Ballet

Go to Source A classic tune by The Beatles provided the backdrop for a performance by Dubbo Ballet Studio during yesterday's Dubbo Eisteddfod session. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds was a dreamscape performed as…

Go to Source The principal dancer and choreographic associate at the National Ballet of Canada is one of the country’s (and the world’s) most accomplished men in tights. This week, Guillaume Côté, 32, will reprise his role as Romeo…

Go to Source As a general rule, there is a lot more to reviving a great ballet than merely joining the dots. Frederick Ashton’s plotless works are reduced to pretty patterns if they aren’t cast to the hilt with musical dancers who know…

Go to Source Hot on the heels of winning the Kyknet Fiesta Award for Best Dance Production 2014 for SKOONVELD, Underground Dance Theatre returns to the National Arts Festival Fringe with BOK. BOK has Underground Dance Theatre re-imagining…

Go to Source Thierry Malandain, artistic director of the Malandain Ballet Biarritz Company, is a prolific choreographer who relies on ballet technique, mixed with more contemporary characteristics. On its first visit, this regional company…

Go to Source On Thursday, I sat at my desk, the sounds of the first match of the 2014 World Cup mingling with the clicks of computer mice and keyboard keys in the newsroom. They are lovely sounds really. …

Go to Source NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Ajkun Ballet Theatre, a New York City based professional ballet company, invites children of Westchester County, grades pre-k - 8, to participate in our 2014 production of The Nutcracker.…

Go to Source DOHA: People from various cultures have applauded “One Thousand and One Nights” ballet which recently opened at the Katara Opera House. The ballet in two acts, based on an anthology of folk tales in Arabic…

Go to Source Ajkun Ballet Theatre has announced its Summer 2014 season in New York City. Details below! Performing in New Yok PASS Description: Follow the Ajkun Ballet Theatre's company backstage and on tour for an…

Go to Source Six dynamic dance performances, featuring the company’s talented dancers aged between 11 and 17 in various classical works and a new contemporary piece form part of the youth celebrations later this month.Picture:…

Go to Source Maleficent isn't the only witch in town. Madge, the evildoer in August Bournonville's 1836 Romantic ballet "La Sylphide" also has been creating misery (and laughs). As devilishly portrayed by Los…

Go to Source Bonnie Behrman , Reader Submitted The "Bumblebees" and "Butterflies" from "A Midsummer Night's Dream."(Photo: Bernard Maisner) The Spring Student Ballet & Music Recitals were held at the Bay Head…

Go to Source Merry cavorting villagers turn up often in classical ballets, usually as the background setting to something more sombre involving princes and wraiths, and they are frequently, frankly, just a bit of a yawn. But…

Go to Source TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Rick Scott is poring over projects lawmakers tucked into the state's $77.1 billion budget that range from a Central Florida bicycle trail and gay men's chorus in Broward County to a Panhandle…

Go to Source "Oaklandesque" is not an adjective in common usage, but if Graham Lustig has his way, this admission of the singularity of the city across the bay should soon find a place in the vocabulary of dance practitioners…

Smuin Ballet opened its spring series and the climax of its 20th anniversary season Friday evening at the Lam Research Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, with the kind of program one hopes to see more of from this…

ABTKids, a unique hour-long program designed for children and families, will present a performance of highlights from American Ballet Theatre's 2014 Spring Season on Saturday, May 17 at 11:30 A.M. at the Metropolitan…

Brianna Hobson and her family will be selling cakes this weekend, to further her ballet ambitions. Photo/Stuart Munro The family of Wanganui's 16-year-old Brianna Hobson is making a massive effort to get her to an intensive five days of…

By Sandra Kurtz Almost forgotten today, the name Tanaquil Le Clercq was once renowned in the dance world. Joining the New York City Ballet in the early ’50s, tall and long-limbed at a time when most women in ballet were…

“Holy Cow! There’s no room to hide on this program! It is nothing but fantastic music!” That’s how this weekend’s El Paso Symphony Orchestra guest artist, renowned timpanist Dr. Andrew Spencer, reacted by…

The classic fairytale, ‘The Little Mermaid’ will be re-told in dramatic dance at The Theatare at the Mill on Wednesday, May 7. Ballet Theatre UK will perform the story of a mermaid and her love for a human…

The ambition of local choreographers just keeps growing. Katie Puder’s holistically conceived, flawlessly executed Alice in Wonderland for her Avant Chamber Ballet group is the latest example, marking another step…

Wednesday evening's West Coast premiere of Alexei Ratmansky's "Shostakovich Trilogy" by the San Francisco Ballet yielded one of those rare co-commissions (with American Ballet Theater) in which every moment feels like a…

Stead is responsible for managing all marketing efforts and public relations within the organization, as well as group and season ticket sales. Meredith joins the Ballet Idaho team with more than ten years experience in arts and…

Ballet San Antonio has been taking their dancers out of the halls for public performances recently. I caught up with Ballet San Antonio's President Courtney Barker to find out where they’re headed next, which is…

An outbreak of eccentricity swept through the New York City Ballet at the Kennedy Center Opera House on Wednesday, and oh, what grand delirium ensued. It began as touches of comedy in Christopher Wheeldon’s “Soiree Musicale,” then…

Menlowe Ballet's latest four-show production, "Transcendence," takes the Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center stage this weekend, with a "Community Day" performance at 2 p.m. Saturday giving members of nonprofit and…

  Fans filled the seats at the Cowles Center on Sunday night to celebrate James Sewell Ballet co-founder Sally Rousse. “Sally Jubilee!” marked the dancer/choreographer’s 50th birthday and the end of an era as she is moving on from the…

Join us Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3, 7:30pm at the Miami City Ballet Ophelia and Juan Js. Roca Center, Lynn and Louis Wolfson, II Theatre when Miami City Ballet School - the official school of Miami City…

The title of Maggie Shipstead's second novel is: Astonish Me. She did just that —astonish me — with her debut novel of 2012, called Seating Arrangements. After reading that novel, I likened the then…