Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights. New York City Ballet’s Winter Season Opens With Two All-Balanchine Programs After a quick post-Nutcracker break, New York City Ballet is back. The company’s winter season at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater runs January 21–March 1. The first week alternates between […]
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Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. ABT’s West Cost Premiere of “Harlequinade” American Ballet Theatre heads to California this week for the West Coast premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s Harlequinade. Inspired by Petipa’s original choreography, this delightful comic ballet features familiar commedia dell’arte characters and over 250 vivid and […]
This fall, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures presents the U.S. premiere of a fresh take on an old classic. The Red Shoes, based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale and an Academy Award–winning film, tells the story of Victoria Page, a dancer obsessed with passion and ambition who winds up in a triangle involving two […]
Matthew Bourne has made a choreographic career out of reimagining classic ballets and giving them dark, contemporary twists. His Sleeping Beauty, described as a “gothic romance” complete with vampires and fairies, is no exception. You can see for yourself tonight: PBS will air Sleeping Beauty as part of its Great Performances series on April 25 […]
You have to wonder how much experience Petipa actually had with swans. They’re elegant and graceful, yes–but they’re also mean, hissy, scary even. The male swans of Matthew Bourne’s wildly popular Swan Lake hit much closer to the mark, in that respect, than Petipa’s tutu-clad flock. Bourne’s beastly birds are seductive and arrogant–about as far […]
It’s a big year for ballet lovers. On Wednesday, November 1, get ready to celebrate the 10th anniversary of World Ballet Day! For the past decade, the annual event has given viewers an inside look at classes, rehearsals, and performance previews through livestreams from companies across the globe. This year’s celebration, hosted by The Royal […]
The 21st century has ushered in a wave of choreographic reimaginings of 18th- and 19th-century classical ballet stories. These new works reinterpret well-known narratives by infusing contemporary themes and choreographic styles while updating stories for today’s audiences. This year alone saw two major, revitalized productions of Marius Petipa’s 1898 Raymonda: Tamara Rojo’s, for English National […]