marie, the ballet’s young heroine. The Tiny Dancers Who Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Sparkle 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

“The Swan” and “Le Spectre” have long since become clichés of neo-Romantic ballet soulfulness. Mariinsky Ballet Performs at the Kennedy Center Opera House 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Both American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet, the city’s two premier ballet troupes, said it would be premature to announce plans for reopening. There’s No Social Distancing for Dancers. How Can the Show Go On? 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

The A B C’s of Ballet, Getting Considerations and Updates When in modern ballet should men and women dance alike, and when differently? Critic’s Notebook: Dominic Walsh and Others at the Joyce Theater 2013-08-11T22:38:15Z

“It’s close to the stage, but still elevated. For the ballet, I like to be closer to the middle in the orchestra section.” What’s in the box? Demystifying box seats and tips on finding the best seats for the opera and symphony. 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

As in Tudor’s “Dark Elegies,” dancers do big ballet jumps but with arms clenched by their sides: closed and outgoing at the same time. Dance Review: Pina Bausch’s ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ From Paris Opera Ballet 2012-07-22T20:20:07Z

The form is hers, complex, orderly and nearly dialectical: ballet, rock, synthesis. Review: Twyla Tharp’s Enduring ‘You Can Have It All’ Vision 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

I deliberately wanted to invert the conventional “romantic ballet” setup. It Was Justin Peck’s First ‘Rodeo,’ and He Turned It on Its Head 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Working with RJ Whyte Event Production, organizers retooled it as a stylish online event, combining taped performances with events broadcast live from the ballet’s Wisconsin Avenue NW building. Perspective | The Washington Ballet thought a virtual fundraiser was safe. But it still may have put artists at risk. 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

So often in other ballets she presents herself as if to say, “It’s only me!” Dance Review: Kaplow?s Farewell at New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T22:14:00Z

The following ballet of bayadères is carried by lively rhythms on an array of exotic percussion instruments, here joined by the ankle bells of the dancers. Music Review: ‘Lalla Roukh,’ at the Rose Theater 2013-02-03T22:56:40Z

They may think 'oh, it seems there is not really a chance for me to become a ballet dancer. London's Ballet Black wants to take success abroad 2010-03-29T15:47:00Z

Next week comes the comic, swashbuckling story ballet “Le Corsaire,” which gives male dancers in the company a chance to show off some bravura. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

The USA IBC is the United States' official international ballet competition. International ballet event draws dancers to Miss. 2010-06-10T22:16:00Z

Ms. Craig began her career as a ballet dancer with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with which she toured for three years. Yvonne Craig, actress who portrayed Batgirl in 1960s TV series, dies at 78 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

In the ballet’s energetic outer movements, I love the way Mr. Peck combines an informal atmosphere with formal games of arithmetic and geometry. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Wraps Up a Memorable Winter Season 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

He was cruelly cast adrift by the British after Popstars and Survivor, but celebrated by the Yanks on America's Got Talent for his sub-Donald Trump hairstyle and biting approach to deconstructing hip-hop ballet routines. Why endure London Olympic hell when you can live the American dream? 2012-07-27T17:00:02Z

In each piece, King uses conventional ballet moves which morph into something unexpected and original. Alonzo King LINES Ballet: Music in motion at Meany 2014-05-02T22:57:10Z

One day she ran into her old ballet instructor, who promptly took her to task for straying from the path. Greta Gerwig: ‘I don't need a man. I would have done all this anyway' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Ms. Thompson, your initial training as a performer was in ballet. “Some Kind of Wonderful” at 30: On the John Hughes film’s epic romances — on- and off-camera — that endure 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

Possibly the second-oldest work in the modern ballet canon, “La Fille” was seen as radical in its day, because it is a love story between two mere peasants. Suzanne Bocanegra’s Haunting, Beautiful Clutter 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Saldana also studied jazz, modern and Latin dance, but ballet was her obsession. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Although the ballet does have Mr. Ratmansky’s aesthetic, it hasn’t been tied to “a meter and melodic line,” Mr. Angle said. ‘How Am I Going to Dance to This?’ Ratmansky’s New Music Frontier 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

They’re still giving themselves a ballet barre day in and day out, and doing everything they can. A night at the ballet, in time for ‘Nutcracker’ season 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

The ballet opens in the Stahlbaums’ kitchen, a melee of cooks and canoodling. Flights of imagination in Cincinnati Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

The whole production shows us that he appreciates how Prokofiev’s ballet is poised between touching romance and biting sarcasm. Mariinsky Ballet in ‘Cinderella,’ Under Alexei Ratmansky 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

During 1946-47 he was involved with producing and composing music for a ballet titled The Discovery of India, which was based on Jawaharlal Nehru's celebrated book of the same name. Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar dies 2012-12-12T07:46:00Z

I tip my fedora to the superlative ballet choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, who also directed, as well as the peerless designer Bob Crowley, for creating an unabashedly nostalgic musical that nevertheless feels entirely fresh. The Best Theater of 2015 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

But mime is considered old-fashioned, and is often cut from the old ballets. In Miami, Climbing Ballet’s Everest: ‘Swan Lake’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Watching a reworking of Mr. Neumeier’s ballet 12 years later, the critic Jennifer Dunning observed in The New York Times that it was hard to imagine anyone successfully adapting the Auden poem to dance. Royal Ballet Debuts Liam Scarlett’s ‘The Age of Anxiety’ 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

The former ballet dancer is widely recognised as one of the UK's leading creative directors and choreographers. Profile: Kim Gavin 2012-08-10T07:09:19Z

It’s bizarre to see this company present this foolish ballet immediately after staging Alexei Ratmansky’s substantial and musically searching “Shostakovich Trilogy.” Dance Review: ‘Le Corsaire,’ American Ballet Theater 2013-06-05T22:00:27Z

Casting producers considered about 15 ballet schools, including those of the San Francisco Ballet, the Boston Ballet and Juilliard, before narrowing the pool down to a final three. ‘Break Pointe,’ a CW Reality Show About Ballet West Dancers 2012-05-29T22:07:57Z

In general, however, this aim for longevity and proliferation is not how ballet works. Dance: Premieres by Christopher Wheeldon and Alexei Ratmansky 2010-07-02T22:14:00Z

“Go to any single ballet again and again and what you see will change, depending on how your own frame of reference expands through travel, film, books, music, art and life.” Misty Copeland Pirouettes Through Two Books on Dance 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

“You can’t even be present almost because it was just so much and I was so tired and also doing my corps ballets as well,” she said. Farewell to a Ballerina With Borscht Belt Humor and ‘Legs of Life’ 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

On Thursday the company presented ballets by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Mariinsky Ballet: Don Quixote; Balanchine/Robbins triple bill ? review 2011-08-06T23:06:13Z

In her meticulous and conventional arrangement of a wide array of ballet steps, Ms. Peña is concerned with geometry. Dance Review: Jillian Peña’s ‘Guiding Light’ at Chocolate Factory 2012-12-09T22:58:27Z

Known for his psychological films like ballet drama "Black Swan," Aronofsky said the easiest and most humane way to show the biblical animal kingdom he envisioned was through visual effects. Animal rights group honors 'Noah' director avoiding animal use in film 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Time unfolds relentlessly here, a limitless resource, marked by a steady stream of precise steps, ballet steps especially, and the dancers’ methodical counting. Jillian Peña’s ‘Polly Pocket: Expansion Pack’ at Danspace 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

This paradox was taken further by Arlene Croce in a 1974 review in “The New Yorker” when, discussing the illusion created by ballet, she wrote, “The arabesque is real, the leg is not.” Nakedness in Dance, Taken to Extremes 2012-08-16T12:00:00Z

Ravel’s great ballet was languidly painted in polished colors, with a particularly lurid sunrise, but was light on primal, violent lust, even though the New York Choral Artists sang with customary gusto. Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

As a result, it’s the 19th-century repertory that people still mean in ballet when they speak of “the classics.” Classic Tales Of Temptation In the Woods 2011-05-14T07:11:21Z

"My parents were passionate about the ballet," she says. Arlene Phillips: Why I'm still haunted by Strictly 2010-10-04T07:00:00Z

Men most often perform this sartorial ballet when they are standing in front of blue-collar workers, young voters or the disenfranchised. Elizabeth Warren is sending you a subliminal message with her sleeves 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

He’s danced the complete two-act ballet in Sarasota, where in the coming season he performs several other Ashton creations. Review: Marcelo Gomes Returns to Honor Frederick Ashton 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

More moving still is the ballet’s final moment. Dance Review: Twyla Tharp?s ?The Princess and the Goblin? 2012-02-13T00:28:50Z

Nearly a week later, the results are revealed: Of the 295 kids who auditioned this year, 222 are cast in the 83 roles allotted to children — the largest number of any ballet PNB offers. PNB’s Stowell/Sendak ‘Nutcracker’ takes a final bow 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

An hour later, he was back in his office, meeting Iris van Herpen, the Dutch designer who created costumes for his 2013 ballet “Neverwhere,” for City Ballet, to discuss a potential project. Benjamin Millepied Takes Over at Paris Opera Ballet 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

And let’s face it: Dancing to spoken word is hardly groundbreaking, and neither is “Voices,” but the ballet world is sometimes clueless about the rest of the field. Review: Alexei Ratmansky Finds a New Voice at City Ballet 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Tudor was known as a great ballet teacher, and many of his alumni regretted that he seldom applied the inventiveness he showed in the classroom to dance-for-dance’s-sake choreography. Dance Review: New York Theater Ballet in ?Signatures 10? at Gould Hall 2010-04-25T22:26:00Z

So we're looking at things like comparing classical ballet dancers with Indian classical dancers – the latter don't have to wear tight-fitting clothing in training. Peter Lovatt: 'Dancing can change the way you think' 2011-07-30T23:05:56Z

Both the ballet and the musical, telling the tales of three sailors on shore leave in New York for 24 hours, were composed by Leonard Bernstein and choreographed by Jerome Robbins. Review: American Ballet Theater Opens Season at Lincoln Center 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

In these four pieces, Balanchine redefined the Romantic-classical quintessence of ballet: chivalrous, fervent and sparkling. New York City Ballet Performs Tchaikovsky-Balanchine Works 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

It was not only her first audition, it was also her first ballet class. That Goddess Quality? This Ailey Dancer’s Got It 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

“It’s possibly the most complicated gala we’ve ever undertaken because of the unique timing of it,” said the ballet’s managing director, Patrick Muhlen-Schulte. The Washington Ballet bounces back with the capital’s first post-pandemic gala 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s the political climate, but we’re paying a lot of good attention to it this year,” the ballet dancer Raven Wilkinson said. Black History Month: Pressing Forward on the Heels of Progress 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

One night after ballet, my mom and I watched. My Life with Rory Gilmore 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

A “Beyond the Stage” series introduces participants to the backstories of the ballets. From Washington Ballet Director Julie Kent, an all-star lineup in 2017 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Some of the ballet’s jokes have grown stale, but not its steps. New York City Ballet’s Fall Season Bursts With Talent 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Hearts and Arrows,” in which the dancers wear heeled boots instead of ballet slippers and perform to music by Philip Glass, epitomizes that mix of athleticism and classical form, Peck says. Perspective | Justin Peck, Misty Copeland curate ‘Ballet Across America’ series 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

He was also, in several works, ballet’s greatest dramatist — there is no contradiction here, for drama pervades his non-narrative work. Review: Balanchine Jewels from Paris, Moscow and New York 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

Northern Ballet is the only classical ballet company in the north of England and one of the UK's most respected dance organisations. Donors save ballerinas after cuts 2012-06-25T13:47:19Z

At first Ms. Kent’s Tatiana is like a shadow; as the ballet progresses the volume of her dancing fills in the silhouette, and Mr. Bolle’s vivid partnering brings them both to life. Dance Review: ‘Onegin’ From American Ballet Theater 2013-05-15T20:02:29Z

