Plus, an ode to Sinéad O'Connor, the Washington Ballet celebrates 50 years and Dance Theatre of Harlem revives its ...

George Balanchine's "Serenade" — which will open PNB's 2026-27 season — is a dance seemingly made from moonlight, writes arts ...

The New York City Ballet will perform Balanchine’s “Symphony in C” during its run at the Kennedy Center next week. (Paul Kolnik) Perspective by Sarah L. Kaufman When a choreographer dies, the art left ...

The choreographer Alexei Ratmansky and his wife, Tatiana, returned to the national ballet company at a bleak moment, bringing ...

Ballet is a silent art form. It relies on pantomime or movement alone to tell a story or convey emotion. Dancers do not speak, but rather become the music. This is the essence of ballet as conceived ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "My goal," said Lincoln Jones, "is to create an experience today that has the depth of [the art of the past] but also the ...

When Boston Ballet opens its season with George Balanchine’s landmark masterpiece “Jewels‚” the company honors a piece of its heritage. During the company’s early years, Balanchine was a staunch ...

The first of three seasons celebrating the 75th anniversary of New York City Ballet has been dubbed “The Foundation.” Its programs, which conclude on Sunday, are essentially a George Balanchine run ...

George Balanchine ranks as America’s greatest choreographer based on the breadth, beauty, and originality of his ballets, which are performed by companies around the world. The documentary film In ...

In 1934, a few months after his arrival in New York, George Balanchine choreographed “Serenade.” It was his first ballet for American dancers, a seminal work that marked the way he was to reshape and ...

George Balanchine once said ballets are like butterflies, as if to suggest the beauty of a ballet performance was in the dancers’ ability to express the art in that moment, since it will be gone ...