by Kyra Laubacher | Jun 27, 2022 | Onstage, The Latest
When choreographer Christopher Williams was 20, he saw Matthew Bourne’s reimagining of Swan Lake with its corps of all-male swans. The performance, he says, made him burst into tears and think, “I must do something like this someday.” Williams’ dream will be realized...
by Julia Guiheen | Jan 6, 2021 | Viral Videos
Les Sylphides, choreographed by Michel Fokine to music by Frédéric Chopin, is often considered the first plotless ballet. It transports the audience, not through a story, but through mood and music. The ballet’s romantic aesthetic allows dancers to make artistic...
by Julia Guiheen | Aug 22, 2018 | Profiles, TBT
When Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn began dancing together in the early 1960s, they made an unexpected pair—he was a young, hot-tempered Soviet defector and she was a distinguished prima of The Royal Ballet, 19 years his senior. Yet their partnership (which lasted...
by Hannah Chang Foster | May 25, 2016 | Company Life
Pop quiz: which ballet looks just like Giselle, La Bayadère’s Kingdom of Shades and La Sylphide’s forest scene, but has little in common with any of them? Hint: it’s often confused with the last ballet on that list. Les Sylphides , originally named...