“For the dance world more accustomed to seeing ballets, opera movements or lyrical forms, Colin and Sarah will be a new discovery in their musical repertoire,” Edmunds said. Lucinda Childs' first new dance for her company in 16 years comes with an Arcade Fire connection 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

When Mr. Martins — then still a principal dancer at City Ballet — was being groomed as Balanchine’s heir in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he made one critically acclaimed ballet after another. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

The ballet won rave reviews after its debut at the Edinburgh Festival last year. Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Yet “Jewels” is one ballet rather than three. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z

But in the end, there wasn’t much for Reisen, constrained by the structure of the score and her ballet’s costumes, to do. Review: City Ballet Dresses Up for Another Fashion Letdown 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

This month, its dancers will form several “ballet bubbles” by traveling outside New York City to rehearse and train while in isolation with some of their fellow company members. American Ballet Theater Promotes Dancers Despite Pandemic Slump 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Hollander, a former ballet dancer who is also a visual artist, has created a new way of approaching choreography. In a Movement Parade Inspired by Water, Dancers Find Their Flow 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

Some women wore scarlet petticoats, but when ballet legwork opened them up to view, they lost the fun that they would have had when glimpsed in more ordinary social dancing. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Gala, With Costumes by Valentino 2012-09-22T00:16:05Z

Under a shower of rose petals and in tandem with contorting dancers, models wafted across the runway sporting shoes that resembled heeled ballet pumps. Dancing Dior kicks off Paris Fashion Week 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

In developing the piece, his first for a ballet company, Mr. Abraham has been introducing his cast to a more released way of moving than ballet typically calls for. The Choreographer Kyle Abraham Mixes Things Up at City Ballet 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

When the ballet premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on May 18 to an audience comprising Paris intelligentsia and soldiers, the reaction was one of shock and outrage. ArtsBeat: Picasso's Largest Painting Goes on View in France 2012-06-04T15:08:55Z

But she also leads me back to the ballet’s heart. Dance: An Illuminating Swan, Then a Pure-Dance End 2010-02-17T23:34:00Z

Photograph: Graham Wylie This is the second Alice ballet to hit the stage this spring: Scottish Ballet premieres its version just weeks after the Royal Ballet. This week's new dance 2011-04-08T23:08:56Z

It was more than a corps de ballet completing the picture; they were the picture. What Do Dancers Bring to a Halftime Show? They Complete the Picture. 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Number of different movements of the original ballet. 70 and still fresh: For ‘Appalachian Spring’ anniversary, a Martha Graham primer

The staging can be “dowdy,” but the ballet remains “indispensable,” writes reviewer Lewis Segal. Essential Arts & Culture: A 2017 rewind, lots of 'Nutcracker' and Bach, art and selfie marketing 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Scarlett’s ballet, also called “The Age of Anxiety,” has only seven characters but no fewer than three sets. Royal Ballet’s Focus on British Choreography Exposes Its Limits 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Through ballet, “I learned to work hard,” she says. The 'whoa' moment and Mary Corse: The painter who toys with light is finally getting her due 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

It also remains exemplary as ballet on camera. 2010-02-06T07:29:00Z

“And remind them with the help of Ukrainian ballet art about the terrible war which has been going on for almost a year.” An Ad Hoc Ukrainian Ballet Troupe Settles Into Life in The Hague 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

His very walk is chaos given a form as precise as classical ballet. | 'Diary of a Madman': Send in the Russian Clown and His Pain and Alienation, Too 2011-02-18T00:36:24Z

The Jennifer Lawrence movie "Red Sparrow" starts with a horrific ballet injury onstage. In ballet, injuries are all too real 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Thirty years ago it wasn’t unusual for a promising ballet dancer to join a company without earning a high school diploma. Exchanging Slippers For Schoolbooks 2010-12-03T15:27:00Z

“Swan Lake,” the most iconic ballet, is forever in development. Ballerina thrills as both Odette and Odile 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

“My own ballet career in abstract is not that interesting,” she said. What Is an Everyday Ballerina? A Luminous New Memoir Tells All. 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

“It’s kind of a miracle that anyone gets into a professional ballet company, when you think of all the different points where the funnel gets finer and finer,” he said. School of American Ballet Enlists City Ballet Members 2012-09-30T04:00:05Z

The stars of 2012 made Ballet Theater’s “Romeo” the envy of the ballet world. Dance Review: Ballet Theater’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-06-21T22:00:03Z

They are also aimed at nontraditional readers, who may think of poetry as the literary equivalent of opera or ballet, a privileged-white-male establishment hostile to their interests. Why Rupi Kaur and Her Peers Are the Most Popular Poets in the World 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

That period away from ballet — one of the few truly sustained respites from the working world since her tweener years — turned out to be an unexpected opportunity for personal growth. Tiler Peck, spinning in new directions with the Kennedy Center’s ‘Little Dancer’

The ballroom of Act II is like nothing else in ballet. New York Times Critics on What They Want to See 2013-12-31T23:10:26Z

In ballet, in the future, in America, in themselves. Boston Ballet – review 2013-07-06T23:06:50Z

The ballet company teams with local dance studios to find young talent to put onstage with the pros. ‘The Nutcracker’ wasn’t always a beloved ballet. Early critics liked only the music. 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Many children who started in the PNB School and performed in “Nutcracker” have gone on to professional ballet careers. PNB’s Stowell/Sendak ‘Nutcracker’ takes a final bow 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

There the choreographer Kenneth MacMillan chose her for a leading role in one of his first ballets, and the two collaborated for the next 20 years, challenging the perceived nature of ballet. Lynn Seymour, Acclaimed Ballerina and a Dramatic Force, Dies at 83 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

At each of the Boston performances, I noticed more of the ballet’s moments of struggle and self-contradiction. Dance Review: Boston Ballet Offers ?Ultimate Balanchine? 2010-05-10T22:08:00Z

Twenty-three other ballets, including the full-length “Jewels” and “Coppélia,” follow during this season; this quantity alone should be the envy of the dance world, but it is also of a quality unmatched anywhere. Dance Review: Balanchine Evening Ignites City Ballet Winter Season 2014-01-22T22:40:35Z

She took tap and ballet lessons, was a majorette in high school, and finally dove into dance with a passion at Ohio University. Dance Place’s Deborah Riley, moving on: ‘It’s been my family’ 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

I thought it was one of his best ballets. Baryshnikov in the Tragic Love Story ?In Paris? 2011-09-14T13:58:08Z

Whereas Bailey and her actors discussed how to unlock thought and feeling through Shakespeare's text, the ballet coaches were alert to a flotilla of minute adjustments. What really goes on in the rehearsal room? 2011-01-14T14:58:38Z

Why do the Swan Queen, Prince Siegfried and all the other ballet figures of the 1930s and 1940s move with anachronistically high extensions? Review: ‘Frame by Frame,’ a Ballet That Puts a Filmmaker Center Stage 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

The ballet, building brilliantly, is one of the great 19th-century children’s stories. 10 Ways to Tell if Your ‘Nutcracker’ Is Traditional 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

It’s depressing to read in the news release that this “is one of the most requested ballets” in the company repertory. Dance Review: Philadanco at the Joyce Theater 2012-10-05T23:25:20Z

After the final ballet, confetti rained on the stage. Review: With Balanchine and Confetti, City Ballet Is Back 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Expressions of Love That Bridge Real and Ethereal Worlds According to Romantic ballet, there are two worlds: the real and the supernatural. Dance Review: ‘Liebeslieder Walzer’ From New York City Ballet 2012-05-21T22:16:24Z

It's a startling reminder of the size of the stage where the ballet was premiered. Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z

The expansive kitchen windows on two sides let diners watch the ballet of cooks in motion. Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat, plus 1 to avoid 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

Yet this, the most famous and perennial ballet in international repertory, is seldom danced well — or well enough. Critic’s Notebook: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Swan Lake’ 2013-06-23T21:47:42Z

His structural inspiration may come from “The Sleeping Beauty,” but “Voices” looks very unlike the ordered classicism of that ballet. ‘How Am I Going to Dance to This?’ Ratmansky’s New Music Frontier 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Many story ballets falter when the libretto is overly complicated. Twyla Tharp Creates ?The Princess and the Goblin? Ballet 2012-02-03T15:40:07Z

“What we do is sculpted from the grinding and blending of a variety of disciplines like contemporary ballet, break-dance, martial arts, gymnastics, circus arts,” she said. Free Dance in Summertime New York 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

“I’m going to do a ballet at 100 — that’s my goal.” When Ski Ballet Pushed at the Porous Boundary Between Art and Sport 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Amy was delicate, blonde, and took horseback riding lessons and ballet class. "You want a rich lady mouth": Could fixing my teeth fix my life? 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

In August, the creative team spent a week at the Chautauqua Institution in New York working and reworking every aspect of the ballet. What if Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Told Their Love Story? What if It Were a Ballet? 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

At first, Tanowitz responds to the music’s lithe, contained activity with conventional ballet steps, legs unfolding to the front or side, and neat, clean pirouettes. In a Ballet Across America world premiere, even the piano dances 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z

In working with the ballet dancers, he said, he has tried to “break them out of being stiff, help them be themselves and be free.” Street Dancers Tackle a Ballet Project and the Armory Stage 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

"Like the 'Rite of Spring' by Stravinsky and a lot of other great compositions primarily scored for ballet." Czech-U.S. Internet connection: Zbynek Mateju-Raiford Rogers' 'Still Life' 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z

Another sticking point was the use of ballet students rather than professional dancers to perform. ArtsBeat: Joffrey Season Threatened 2011-07-04T19:12:08Z

Mr. Khan once designed for the ballet “Sleeping Beauty,” but ballet flats never made it into his collections. Scene City: Life Choreographs Art 2010-10-13T22:14:00Z

I was at ballet school for six years, and I was the only black girl. Black actors make it to the main stage – but there is still some way to go 2013-06-09T09:00:05Z

But in the choreography of sidewalk ballet, one party generally scoots to the side while the other carries on. Perspective | I walked ‘like a man’ for a week, and here’s what I realized. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

Who hasn’t wanted to dance as the Sugar Plum Fairy or the evil Mouse King in “The Nutcracker”? The magical Russian ballet is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. Holidays offer sights, sounds and hands-on fun 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

In February 2007 she started the Balanchine Preservation Initiative, an effort to bring back Balanchine’s forgotten ballets. Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Joyce Theater 2011-10-13T22:17:26Z

“I wake up in the morning thinking about ballet.” Street Dancers Tackle a Ballet Project and the Armory Stage 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z

At about the same time, competitive ballet skiing was heading for the Olympics — and still trying to figure out where it fell on the continuum between sport and art. When Ski Ballet Pushed at the Porous Boundary Between Art and Sport 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Balanchine didn’t invent the notion of a directing ballet master — the teacher who made ballets and controlled policy. History Is About to Change at New York City Ballet. How? 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

It’s just there, drawing focus in a ballet that supplies little else to focus on. Review: At New York City Ballet, a Too Quiet Debut 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

Ms. Kirkland, who shook up the ballet world with her 1986 autobiography, “Dancing on My Grave,” which detailed her rise to stardom and battle with drugs, was always a rebel. A Special ‘Nutcracker’ Bond 2013-12-10T22:13:32Z

The ballet is scheduled for four more highly anticipated performances this season on October 8, 11, 14, and 17. Karl Jensen Tells AD About His Set for the NYC Ballet 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

I got teased a lot for missing baseball practice and doing ballet instead.. A Minute With: New "Footloose" star Kenny Wormald 2011-10-12T09:11:31Z

