by Kyra Laubacher | Mar 3, 2026 | News, The Latest
The past few weeks have brought another exciting round of ballet career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in your March 2026 roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments On Saturday, February 28, New York City Ballet announced the...
by Kyra Laubacher | May 7, 2025 | News, The Latest
The past few weeks have brought another exciting round of ballet career news—check out the latest farewells, appointments, promotions, and more in your May 2025 roster roundup. Promotions and Appointments Maya Schonbrun has been promoted to principal at Royal Swedish...
by Kyra Laubacher | Sep 19, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Seven years ago, world-renowned choreographers Vasily Medvedev and Stanislav Fečo founded the Petipa Heritage Foundation. Their goal: to preserve, restore, and enhance the works of Marius Petipa, the father of classical ballet. Together, Medvedev and Fečo have...
by Hugo Marchand As Told To Laura Cappelle | Jan 20, 2019 | Profiles, Technique
Onegin isn’t a regular ballet character: He’s neither good nor bad, but gray, in between. I started by reading Alexander Pushkin’s verse poem, and I found it difficult. It portrays an emotional state that is very Russian: This existential melancholy...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 25, 2018 | News
In 1948, George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein founded New York City Ballet at New York City Center. This year, in honor of its 75th anniversary, City Center is bringing together eight companies—American Ballet Theatre, The Joffrey Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet,...
by Amy Brandt | May 17, 2017 | Company Life
In November, Lincoln Center announced that three of the world’s biggest companies—New York City Ballet, Paris Opéra Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet—would present a collaborative performance of George Balanchine’s Jewels July 20–23 in...