If the Joyce’s current Pam Tanowitz Dance program had been shown last July as part of that theater’s season of six small troupes performing experimental ballet, it would have fit right in. Dance Review: Pam Tanowitz Brings a Certain Eccentricity to Dance at Joyce 2014-02-05T22:27:31Z

For most of its 550 pages, this social history of ballet is elegantly written and richly researched. Live and kicking: ballet's not dead yet 2010-12-07T16:12:00Z

But it is her turn as the ambitious but psychologically fragile ballet dancer in "Swan," a role she developed with Aronofsky for years, that has wowed studios and filmmakers scrambling to cast her. Natalie Portman offered lead in 3D survival story 2010-09-07T23:31:00Z

The company was founded in 1909 by the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev with dazzling dancers such as Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina, and took the ballet world by storm. Ballet Russes brought back to life on film 2011-01-31T17:10:40Z

The point of the comparison, though, is to show not who’s better but what ballet dancers, so often inclined to be aerial, can learn from using their weight. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Koch Theater 2012-03-19T22:18:43Z

Donna Glover, the ballet’s children coordinator, is the one who makes sure every kid gets into costume and onto the stage. ‘The Nutcracker’: Fairies and tulle onstage, total nuts backstage 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

Full-length ballets next season will include Mr. Martins’s “Romeo + Juliet” and Balanchine’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” ArtsBeat: City Ballet’s 2014-15 Season to Feature Ballets by Peck, Scarlett and Ratmansky 2014-05-07T14:31:27Z

A knee injury around this time derailed her ballet aspirations, but, from puberty onwards, Kruger had already secretly feared the worst. Diane Kruger: ‘I truly believe the best is yet to come’ 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

“Ballet used to be pretty cold and heartless and brutal, and people would leave their time in a classical ballet studio with some scars,” Stafford said. School of American Ballet Appoints New Leaders 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

He noted that she listed her undergraduate dance study and her work as children’s ballet teacher. Motor City exhibition ‘Dance’ shows how motion has long inspired American art 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

In this ballet the moments of brilliance rely on interpretation, and attack, musicality and drama vary from one performance to the next. Dance Review: ‘Swan Lake’ Returns to American Ballet Theater 2013-06-18T19:59:17Z

She has originated roles in 10 of his ballets, 7 at City Ballet. Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z

Of the 42 ballets at the Here/Now festival, 19, fairly enough, were by the three men: six from Mr. Wheeldon, five by Mr. Ratmansky and eight from Mr. Peck. Ballet After Balanchine: 3 Choreographers Lead the Way 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

The ballet has seen a corresponding spike in interest; since 2010, its ticket sales are up 75 percent and donor gifts have tripled. Patricia McBride, passing on Balanchine’s torch with joy at Charlotte Ballet

They strike attitudes of ballet swans in a forceful, clipped fashion. Review: Dada Masilo’s ‘Swan Lake’ Offers Ill-Fated Love With a Twist 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

“Kenneth MacMillan was the dark genius of British ballet — its destroyer, if you listen to some,” the critic Ismene Brown wrote in an article about the celebration in The Spectator magazine. Kenneth MacMillan’s School of Ballet Sex, Neurosis and Grit 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

When he decided to write a ballet, McCartney visited the Royal Opera House in London and saw "Giselle," meeting the dancers of the Royal Ballet afterward to discuss the work. Paul McCartney signs with Decca label, at last 2011-08-23T18:37:23Z

In the mix of ballet and ordinary gestures, we catch the suggestions of drama and human relationships, all heightened by Jennifer Tipton’s incomparable lighting. Dance Review: City Ballet in Varied Works at Koch Theater 2012-10-07T20:27:27Z

In ballet, as in Western society, the new man exhibits more vulnerability, while letting the woman share some of the partnering. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

In an interview a few days before the opening of “Sleeping Beauty,” he said he began to dance on point, secretly, as a teenager, after beginning ballet at 14. He Wants to Be a Ballerina. He Has Taken the First Steps. 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Their survival here might have gone unnoticed were it not for last winter’s acid attack on Sergei Filin, the ballet company’s artistic director. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z

He hasn’t been able to oversee rehearsals, as he’s working on a new ballet, called “Whipped Cream,” for American Ballet Theatre, where he is choreographer in residence. Poetry in motion: Mariinsky Ballet brings Russian fairy tale to the stage 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

On one screen Ms. Miller appears, coached by a white ballet instructor in a pristine studio as she practices classical barre exercises she learned as a child. Art Review: ‘Fore’ at Studio Museum in Harlem 2012-11-29T22:40:44Z

Nor is it the first ballet to imagine the eerie quietude of outer space. Taking Flight: Julie Kent at Washington Ballet 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Beyond political and economic reasons, for the steady stream of dancers who leave their homeland — many defect while others get permission to work abroad — ballet in Cuba is limiting, with a focus on war-horse-heavy repertory. Havana?s Sphere of Influence 2011-05-25T19:32:32Z

Not only is she Balanchine’s last ballerina; she is also one of the New York ballet world’s last stars. Dance: Darci Kistler, Retiring From New York City Ballet 2010-06-25T16:19:00Z

And along the way, there are far too many ballet clichés. Review: Joffrey Ballet’s New ‘Nutcracker’ Leaves Some Tradition Behind 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

In an interview with The New York Times, he said that the ballet “is definitely not me at the moment.” Review: How Deep Is Your Love? A Ratmansky Ballet Dives In 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

Cleopatra has inspired dozens of films either about her life or related to her legend, along with tens of operas and ballets. The question isn't why cast a Black Cleopatra but rather why not profile another African queen? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

I wanted nothing more than to be just like my white Canadian peers with their Wonder Bread sandwiches and after-school ballet classes. The Chinese home I never knew 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

“Barocco” has a signature step in which the women, feet together in ballet’s fifth position, bounce on point three times before stepping sideways. Bounding Across Space and Time, via DVD 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the ballet into which he was slotted was “Don Quixote,” a poor choice to begin Ballet Theater’s season and a less than ideal vehicle for Mr. Lendorf’s gifts. Alban Lendorf Performs in ‘Don Quixote’ 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

In 1914, the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky signed the insole of a cream-colored leather ballet slipper that he had barely worn. 6 Reasons to Visit the Antiquarian Book Fair 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

In all five ballets, the choreography again proved rich fare. Review: Five by Balanchine, Stark and Dramatic, at City Ballet 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

I look forward to sampling other ballets during this final week. Dance Review: Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky at New York City Ballet 2013-06-06T20:20:40Z

Henry James’s 1898 horror novella “The Turn of the Screw” has been adapted into many forms since it was published, including in opera, ballet and theater — some of them great works in their own right. ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ Brings Back the Ghosts of Henry James 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

No ballet of the 19th century goes further into true tragedy: Odette the Swan Queen takes heroic responsibility for herself and also her flock of swan-maidens. Critic?s Notebook: The Many Faces of ?Black Swan,? Deconstructed 2011-02-09T23:04:37Z

These are both, in various senses, Romantic ballets, so it’s worth remembering the audacious remark made by Balanchine when he returned to his native Russia in 1962, with New York City Ballet. Mariinsky Ballet Concludes Brooklyn Run With Chopin 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Yet while they're one way of solving the problem of narration, especially in a one-act ballet, they introduce an element of awkwardness. Royal Ballet mixed bill - review 2010-10-17T20:31:00Z

Both performers dance a great deal; Mr. Wheeldon has created a ballet to Gershwin’s “Second Rhapsody” at the end of Act I, as well as retaining the 16-minute “American in Paris” ballet toward the end. Christopher Wheeldon Directs ‘An American in Paris’ for Broadway 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Instead she convinces her boss that his wife will live on in his memory, a ghost looking over his shoulder as he finally leaves his hospital cell and returns to work on the ballet. Joffrey Ballet dazzles in L.A. Opera's 'Orpheus and Eurydice' 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Throughout his ballets, his references might not be direct, but his work is in conversation with modern times, for better and worse. At City Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky Can Let His Imagination Run Wild 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

It is the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan, childhood home of Rudolph Nureyev and now home to the ballet company that bears his name. Dance Listings for Feb. 7-13 2014-02-06T23:51:52Z

“I conceived it as a ballet with words,” Mr. Wright said in a recent telephone interview from Los Angeles. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Choreography for ‘Anna Karenina’ 2012-11-23T21:30:27Z

Last year he presented Premieres, a rather misjudged programme of short modern ballets for himself and fellow Royal Ballet dancer Zenaida Yanowsky. Carlos Acosta: Premieres Plus ? review 2011-07-29T17:29:43Z

One would be that girls with low self-esteem choose classical ballet because the struggle for perfection reinforces their poor self-image. Peter Lovatt: 'Dancing can change the way you think' 2011-07-30T23:05:56Z

“It’s a small victory for me, but a big one for ballet, especially in Germany, because it’s quite rare that a company like this acknowledges there was mistreatment,” she said. Staatsballett Berlin and Dancer Reach Settlement Over Bias Allegations 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

He has inserted vintage steps into recent ballets; there will be some in his Bernstein premiere. Alexei Ratmansky Has Russian Poetry and an American Pulse 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

In that work, created for the Paris Opera Ballet, the eponymous dancer tells of her life as an artist, sometimes illustrating her words by dancing excerpts from ballets. Dance Review: Snapshots of One Dancer?s Life Give a Glimpse Into an Art Form 2010-09-19T22:09:00Z

He also said he planned to partner with youth from ballet, theater and other arts organizations in the area to enrich the experience for children. A crowded free day of music at Seattle Symphony 2011-09-19T18:14:21Z

Has story ballet depreciated in value so much that we are simply watching new versions of old shows? Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

In a curtain speech, the artistic director, Kevin McKenzie, spoke of how the works pointed to the future of not only the company but also of ballet. American Ballet Theater Opens its Fall Season 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

That Körbes purity — not least those arms — shone through the ballet, adding yet more layers of meaning to its many shades of emotion. Carla Körbes Grandly Bows Out of Pacific Northwest Ballet 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

In a larger sense Ms. Michelson’s movement vocabulary, which drives dancers through repetitive, fiendish phrases, incorporates centuries-old traditions, including ballet and yoga, and newer ones, chiefly the technique developed by Merce Cunningham. ?Devotion,? a Moment to Remember in Dance 2011-12-17T05:26:08Z

Moscow’s State Opera and Ballet traveled in November to the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, to perform its take on the ballet. What's On This Week Around the World 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Portman, who turned 30 last Thursday, announced in December that she was pregnant and planned to marry her boyfriend, French ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied. Natalie Portman gives birth to baby boy: report 2011-06-15T00:57:32Z

Smirnova is better at ballet, and one day soon she may be the best. T Magazine: Olga Smirnova on Her Toes 2012-10-15T20:40:19Z

He paces the length of the room, his hand sliding along the ballet barre and eyes peeled to the floor. At 85, choreographer Rudy Perez is still inspired by the rhythms of everyday life 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

“It’s a really good example of the kind of costume and the kind of ballets that were being shown at the time,” Ms. Fitzpatrick said. From the Music Hall to Ballet Royalty: A British Tale 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z

And yet the central subject is ballet classicism, or rather simply dancing, and, less simply, the way that classical ballet can absorb other idioms. Dance Review: Revivals Eclipse the New for City Ballet 2010-06-01T21:08:00Z

More ballets followed, and then the ultimate triumph as Ms. Saleh toured the Soviet Union. A Ballerina’s Story, Once Upon a Time in Egypt 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

In Black Swan her jagged turn as a ballet dancer forced to confront the death of her career as a new star rises ensured that our nostalgia for what might have been reaches uncomfortable heights. Winona Ryder: from teen rebel to screen mum 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

When I announced I was commissioning Akram to do “Giselle,” I got a lot of criticism from the ballet world; that I would ruin the dancers’s technique, that I wasn’t interested in classical dance. ‘Giselle’: Remaking (and Updating) a Classic and Finding a Hit 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

The program was washed down by Jorge Amarante’s “Sur,” one of the most lethargic tango ballets to grace a stage: It had no sensuality, no heat. Review: Diane Coburn Bruning and Ashley Bouder Stretch the Rules of Classicism at the Joyce 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

Other performances feature ballet, tap and Spanish and South African dance. The Downtown Dance Festival Provides a Broad Vista 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Walking was a trial by fire at emerging French designer Julien Fournie's show, too, where bowling shoes had been fitted with weighted cork platforms that forced the models to walk on pointe, like ballet dancers. Call the chauffeur: Paris designers ban walking 2011-07-06T00:58:11Z

Performing in circus venues was part of life for all ballet dancers touring across the globe. Review: ‘Bolshoi Confidential’ Peers Down the Centuries and Past the Pirouettes 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

Conrad orders Ali to steal her back — and spends the remainder of the ballet trying to hold onto her. Dance Review: ‘Le Corsaire’: American Ballet Theater With Natalia Osipova 2012-07-06T21:22:16Z

There were tickets at the theatre for the ballet Gaîté Parisienne, which we enjoyed with an enthusiastic audience, then lobster for dinner at a reasonable price. Best overseas breaks at Christmas and new year: readers’ travel tips 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

We are both ballet dancers and Lily-Mae loves dancing, when she grows up she wants to be a ballet dancer as well. Charity single storms Irish chart 2012-12-08T13:24:31Z

Balam Dance Theater, performing three works, definitely overstayed its welcome: here Balinese dance met modern dance, ballet and karate to create a wince-inducing fusion. Dance Review: Hip-Hop, Folk and Karate Through a Strainer on a Hot Afternoon 2011-08-14T23:27:10Z

Mr. Garavani received no fee for his designs, a spokesman for the ballet company said. Going Hollywood: In New York, the Ballet and Opera Are Stuffy No More 2012-09-28T23:37:02Z

Although most of the world’s biggest opera companies, including the Royal Opera, in London; the Paris Opera; and La Scala, in Milan, have resident ballet troupes, those ensembles operate differently from the Met. Metropolitan Opera Disbands Its Ballet Corps 2013-05-20T21:43:54Z

My understanding was that the Met’s intention was to maintain a corps de ballet, and we’re about to begin negotiating the terms of how it will be structured.” Metropolitan Opera Disbands Its Ballet Corps 2013-05-20T21:43:54Z

Van Dalen keeps a livestream of his pigeons, and when he lets them fly—usually around five o’clock in the afternoon—they circle above in a feathery ballet. A Scholar of Pigeons 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

With any luck, those dancers will offer some insight into what the ballet world is actually like — and keep Flesh and Bone from descending into cliche. Starz’ New Ballet Drama Flesh and Bone Sounds Exactly Like Black Swan 2014-01-28T22:34:16Z

“I’m ecstatic,” Mr. Peck, 26, said in a telephone interview from Saratoga Springs, N.Y, where City Ballet was preparing for a week of performances, including his most recent ballet, “Everywhere We Go.” New York City Ballet Names Justin Peck as Choreographer 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

“The last time you ever saw a dream ballet in a musical was in the ’50s, right?” quips Ginger Thatcher, the associate choreographer. In ‘Little Dancer,’ Susan Stroman shows the art of perseverance

But it mostly shows Mr. Millepied yet again as a kind of magpie whose ballets feel like accomplished stylistic exercises rather than emanations of his own sensibility. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z

Ms. Mearns made the heroine of “Serenade” a creature of burning impulse; Ms. Reichlen rendered the heroine of “Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2” both impersonal and multifaceted, her large-scale lyricism making the ballet marvelously ample. Dance Review: New York City Ballet at Koch Theater 2013-01-18T23:37:16Z

“I mean, right now, I could probably dance all of ‘Agon,’” he said about Balanchine’s famously pared-down, modernist ballet, “that’s how obsessed I was.” At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts and Dancers Find a Common Language 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

When Madame Mao controlled the company she prohibited foreign ballet terms: the attitude became "the stance of the heron", the arabesque became "spreading your wings in the welcome breeze". Step-by-step guide to dance: National Ballet of China 2011-08-11T16:28:27Z

It’s important for the ballet world to get it. Misty Copeland on Pushing Ballet’s Boundaries 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

For decades, he watched the leading singers and dancers under the new electric lights, and scrutinized the young members of the corps de ballet in the wings and backstage. Degas: A Superfan at the Opera, Where Art Tips Into Obsession 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

I only read the ballet’s synopsis after the performance, and found I had been totally wrong in my deduction of the narrative depicted by the action onstage. Vuyani Dance Theater and Trisha Brown at Fall for Dance 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

The problems were most apparent during performances of two Stravinsky ballet scores, “The Rite of Spring” on Thursday and “Petrouchka” on Friday. Review: Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra’s Evolution Raises Issues of Mission 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

“I think for Wendy, ballet vocabulary is a convenient scaffolding to slither through, to find movement within it that’s very much her own.” Wendy Whelan Embraces Contemporary Dance 2013-08-02T18:58:39Z

Petals for pirouettes … European ballet dancers accept flowers in the 1930s. How ballet fell for flower-giving 2012-12-18T20:00:01Z

It was Mr. Wheeldon who had suggested “Rhapsody in Blue,” he said when asked if City Ballet had thought this could be a way to attract audiences who might not otherwise attend the ballet. Robert Fairchild Crosses Back to Ballet, Gershwin in Tow 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

It was the first broadcast of its kind; while some opera and ballet performances live-stream in movie theaters, this event was for home viewers, online through Apple TV and Roku. Broadway Comes to a Laptop Near You 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

Like some of his other dances, this ballet lacks a viewpoint — the philosophy from which it springs. Review | New York City Ballet: After the fall 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

But the work of maintaining existing ballets never ends. Hard Work of Keeping City Ballet?s Costumes Fresh 2010-06-14T22:59:00Z

The tyrannical villain in the ballet, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Kissinger, is portrayed in this scene by the singer performing Kissinger, and the stentorian bass-baritone Richard Paul Fink threw himself into the assignment. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z

It is the second installation in City Ballet’s Art Series, designed to draw newcomers to the ballet. A Giant Photo Connects Fans to Ballet Stars 2014-01-27T03:25:00Z

Scenery, costumes, music, choreography, dancers: American Ballet Theater’s eight-week season at the Metropolitan Opera House is this country’s peak annual demonstration of ballet as a composite art. Savoring the Spectrum of American Ballet Theater’s Rich Season 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

But whereas its five new ballets of fall 2015 were all fresh affairs that gave hope for the future of ballet, the two on Wednesday were slickly unoriginal. New York City Ballet Opens a Spring Gala, and Some Umbrellas 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Morris, who comes from the modern dance world, knows a thing or two about getting dancers on and off the floor, a skill that doesn’t always translate to ballet choreographers, though they keep trying. Review: Mark Morris Fits Houston Ballet to a ‘V’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

The dance, choreographed by Javier de Frutos, also stretches the concept of ballet into new terrain – pop video, cabaret and film installation as well as contemporary dance theatre. The Pet Shop Boys/The Most Incredible Thing - review 2011-03-23T01:29:56Z

If Balanchine’s ballets seem fast, that is probably due to positioning as well as to actual tempo. Balanchine Teaching 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Music is everything to Mr. Garland, who is the resident choreographer at Dance Theater and director of its school, where his specialty is ballet. The Ballet World Needs Robert Garland. Why Isn’t It Calling? 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

One of the Mariinsky’s ballet masters is exclusively tasked with overseeing this production, which was first unveiled in 1987 by the Joffrey Ballet. ‘Rite of Spring’: Ode to the human savage, still untamed 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

We watched a daffy video that featured a man dressed as a captain fishing for seafood in the supermarket and a woman searching for swans at the ballet. On a Baltic Sea cruise, board in Sweden and wake up in Latvia — then do it in reverse 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

What this demonstrates is that Balanchine changed the look of women in ballet beyond most people’s imaginings. U.S. Ballerinas Redefine an Art, but What About History? 2013-07-05T17:15:59Z

“Choreographing has been a totally new experience for me,’’ JR, who had never seen a ballet before going to work with the company, said in a statement. ArtsBeat: French Street Artist Taking His Work Onstage at City Ballet 2014-02-26T18:04:16Z

But he did ask her to create two ballets in 1960 as part of “Panamerica,” a City Ballet program that featured Latin American composers. Gloria Contreras, Choreographer Mentored by Balanchine, Dies at 81 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

“We came up with the structural pattern that starts the ballet!” Justin Peck and Collaborators Combine Gravitational Universes 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z

First, there’s no ballet, though there is a rudimentary waltz on ice skates. | 'The Nutcracker in 3D': A Dystopian Aftertaste to Those Sugarplums 2010-11-24T00:07:00Z

Are you more attracted to classical ballets than to contemporary ones? From a ‘Super Bunhead’ to a Lead Dancer 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

With “Giselle,” the second offering of its two-week New York season, the company shows us a particularly Parisian way with a ballet that is internationally familiar onstage. Dance Review: Paris Ballet Opera’s ‘Giselle’ at Lincoln Center 2012-07-15T21:45:22Z

Even if it’s dated, even if it has its share of stereotypes, the ballet is rooted in the actual. Dance Review: City Ballet in ?West Side Story Suite? at Koch Theater - Review 2011-10-02T22:22:45Z

Their work for City Ballet — though they also create elsewhere — has now made it the world’s main source of important ballet choreography. Ballet After Balanchine: 3 Choreographers Lead the Way 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

There is the camaraderie of folk dancing; the light, litheness of ballet; and the grounded shapes of modern dance. Review: The Sophisticated Simplicity of a Mark Morris Masterpiece 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

The Durant sisters are outwardly fortified by the rigid routines and conventions of ballet, but inwardly they are bending under the pressure of maintaining a facade. Megan Abbott’s Latest Crime Thriller Links Ballet and Sex 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

Marquee TV With its array of dance, theater and opera on demand, this is the digital place to be for fans of classical and contemporary ballet. 12 Places to Watch Dance Online 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Watching her dance in his ballets, I think, ‘This is what he wants.’ Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z

Margot Fonteyn, who to me was the epitome of the elegance of ballet dancing, was there, and she brought a lot of incredible dancers to Panama. Gabriel García Márquez in the Eyes of Those Who Knew Him 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Scarlett, once heralded as a “choreographic wonder boy of British ballet” by The New York Times, has created works for dance companies worldwide, including the American Ballet Theater. Royal Ballet and Liam Scarlett Part Ways After an Investigation 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

After alighting in New York at the Museum of Modern Art in 2019, they now respond to the ballet’s third act in a black-walled gallery, with the museum’s guards moving them in performances. Haegue Yang’s Radical Art of Obscure Delights 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Yes, the world is falling apart — and don’t think that she doesn’t want to wake up from this bad dream — but ballet to her is not frivolous, and it shouldn’t be to us, either. Dancers Still Need Daily Class. No Barre? Just Grab a Chair. 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

"We were trying to deliver the level of work you'd expect from a long-established ballet company," he says, "but with a fraction of the staff." Christopher Wheeldon: the golden boy grows up 2010-05-04T20:30:00Z

Ms. Dvorovenko, born in 1973, grew up in Ukraine with dancer parents and studied gymnastics before entering ballet school at 10. I Don’t Miss ‘Swan Lake’: A Ballerina’s Role on ‘The Americans’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

She began studying ballet and tap at 6 and soon, inspired by Walt Disney, decided that she wanted to be a professional whistler. Patrice Munsel, Soprano Who as a Teenager Won a Met Contract, Dies at 91 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

It also felt deep enough for the exploration of an entirely different ballet, one that didn’t snub or get in the way of the Agnes de Mille original. It Was Justin Peck’s First ‘Rodeo,’ and He Turned It on Its Head 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

The company was still working to recover from a series of scandals, including accusations of abuse against a former ballet master in chief and an outcry over vulgar texts sent by male dancers. New York City Ballet Was in Peril. Then Came a Revival. 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z

As a novice choreographer, he was offered only $10 per performance, with no mention of the ballet being staged beyond one year. Ballet Theater Donating Trove of Materials to Library of Congress 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Yet Petipa was one of history’s great survivors; he outlived all the Western ballet masters of his youth and middle age. The Ambiguous Sexism of Marius Petipa, Ballet’s Towering Master 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

The showy articulateness of ballet would seem to be the perfect embodiment of Scott’s style, but here it is merely gestured at. Review: Dance Theater of Harlem Returns to Sparkling Form 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

He borrowed techniques and ideas about training and strategy from ballet and chess, other great Soviet obsessions, making his players perform somersaults and pirouettes in skates and heavy pads. ‘Red Army,’ the Rise and Fall of a Soviet Hockey Dynasty 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

SUN All-ages gala with food, dance classes, silent auction, meet Pacific Northwest Ballet company dancers, proceeds benefit the ballet school, 3 p.m. Community calendar 2012-01-25T23:08:10Z

This quasi-Pina Bausch routine works only when the process and ideas are rigorous, and the affected staginess is perpetuated throughout the ballet. In ‘Dutch Doubles,’ 4 Choreographers, Inspired by 4 Artists 2014-04-21T12:35:07Z

She is firm about something else, too: She didn’t trade her freedom for ballet. Virginia Johnson Steps Down From Dance Theater of Harlem. For Keeps. 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

It was Tharp's first work for the company, and is considered one of the first "crossover" ballets. New documentary notes Joffrey Ballet's Seattle origins 2012-05-30T22:52:04Z

Mr. Gauthier’s “Ballet 101” made for an invitingly self-deprecating start, proposing that ballet rests on not five but 101 basic positions. Review: Gauthier Dance Reimagines Ballet in 101 Positions 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

On this commonality rests the hopes of the National Ballet of China’s 2008 production of “Peony Pavilion,” which itself seeks to fulfill a dream: to create a Western ballet with Chinese characteristics. Review: National Ballet of China Brings ‘Peony Pavilion’ to Lincoln Center 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The ballet is most remarkable in places where I would have least predicted. Dance Review: ?Tom Sawyer? by Kansas City Ballet - Review 2011-10-24T22:02:52Z

As she helped the dancers, it became instantly clear that the most paramount — and fragile — part of a Balanchine ballet is its musicality. At City Ballet, Learning From Dancers Who Learned From Balanchine 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Julie Kent, artistic director of the Washington Ballet, uses similar words to describe Farley, who she says maintains a “deep hunger for knowledge” about ballet’s past while creating works that feel “completely fresh and modern.” Washington Ballet concludes its virtual season with a breath of fresh air, captured on film 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

They’ve been groomed since childhood to dance the style and ballets of George Balanchine; but Robbins requires valuably alternative standards. Jerome Robbins, the Experimentalist 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Pictures, costumes and designs make us speculate on the idioms of lost ballets. Art Review: ‘Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes,’ at National Gallery 2013-05-23T20:40:40Z

She made York take ballet and tap dancing and taught him to talk “of cabbages and kings.” Few minorities visit Sequoia National Forest or the Sawtooth Wilderness. This man wants to change that. 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

This June brings perhaps the most luxurious of all ballet comparisons to New York. Dance Review: City Ballet in Balanchine’s ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ 2012-06-06T21:59:12Z

He can be a classicist, a ballet historian, a lyrical pure-dance modernist, a comic cartoonist, a riveting children’s storyteller or an adult commentator on gender and society. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Dance Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

They are both so gorgeously free, but Fairchild makes my jaw drop at how casually she sails through the rigors of classical ballet. The Brilliance and the Blahs of City Ballet. (And Then There’s Solange.) 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

It is a direct, manly piece.… The whole number is as sound as a superb vaudeville turn; in ballet terminology it is perfect American character ballet. Two Musicals 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

Odette, the ballet’s heroine, is a woman who has been turned into a swan by an evil magician. In Miami, Climbing Ballet’s Everest: ‘Swan Lake’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

A ballet troupe is a small army of fine lines and grace. How a new dance gets made: Behind the scenes at American Contemporary Ballet 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

A pervasive trend, ballet flats, were offered in enough colors to fill a Crayola box. Scavenger: For Designer Bargains, Step Into Their Closet 2010-04-07T21:37:00Z

The 45-year-old Russian choreographer, who has created numerous story and non-narrative ballets, tends to mesh the dancing, acting and frenzied swordplay, depicted against Verona's blood-red edifices. Alexei Ratmansky wants to reignite Romeo and Juliet's spark 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

And the playing of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, though it is often coping with unfamiliar fare, surpasses that of any New York ballet institution. Dance Review: Ballet Across America at Kennedy Center 2013-06-09T21:01:30Z

In modern dance, composition is part of the training, but in ballet there is a lack of structured choreographic training. Dance Luminaries Weigh in on the Conspicuous Absence of Female Choreographers 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

As a choreographer, one of the great challenges is that ballet, in addition to being a musical art form, is a sculptural one. Halloween horror translated for ballet: How 'Inferno' will turn Dante into dance 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Ash is the princess of the group, the sensible one who tries to keep them all on track, and Spike is the wackiest – she's deaf and a ballet dancer. Writing with your dad…writing with your daughter 2013-06-26T11:49:20Z

Giselle" program, calls the young woman at the ballet's center "the very embodiment of the contrast between the real and unreal worlds ... PNB turns old documents into a new 'Giselle' 2011-05-25T21:51:07Z

Among current dancers in the ballet, several defended Mr. Martins. Peter Martins Retires From New York City Ballet After Misconduct Allegations 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

Zhurbin, 37, was born in Russia and came to the United States as a teenager, beginning his ballet training at LaGuardia High School at 15. Ballet Theater Promotes Several Dancers, Including 3 to Principal 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

Opening this weekend is “Art of the Fugue,” a ballet at the Royal Opera House for which she created the backdrops and costume designs. | Tauba Auerbach on Book Fairs, Knitwear and the Grateful Dead 2014-02-07T23:13:47Z

But the most remarkable sight of the night was Ms. Mearns, an intrepid dancer who has become known for exploring outside the ballet box with deliberate and vivid results. New York City Ballet Is Back, and the Real Jewels Are the Dancers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

“You haven’t seen them for a week,” his ballet master reminded him. Jean-Christophe Maillot Brings ‘Lac’ to City Center 2014-03-13T22:17:53Z

The opening shot, a street ballet of neurotic indecision that’s done in a single shot of intricately panning, tilting, swooping, and gliding audacity, sets the tone for the action that follows. “Only God Sees Me”: Revisiting a Brilliant French Comedy Released Twenty Years Ago 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

Since Lauren Lovette, who graduated from the company’s School of American Ballet in 2009, has made a strong impression in ballets by everyone else, why does she get no Balanchine solo? Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Is Changing, but Questions Remain 2012-06-15T21:27:12Z

Adhering to ballet convention almost seemed to be the goal. What’s Chinese About Chinese Ballet? 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

How could a conventional contemporary ballet like “DVG” stand a chance on the same program as that? New York City Ballet Is Back, and the Real Jewels Are the Dancers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The ballet in the penultimate scene does nothing to advance the opera’s plot or themes, particularly not with Benjamin Millepied’s bland new choreography. Opera Review: ?Khovanshchina? at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-02-28T16:32:53Z

Even when she sent out tulle skirts and leotards in skin tones, with ruby-red ballet flats, there was no hint of a gauzy femininity. Fashion Review: The Stage Is Big, and Lagerfeld Fills It 2010-10-05T22:56:00Z

Splashy potboilers — the most popular numbers from Khachaturian's ballet "Spartacus" and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony — opened and closed the concert. An eloquent remembrance by Armenian National Philharmonic 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z

The other two ballets, though just as brief, possessed more point of view. Ballet Finds Itself on Higher Ground, Overlooking Lincoln Center 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

In London classical ballet was still very fenced in. 2010-01-08T20:23:00Z

One wonders: Did he also laugh at the serious ballet student and chief of staff Rahm Emanuel when they served in the Clinton White House together? Perspective | Lara Spencer apologizes for ridiculing Prince George and ballet, but the damage has been done 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

In 2000, Mr. Martins hired her, at 17, to dance in the company’s corps de ballet after six weeks as an apprentice — an unusually quick promotion. A Dancer’s Farewell, Not as Choreographed 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

Although the ballets became a craze, “The Rite of Spring” in 1913 was scorned by critics as the “apotheosis of ugliness.” Ballets Russes: Emotional and Passionate 2010-10-11T11:20:00Z

Though she wrote opera librettos and made operas, concerts, and ballets a fixture of her cultural life, Catherine described herself as tone deaf. 10 things you may not know about Catherine the Great 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Ballet companies have a very large task here; they must navigate mandates and protocols to keep performers, crew, staff and audiences safe during what is arguably the most difficult ballet in the canon to manage. Perspective | Don’t share the lipstick! How ballet companies are planning covid-free ‘Nutcrackers.’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Hopefully, the ballet, set to Mozart’s Rondo in A Minor, is here to stay, just as, hopefully, Nichols will be back again. It’s a Season of Vintage Gems, and Female Bonding, at City Ballet 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

And the way the work grew during the year, incorporating gender swaps in its casting, proved it a ballet for our times. The Best Dance of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Both of them, like “Corsaire,” help ballet to seem the most frivolous of the arts; and it’s their dance scenes that trivialize them. On the Frivolities of Ballet, the Contradictory Art 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gaultier channeled the ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev and a cosmopolitan band led by Rudolf Nureyev for his first menswear on a couture runway. Special Report: Fashion: Plumes of Glorious Restraint 2011-07-06T17:21:47Z

It will be quite a transformation for an organization that began life as a ballet school, founded by Pamela Booth Bjerknes, a former American Ballet Theater dancer, and Michael Bjerknes, a former Joffrey ballet principal. American Dance Institute Changes Focus 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

“It’s so important for me to give back to the community, as well as to show people that ballet should be and can be inclusive,” she said in an interview. Misty Copeland Creates Program to Bring More Diversity to Ballet 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

It forms a surreal stage set for a kind of domestic aerial ballet, the dramas of family life played out across the facade. Dalston House: the building that lets you defy gravity 2013-06-26T06:00:04Z

The fare includes – among much more – world premieres and vintage ballets at New York City Ballet, Fall for Dance anthologies of multiple dance styles and a four-night Queer Tango season. Dance This Week: Balanchine Classics, Percussive Feet and Tango 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Two other weeks consist of full-length mid-20th-century ballets by the British master Ashton. Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Sylvia’ Is a Rich Harmony 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

“We used the trellis fabric from the draperies to create ballet slipper-like cushion ties that stretch down each chair leg in the breakfast nook,” says Meg. Stylish & Family-Friendly Decorating 2010-09-16T18:31:00Z

It feels disconnected from the first sections, but the ballet displays Ms. Pickett’s skill, ambition and individuality. Dance Review: Building on the Mastery of What Came Before 2011-05-02T22:07:56Z

Together, they wanted to prove to the world something that still needed proving back then: that blacks could indeed dance ballet — and marvelously. Dance Theater of Harlem: Arthur Mitchell’s Dream at 50 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

The ballet is an imaginative re-creation of a Poet’s interior life: Ashton presents a series of fantastic, surreal visions and two rival muses, Sacred Love and Profane Love. Dance Review: Frederick Ashton Festival in Sarasota Honors a Legacy 2014-05-01T23:32:34Z

“Although, in my personal opinion, anything Kirill does in his work, whether it’s ballet, theater or any of his film, it’s about today. He speaks about today.” Empty chair at Cannes for detained Russian rock biopic director 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

But, for the most part, ballet companies around the world seem to be on board. Toning Down Asian Stereotypes to Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Fit the Times 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

A number of ballet patrons wore Valentino, sometimes with accompanying rubies and diamonds. Ballet meets Valentino at glittery NYCB gala 2012-09-21T20:13:12Z

It is less known for challenging that audience, as it does with a moody eight-minute antislavery pantomime that Copland cut when he turned the ballet into an orchestral suite. Music Review: American Hymns, Both Classic and Reimagined 2011-05-11T20:49:08Z

“I’ve learned a lot from ballet,” he was quoted as saying. Public Offerings — High-Tech, High-Worth Bachelors 2012-06-07T21:30:36Z

MacMillan’s is an all-or-nothing ballet, and where the dancing goes, the acting must follow. Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Brings a Precise Pairing to the Met 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Singer Josh Groban used his website to raise $80,000 for a mosaic mural at the school he serves, and dancer Misty Copeland took the students at her school to the ballet. Michelle Obama secures a post-White House future for her school arts program 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

The piece, Ocean's Kingdom, will receive its public outing on 22 September at the start of the ballet company's autumn season. Paul McCartney puts love, anger and sadness into score for New York ballet 2011-02-24T21:36:54Z

In London in 1845, four early ballet stars caused a sensation when they performed Jules Perrot’s “Pas de Quatre,” an elegant illustration of ballet technique and an embodiment of the Romantic style. 5 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Touchingly, attractively, the film showed children discovering both ballet and, by way of dance, themselves. At American Ballet Theater Gala, All Is the Same but Different 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Each ballet dies with the fall of the curtain. Critic?s Notebook: Is Ballet Dying? Sure, It?s Died Many Times 2011-01-05T00:02:49Z

The smoothly rounded arms and long lines of ballet are gone, replaced by a looseness and the directness of simply moving to music. A Triumphant De Keersmaeker Takes Paris Opera by Storm 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Ball joined the company as a member of the corps de ballet in 2012 before he was elevated to soloist in 2017. New York City Ballet Promotes Three Men to Principal Dancers 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

Heath’s confidence soared, she said, when Poole told her with a smile that age is no reason to avoid ballet. At 78, this ballerina is still going strong: ‘It’s never too late to do something you love’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

It’s seldom that ballet attracts a director of Mr. Lepage’s status; the great passages of this production are all his. Review: ‘Frame by Frame,’ a Ballet That Puts a Filmmaker Center Stage 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

Today’s ballet audience includes devotees no less fixated. Die-Hard Ballet Fans, Passionate and Partisan 2014-04-25T20:08:08Z

This impersonal approach, so alien to many notions of ballet artistry, is often a central part of the Balanchine experience. Sugarplum Fairies and Cavaliers Move Ahead at City Ballet 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

One is defined by the theme of the “Nutcracker,” with decorative images from the ballet and chocolate truffle flavors like rosemary-orange, Lebkuchen and plum pudding. A Truffle Imbued With Winter Whimsy 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

By using 15 men and one woman, it sets up situations that challenge ballet’s usual focus on femininity and heterosexual chivalry. It Was Justin Peck’s First ‘Rodeo,’ and He Turned It on Its Head 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

“Scrying” is about forms, George Balanchine’s style of classical ballet and, more abstractly, about a style of spiritual communication that involves looking into a mirror to connect with a spirit. 2010-01-11T08:09:00Z

"I was a little bit nervous and focused on the process of creating this ballet and fulfilling the commission," said Peck. 'Ballet 422' peeks behind curtain at birth of a Justin Peck ballet 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

With the first ballet, “Square Dance,” there was the thrill of seeing it in the theater where it had its premiere in 1957. Review: Pacific Northwest Ballet and Three by Balanchine 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

"I am told I was in a carry-cot at my sister's ballet classes when I was 18 months and I started dancing there," she told . Lee wins £10,000 choreography award 2013-11-29T11:15:48Z

It is a beautifully constructed ballet; it also is exquisitely musical and adorably costumed. Big hats, ballerinas and belly laughs: ‘The Concert’ puts comic spin on ballet

A ballet can be many things and have many meanings: personal, public, symbolic, unconscious. After a Choreographer’s Suicide, Ballet Confronts Tough Questions 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

“Fancy Free,” Bernstein’s first ballet — a collaboration with the great Jerome Robbins, who would choreograph “On the Town” and “West Side Story” — came just several months later and couldn’t be more different. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Mia Michaels’ choreography avoids traditional Broadway chorus lines, acrobatics and ballet pretensions for clever, tightly synchronized, character-driven group movement, and it is winning. 'Finding Neverland' and 'The Visit': Two Musicals to Savor 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

Ever since, it has had the most distinguished musical repertory of any of the world’s ballet companies. Setting the Tempo With One Eye on the Stage 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

The dispersal of the dancers does away with a longstanding tradition, although the Met was able to provide few details of the ballet troupe’s early history. Metropolitan Opera Disbands Its Ballet Corps 2013-05-20T21:43:54Z

The theme, “The Joy of Dancing,” reflects the fact that both princesses were patrons of British ballet companies. Unleashing Secrets at Kensington Palace 2010-05-04T10:00:00Z

Tuesday provided 21st-century choreography, with three world premieres; Wednesday presented ballets by the founding choreographer George Balanchine to music by Tchaikovsky; and Thursday honored the company’s unmatched tradition of Balanchine choreography to music by Stravinsky. New York City Ballet Dances Stravinsky, by Balanchine 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

Met Opera Dismantles Its Ballet in Buyouts The Metropolitan Opera has decided to disband its resident ballet company, whose roots date back to the opera’s founding in 1883. Metropolitan Opera Disbands Its Ballet Corps 2013-05-20T21:43:54Z

And we’re reminded that no ballet better showcases the way in which a company operates and the style for which it aims. Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Spurs American Ballet Theater to Work on the Details 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Peck has never made a story ballet before this. New York City Ballet injects incredible zing into new Peck ballet and other works 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

“I was soon programming the ballet seasons and overseeing their marketing from my office, first at Alfred Knopf, then at The New Yorker,” he would later write of his time on the board. Robert Gottlieb Didn’t Just Shape Manuscripts. He Shaped Dance, Too. 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

Sonja Lapatanov, a ballet teacher and former prima ballerina at the National Ballet, said the government, which faces a general election on June 21, was putting mainstream entertainment ahead of theater, opera and dance. Performers fume as Serbia reopens but theaters remain shut 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

In 2010, she joined the company, where her poetic, dramatic sensibility was quickly revealed in ballets by Jerome Robbins — she plays Maria in “West Side Story Suite” — and Christopher Wheeldon. | Lauren Lovette: Lauren Lovette Dances in New York City Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ 2013-12-20T20:36:09Z

In one section, two dancers turn and leap like ballet bacchantes. RoseAnne Spradlin’s ‘g-h-o-s-t c-r-o-w-n (working title)’ 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Here she uses a traditional style of Romantic-era ballet dress, which also refers to the Dior silhouettes of the late-’40s. Couture Creations for Dancing Bodies 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z

In a program note, Mr. Pastor takes pains to specify that he is not telling a story, as if semi-abstraction were not the default mode of contemporary ballet. Review: Polish National Ballet Shows Its European Side at the Joyce Theater 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

The Royal Ballet remains the most influential company between Russia and New York; its policies affect the course of ballet worldwide. Royal Ballet Seeks Next Link 2011-04-24T00:48:54Z

But the decor and special effects never outshine the cheerful dance energy of this ballet, and that is a testament to Possokhov’s exceptionally fluid and musical choreography. Atlanta Ballet’s high-tech ‘Nutcracker’ at Kennedy Center is one of the most entertaining out there 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

This summer, Isabella Boylston, the American Ballet Theater principal, will realize a dream, to bring ballet to her hometown, Sun Valley, Idaho. A Ballerina’s Gift to Her Hometown: A Summer Ballet Festival 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

“We are hopeful that the new mandate will help to further mitigate the spread of Covid-19 and enable even more people to safely enjoy our performances,” said Rob Daniels, a spokesperson for the ballet. Arts Groups Bet Big on Holiday Programming. Will Children Come? 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

But if we do allow beauty, if we don’t kill movies and concerts and ballets and books we still have a chance.” Liv Ullmann on Miss Julie, Donald Trump and why she hates the modern age 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

David Nixon surfs the current 1920s trend with a ballet version of F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel. This week's new dance 2013-03-02T06:00:20Z

There are hints of braille and intricate computer networks; a vulnerable signalling in the dark; information transformed into a silent but stunning baroque ballet. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z

Another ad for the season might say “1 Genius Choreographer, 19 ballets.” Dance Review: At Lincoln Center, the Eternal Radical, Balanchine 2010-05-03T22:08:00Z

For decades, Americans tended to allow “Beauty” to be the fief of visiting European ballet companies. ‘The Sleeping Beauty’: Royalist Ballet or Harmonious Ideal? 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

Wheeldon, a star at New York's City Ballet, previously created a ballet set to the music of the film for the company. An American in Paris heads to stage 2013-10-18T10:32:26Z

Yet the ballet doesn’t sing to us, move us, and for this absence of lyrical force you must look to the music. Critic?s Notebook: From Nancy Goldner, ?More Balanchine Variations? 2011-11-28T22:39:50Z

Many at PNB remember working side by side with Maurice while he discovered the world of ballet and we discovered the alchemy of magic and wonder. Maurice Sendak and Pacific Northwest Ballet 2012-05-08T18:49:18Z

It was hard to catch up with my peers in terms of ballet, but in hip-hop you have to pay attention to the little details. Twyla Tharp’s Troupe Prepares for a Milestone Tour 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

“In fact,” she said, “I hadn’t seen a single ballet choreographed by a woman.” Do Men Still Rule Ballet? Let Us Count the Ways. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z

In video calls, the two pairs of principal dancers talked about their memories of Robbins, and of creating the ballet. ‘Like He Was Going to Live Forever’: Making Jerome Robbins’s Last Ballet 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

Dance Project founder Benjamin Millepied talks about making ballet more diverse and relevant to new audiences. Essential Arts & Culture: Parsing Kusama, outcry over Philip Johnson update, art's woman problem 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

And in Stravinsky’s ballet “Firebird” — like the Scriabin, a dazzling Russian piece — supple strings and brilliant contributions from the principal woodwinds and French horn compensated for occasionally shaky work from the brasses. Music Review: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in Newark - Review 2012-01-09T22:57:25Z

Cruz studied ballet for nine years at Spain’s National Conservatory, then won a talent competition and landed her first TV role, which led to her film career. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Corbin wanted to study ballet because “it was the hardest” dance. ‘The Nutcracker’ wasn’t always a beloved ballet. Early critics liked only the music. 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Tuesday night, you can see these knotty concoctions back to back, between two Balanchine ballets. The Week Ahead: Jan. 30 ? Feb.5 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

More is being learned about the man, his career and his creations, so central to ballet repertory today. The Ambiguous Sexism of Marius Petipa, Ballet’s Towering Master 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

In the 1980s, she choreographed a ballet for garbage trucks. In Art This Fall, Women Win in a Landslide 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

To help meet costs, which push the ballet far beyond its budget, the company started an appeal for funds. These Dancers Escaped the War. Their Journeys Are Just Beginning. 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

They’re both highly stylized ballets, and nearly opposites — “Jardin” is constrained, conveyed through arrested motion and gestures, while “The Dream” spills out in full-bodied joy, lyricism and wit. Washington Ballet’s season finale: Space Age world premiere & earthy classics​ 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Let’s just say that portraying the Russian Revolution in ballet terms would probably be better left unattempted. Review: ‘Anastasia,’ a Grand Duchess or a Great Pretender? 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Then, in 2000, ballet superstar Mikhail Baryshnikov invited her to choreograph for his White Oak Dance project – and her interest in dance was rekindled. Step-by-step guide to dance: Yvonne Rainer 2010-12-24T13:12:31Z

The daily ballet training was demanding and reminds me of Mark Wahlberg's preparations for The Fighter. Natalie Portman's very good week 2011-01-25T11:32:49Z

But it seems isolated, provincial, stuck in its own groove, cut off from the larger currents of ballet today. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Presents Balanchine and Robbins 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

The truth is I’d never actually encountered a repertory program, except the kind at ballet and opera companies, until I got the bucket-list chance to visit Stratford for the first time. A First-Time Visitor Inhales Stratford’s Theatrical Perfume 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

I don’t want to become a ballet dancer because I want to do so many other things. ArtsBeat: 'Nutcracker' Season is Here: An Interview With American Ballet Theater's Little Mouse 2011-12-13T19:52:06Z

I couldn’t even bear hearing ballet music, it was that bad. You know it feels good to dance. These scientists reveal why. 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Abarca-Mitchell, 70, spent her childhood in joyless ballet classes but never saw an actual performance until she was 17 at the invitation of Mitchell, her new teacher. Five Pioneering Black Ballerinas: ‘We Have to Have a Voice’ 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. O’Brien was the original Leandre in “Harlequinade,” Balanchine’s 1965 ballet inspired by commedia dell’arte, a role he danced many times afterward. Shaun O?Brien, 86, New York City Ballet Dancer 2012-02-28T05:16:04Z

The ballet world is a durable fashion theme, and Jean Paul Gaultier took it for a spin this afternoon as the fall haute couture season closed. On the Runway: Gaultier: Let's Dance 2011-07-06T16:46:21Z

He worked with national ballet companies in Venezuela and Colombia, and taught in several places, including Sarah Lawrence College, the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance and the Juilliard School in New York. Danton, who taught ballet until late in life, dies at 102 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Now the ballet world is pondering the fate of the Martins ballets in the post-Martins era. A Peter Martins Ballet Loses Peter Martins, and a Slap 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Brutal Ballet are a classical ballet company with a twist. Metal ballet meets Games of Thrones 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Russians helped to establish the Colón’s first ballet company in 1925. Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires Aims to Reclaim Glory Days with a New Direction 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Instead, Ratmansky inserts a dream sequence with a full corps de ballet, in which Romeo and Juliet try to reach each other. Alexei Ratmansky wants to reignite Romeo and Juliet's spark 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

For many, the biggest draw will be Ms. Whelan, who retired from ballet last year, although she had already turned to modern dance. Dance This Week: An Eclectic ‘Hagoromo’ and Jérôme Bel’s ‘Ballet (New York)’ 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Early in ballet’s history, at the 17th-century court of Louis XIV, men predominated and sometimes performed female roles. A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

Instead, Eagling focuses on Clara, the girl caught up in Drosselmeyer's quest, so that the ballet becomes focused on her first adolescent experience of love. The Nutcracker ? review 2010-12-12T21:29:00Z

“His biggest wish,” Mr. Ma said to the audience, “is that jookin will become part of the dance world, the same as ballet.” ArtsBeat Blog: Lil' Buck Jooks His Way Through Beijing With Yo-Yo Ma and Meryl Streep 2011-11-18T22:06:52Z

A gifted artist, Vishneva seemed loath to draw any attention to her considerable athleticism, as though this would betray the ballet's spirit. ABT's 'Sleeping Beauty' at Segerstrom a lush return to tradition 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

“Tchaikovsky did amazing operas, amazing symphonies, amazing chamber music, amazing ballet,” he said. At Lincoln Center, Cultural Institutions Team Up 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

Vestiges of his ballet training surface in balances, low arabesques and full-revolution jumps. Dance Review: Chase Granoff at the Chocolate Factory - Review 2011-11-18T22:59:09Z

I would have voted for the dream ballet — all the way to the nightmare. What Is ‘West Side Story’ Without Jerome Robbins? Chatty. 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

By turns charming, shamelessly exuberant, romantic, enigmatic, bright and dark: a spectrum of views emerged during the course of four ballets, all of which were choreographed by George Balanchine between 1954 and 1970. Dance Review: New York City Ballet’s Spring Opener Features Balanchine 2013-05-01T22:03:21Z

Hurlin is the future of Ballet Theater, the kind of dancer who has a fresh take on story ballets, the company’s bread and butter, and even on arid ones. At Ballet Theater, Visions of the Natural World and ‘Swan’ Debuts 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

As Stafford and Whelan see it, a healthy body is a strong body, and the ballet body of today has muscles. What Is a Ballet Body? 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

People often assume there's only one form of dance: ballet. Why Will Gompertz was wrong about dance 2012-11-22T17:39:06Z

It is our first ever story ballet and we are really excited about it. Role model 2011-02-09T10:39:21Z

In the training there, he found a quality that he said he had been resisting while “trying to be a ‘male ballet dancer.’” A Ballet Hamlet Becomes a God (Apollo, That Is) 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Why are Swanilda and her friends dressed like Degas’s ballet danseuses? Dance Review: A Classic Comedy Upended: Changing Female to Male, and Old to Young 2011-03-29T22:06:43Z

The biggest pitfall for ballet training is “This is the way it is done.” dance: American Ballet Theater’s Director, Kevin McKenzie 2012-06-15T14:41:44Z

Morgenrock, from 2009, is especially poignant, with its ballet dancer and harpist who give an elegant, solitary performance beneath the shadows of looming trees. Artist of the week: Mathilde Rosier 2011-08-18T14:20:07Z

Athan I want to be strictly ballet for this period of time. The Soulful 11-Year-Old Princes of ‘The Nutcracker’ 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

Where the symphony was moody and dissonant, and clearly under the influence of Aaron Copland, the ballet score unabashedly embraced popular music and jazz. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

Most Balanchine ballets are high poetry; but the creation of poetic art is the very subject matter of “Apollo.” Balanchine’s ‘Apollo’: On Gods, Ballet and the Creation of Poetic Art 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

Debra Craine, the chief dance critic of The London Times, said Mr. Khan was a surprising choice because he had no history of making ballets. Coming to Chicago: A ‘Giselle’ That Speaks to the Present 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

“There’s a literal track, and there’s an abstract track. And in the ballet, the abstract track is more important.” Turning ‘a Nightmare of Ghoulish Obscenities’ Into a Ballet 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

She was also encouraged by her older brother, Dmitry Semionov, also now a principal at the Berlin company, who sent her ballet videos and told her to attend the theater. Emotions Expressed With a Glance 2011-06-30T22:13:36Z

And after acknowledging the cheers, and saluting the balconies, Yorke bowed to his audience with the grace and ease of a ballet prince. Perspective | Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke dances like no one’s watching — and it’s a beauty to behold 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Other highlights include Hepburn in her Broadway dressing room when she starred in Gigi, and family shots of Hepburn performing ballet as a young girl. Audrey Hepburn exhibition announced 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

And today, in their casting and subject matter, Ms. Lovette, 25, and Mr. Peck, 30, are also responding to the contemporary world and putting it on the ballet stage. When Two Men Fall in Love on the Ballet Stage, and Why It Matters 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Robbins made sketches of jumping and prancing seamen, drawing perhaps from the sexed-up paintings of Paul Cadmus, and plotted out scenes with Leonard Bernstein, author of the ballet’s syncopated score. Review: An Aching Ode to Jerome Robbins’s Lost New York 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

“And then it’s, like, ballet,” he said, with a laugh, “It’s just ballet at the end of the day. We all go home and eat dinner and go to sleep.” A Ballet Hamlet Becomes a God (Apollo, That Is) 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Doing ballet, jazz, tap since you were 6 is different than what I do.” Sam Rockwell, Screendom’s Slinkiest Rogue 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

But since Mr. Taylor is famous for wicked remarks, it’s also reasonable to assume he meant a dig at Balanchine, whose ballet “Donizetti Variations” treats the same music as if it were mint-fresh. Dance: How Shall We Know the Choreographer? By His Dances and More 2010-03-12T00:29:00Z

The new London City Ballet would have 12 dancers, and stick to chamber pieces rather than touring large-scale classical ballets, Marney said recently by phone. London City Ballet Is Revived, Nearly 30 Years After It Shut Down 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

And perhaps to this day, no ballet has ever gone further than “Monotones” in establishing parity between men and women. Frederick Ashton’s Masterly Pas de Trois 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

This season, Pite expands the Olivier Award-winning short work, which addresses the plight of refugees, into an evening-length ballet for the company. 54 Dance Programs, Festivals and More Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

In ballet when you lose a year, you lose a lot. Ballet Is Hard Enough. What Happens When You Lose a Year? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

The mysterious poetry of this all-female ballet to Debussy — conjuring essences of bygone eastern Mediterranean cultures — is another example of Robbins’s mastery of making music theatrical. City Ballet’s ‘Robbins 100’: Making Music Theatrical 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

She has been happily diverse, ranging from the full classicism of George Balanchine, Frederick Ashton and the 19th-century classics to the bold, slangy charm of several ballets by Twyla Tharp. Review: Paloma Herrera and Xiomara Reyes Give Farewell Performances of ‘Giselle’ 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

He settled in Switzerland and thereafter travelled widely, creating ballets and mounting old works for companies in Paris, Tokyo, Moscow and St Petersburg, South Africa, Italy and Beijing. Roland Petit obituary 2011-07-11T12:42:20Z

Exchanging Slippers For Schoolbooks AS Jacquelyn Reyes knows too well, ballet is about pushing the boundaries of a body that is in a continual state of aging. Exchanging Slippers For Schoolbooks 2010-12-03T15:27:00Z

It’s a simple idea but a powerful one to see represented in a ballet, which, in the frequently seen versions by Kenneth MacMillan, John Cranko or Rudolf Nureyev, is a lodestar for heterosexual passion. Love and Death in Paris, With an Assist From Star-Crossed Verona 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

The two other ballets on Tuesday’s program suffered by comparison with Balanchine. Dance Review: Three Twists on Classical Style, in Movement and in Character 2011-05-18T22:15:22Z

In the show, he juggles ballet, singing and acting for about two and a half hours, followed by an ice bath for healing. Robert Fairchild to Depart ‘An American in Paris’ 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

And maybe a chance for me to teach her a bit of meditation and yoga during the interval at the ballet. Blind date: 'We had an Indian smooch (I’m too shy to elaborate)' 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

Harth-Bedoya is hardly the same conductor he was when he first led a colorful performance of a suite from Prokofiev's ballet, "Cinderella," with the L.A. Miguel Harth Bedoya and L.A. Phil have special chemistry 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

And the ballet’s success gave me the trust of my board and supporters, and the energy and strength to continue on a path of risk. ‘Giselle’: Remaking (and Updating) a Classic and Finding a Hit 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

He always said his ballets were loved best in New York; Monday’s performance proved him still right. Dance Review: Ashton’s ‘Sylvia’ Is Revived at American Ballet Theater 2013-06-25T21:14:40Z

Sarah Hay, an American member of the Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, Germany, won the part of Claire, a talented, emotionally troubled dancer from Pittsburgh who ends up in a New York City ballet company. ArtsBeat: Dresden Ballet Dancer Wins Lead Role in New Starz Series 2014-01-27T05:09:38Z

He later wrote an oratorio and four cantatas, a mass, two ballets and works for jazz combo with orchestra. Dave Brubeck, Jazz Musician, Dies at 91 2012-12-05T18:31:41Z

May one or more of the 2016-17 female choreographers help make ballet’s world larger than it is. Dance This Fall: Indian Mythology and Ballets by Women 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

“I would never say ‘I’m the next thing for ballet,’” Mr. Ferver said. He Bridges Worlds: Dance and Fashion, Uptown and Downtown 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

The article at one point discussed the “aesthetic choices” of Rudolf Nureyev, the star Russian ballet dancer who led the Paris Opera Ballet for much of the 1980s. Paris Opera to Act on Racist Stereotypes in Ballet 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

Nobody in ballet today holds her torso that way; some refuse to believe anyone ever did. Degas?s Ballet at the Phillips Collection and Royal Academy 2011-09-02T12:39:28Z

“Oh my God, that first hour,” the City Ballet star Wendy Whelan said with a sigh when asked what it’s like to create a ballet. City Ballet Readies Architecture of Dance Festival 2010-04-24T02:16:00Z

Ms. Giddens, 41, who has been described as an anthropologist of traditional songwriting, said creating the ballet’s score was a chance to continue her goal of collaborating with, and highlighting stories about, black women. What if Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Told Their Love Story? What if It Were a Ballet? 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

Prokofiev's ballets don't transfer easily from stage to concert hall. Proms 52 & 53: LSO/Gergiev; I Fagiolini/Hollingworth – review 2012-08-23T14:17:46Z

“There has never been a picture in which the ballet and its special, magic world have been so beautifully and dreamily presented,” Bosley Crowther wrote in his Times review of the film in 1948. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and the Soul Train Awards 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

Roerich is most famous for designing the revolutionary ballet The Rite of Spring. Why Tolkien was a fine modern artist 2012-11-29T15:29:21Z

They felt, they said, “like a failure as a dancer and a failure as a representative nonbinary member of a ballet company.” A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

Those who approve of the claque say it transmits the sound of a vanishing generation, ordinary working people raised with a passion for classical ballet. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z

But it is the Royal that long ago established a tradition in this ballet that was hailed worldwide; Ms. McGorian and Mr. Whitehead are among those who keep it alive. Dance Review: ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ Evolves at the Royal Opera House 2014-02-25T22:34:51Z

It’s hard to think of a choreographer who better skirts the pitfalls of pop ballet, and in the operatic rock of Queen, Mr. McIntyre found a superior match. Trey McIntyre Puts His Company to Rest at Jacob’s Pillow 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

“If there was a ballet I wasn’t in, I’d go out into the house and overhear Mr. B talking to, say, the lighting man,” she recalled. Suzanne Farrell Ballet at Joyce Theater 2011-10-13T22:17:26Z

In the past, conductors, too, might have tired of the ballet’s familiar score, but the Tchaikovsky has renewed value now. Perspective | Don’t share the lipstick! How ballet companies are planning covid-free ‘Nutcrackers.’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

So yes, I think that is what drew me to initially want to translate it into a ballet. Alice in dance 2011-02-28T12:36:10Z

The problem was that it was unusual, and unusual wasn’t what ballet audiences in 1976 wanted. dance: Tharp Is Back Where the Air Is Rarefied 2010-03-05T21:17:00Z

Can a ballet made by a woman reflect a specifically female point of view? Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

American Ballet Theater’s productions of several Ashton and MacMillan ballets are largely identical to the Royal’s and often at least as well danced: his “Dream” and “Sylvia” generally work better at Ballet Theater. Royal Ballet Seeks Next Link 2011-04-24T00:48:54Z

A child’s first encounter with classical ballet may prompt a question: “How do they do that?” Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

In 1993, choreographer Robert North made a ballet version for his company in Gothenburg and I wrote another half hour of music. How we made The Snowman stage show 2012-12-17T18:02:55Z

Everyone else in opera has paid their dues ... and I guess by now I'm getting an easier ride because I've sort of paid some dues -- this is my fourth opera, I've written three ballets. Police drummer, Monty Python comic turn to opera 2011-04-05T15:44:40Z

The “Black Swan” view of ballet is that it’s an unnatural art in which women deny too many normal aspects of womanhood. Critic?s Notebook: The Many Faces of ?Black Swan,? Deconstructed 2011-02-09T23:04:37Z

Readers, what do you think: Is ballet dying? ArtsBeat: When the Critic Says an Art Form Is Dying 2010-11-19T22:46:00Z

Musicality in ballet includes the seeming ability to play with time: Ms. Mearns shows many aspects of rhythm and phrasing, and the secrets of both lingering and anticipation. Sara Mearns, in Her Prime at City Ballet, Inspires Debate and Awe 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

“It was a dream come true to be in her opera house, to perform her ballets and to be with her,” Ms. McClintock said in an interview. Marta Becket, Dancer in the Desert, Dies at 92 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

But City Ballet’s highs this year kept bringing the world’s greatest ballet repertory back into full dimension. Looking Back: Cunningham, Morris, Ratmansky, Hallberg and Cojocaru 2011-12-17T05:26:08Z

One was the "mother of Chinese ballet" Dai Ailian, founder of the Beijing Dance School and one of the ballet company directors. Step-by-step guide to dance: National Ballet of China 2011-08-11T16:28:27Z

"He epitomized both the old ballets and the modern ones, and he helped establish the importance of classical ballet in the United States." Frederic Franklin, British-born dancer, dies at 98 2013-05-05T21:28:13Z

The ballet is about love, with eruptions of play and rapturous swooning, but it has an undertow of misery. Review: City Ballet Celebrates Balanchine and Heeds Mother Nature 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

The difference is that Robbins sets it in a ballet studio. Jerome Robbins, Ballet’s Mr. ‘Take It Easy, Baby,’ at 100 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Her distinctive crest, two facing T’s that resemble a medieval cross, bedecks ballet flats from Manhasset to Myanmar; her signature caftans billow above thousands of tummies; the vice president’s wife carries one of her handbags. Critical Shopper: C. Wonder Stores ? Critical Shopper 2011-11-29T19:26:35Z

“There I was, with pronated feet, a rugby player, doing the Vaganova syllabus,” he said, referring to a Russian teaching system of ballet technique. A ‘Swan Lake’ About Ireland, Where Myth Meets the Mundane 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Berg films one of them in extreme slow motion, with shreds floating eerily and gracefully through the air in a virtual ballet of destruction. “Patriots Day,” a Police Procedural for the Age of Surveillance 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Part of the current reckoning with ballet seems to have much to do with the heartbreak of having to give it up. Finding Freedom and Feminism in Ballet. (It’s Possible.) 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

The thundering attack they bring to Nijinska’s extraordinary “Noces” is not remotely matched by any other productions of the ballet in the United States or Europe. Royal Ballet Seeks Next Link 2011-04-24T00:48:54Z

New to ballet when he attended the Joffrey production with me at the Kennedy Center this season, he can’t quite believe this music is really the same score: it sounds more synthetic, more pop. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: Let the Taped Music Ring 2010-12-07T18:00:00Z

But the kids are the ballet’s heart, the glue — what guides us down that path to feel the feelings. The Tiny Dancers Who Make ‘The Nutcracker’ Sparkle 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

While celebrating its 75th anniversary this fall, New York City Ballet is performing 18 ballets by its founding choreographer, George Balanchine. The Long Life and Long Reach of George Balanchine’s Butterflies 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z

In other words, these ballets in the sky are the automatic expression of simple acts of self-organisation. Why birds of a feather flock together 2011-08-20T23:05:48Z

Dance and music in Tudor ballets are often on quite different wavelengths; but there are many moments and phrases of brilliant timing that show how the two wavelengths coexist. Review: American Ballet Theater Opens Season at Lincoln Center 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

After this jaunty opening, the mood of the ballet darkened to one of mystery and fatefulness. When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

This quality is curiously unlike conventional theatricality here; instead it adds to the ballet’s immense tragic pathos. Dance Review: ‘Birthday Offering’ and ‘Les Noces’ at Royal Ballet, London 2012-07-08T21:27:34Z

He is perhaps drawn to the myth, since the ballet he was creating was based on Arnold Böcklin’s Orpheus-inspired painting “The Isle of the Dead.” Joffrey Ballet dazzles in L.A. Opera's 'Orpheus and Eurydice' 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Cultural institutions in Europe and North America, vowing not to hire performers who support Mr. Putin, have severed ties with some artists — most notably Mr. Gergiev — as well as orchestras, theaters and ballet companies. Citing Ukraine War, an American Resigns From Russia’s Mariinsky 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z

Ms. Semyonova is often credited with pushing the classical ballet tradition in Russia into the modern age. Marina Semyonova of Bolshoi Ballet Dies at 102 2010-06-10T04:52:00Z

I had imagined that any choreographer who might want to adapt my work would take a book I'd already made and somehow rethink it as a ballet. Raven Girl takes wing and flies onstage 2013-05-04T06:00:35Z

She has brought in collaborators, mostly from outside of ballet, to make dances for her and to join her onstage. Review: The Virtuoso Sara Mearns Considers Other Virtuosities 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

“In many ways this ballet was an ‘open ended question’ slash ‘response to everything that’s happening.’ Opening Ceremony Swaps the Runway for the Ballet Stage 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Wiesenthal developed her own technique, which she called spherical dance, and it was centered on a different axis than ballet. Dancing by Herself: When the Waltz Went Solo 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

But every night, I was performing in "The Nutcracker," and had been practicing the ballet for weeks. Horror stories of that holiday favorite "The Nutcracker" 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z

When “Bluebeard” was created, the company was still part of the Wuppertal Opera, performing in the corps de ballet of various productions. When Pina Bausch Made Tanz Into Tanztheater 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

He became the focus of attention last month when U.S. television host Lara Spencer commented on reports he was taking ballet lessons by saying “We’ll see how long that lasts.” Britain's Princess Charlotte, 4, starts school 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

On social media he has marshaled expressions of solidarity with Ukraine from across the ballet world, a world in which Russia has historically played a towering role. A Leading Choreographer Joins the War Effort, With Classical Ballet 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Of the freestyle categories, ballet skiing, with its 360-degree approach to the mountain slope, offered the most room for interpretation. When Ski Ballet Pushed at the Porous Boundary Between Art and Sport 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Do you have a moment that you look forward to in the ballet? Two Very Young Dancers, Living the ‘Nutcracker’ Dream 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

Earlier this month, this year’s Princes and Maries took a break from rehearsals to talk about the dedication and fun of training to become ballet dancers. After Misty Comes Marie. Breaking Barriers in ‘The Nutcracker.’ 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

The British pieces, also both based on literary works, are resolutely contemporary in spirit, with very different propositions about what a full-length classical ballet could be. Review: ‘The Red and the Black’ Is Sumptuous, but Safe 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

His other major ambition, he said, was to better integrate the ballet company into Australian society and culture. David Hallberg to Run the Australian Ballet 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Altuzarra can claim a more than grazing acquaintance with Old World culture, nourished by youthful excursions to the ballet, concert halls, museums and the Luxembourg Gardens — experiences that color his collections even now. New York Fashion Week: Another Season, Another Show 2011-02-10T00:06:03Z

A few years back, seasoned ballet dancer-choreographer Adam Miller was busy running his own dance company in Connecticut. Former PNB dancer at home under Cirque du Soleil's grand chapiteau 2010-06-02T00:03:00Z

It’s good to see all three ballets at San Francisco Ballet. 2010-02-14T22:34:00Z

But the company’s choice of modern ballets is seldom stunning. Critic’s Notebook: Taking Stock of City Ballet’s Secret Weapon 2014-03-03T22:56:00Z

Set to Haydn, the ballet relied on a puppet-show format and was achingly staid. Dance Review: 104 Degrees of Spirited Dancing 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z

Still, the ballet was idiosyncratic to a fault. The Tortured History Behind Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z