by Kyra Laubacher | Oct 9, 2025 | News, Onstage, The Latest
Yesterday, Misty Copeland, American Ballet Theatre, The Misty Copeland Foundation, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts announced that Copeland’s farewell performance at ABT’s Fall Gala on Wednesday, October 22, will be live streamed to Lincoln Center’s Alice...
by Kyra Laubacher | Aug 18, 2025 | News, Onstage, The Latest
It’s a classic story of forbidden love: Zhu Yingtai, an heiress pursuing the education forbidden to her as a woman in ancient China, disguises herself as a man to attend school—where she falls in love with fellow student Liang Shanbo. Later, when Yingtai reveals her...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Jul 24, 2025 | News, Onstage, The Latest
The folktale Legend of the White Snake is as familiar to Chinese school children as Sleeping Beauty or Princess and the Pea are to those of us who grew up with Brothers Grimm fairytales. Now, Western audiences will have the chance to see this famous Chinese folktale...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Oct 10, 2023 | News, Onstage, The Latest
On October 11, 1948, the curtain at the City Center for Music and Drama opened on New York City Ballet for the first time. The then-fledgling company performed three George Balanchine ballets: Concerto Barocco, Orpheus, and Symphony in C. Balanchine and his...
by Kyra Laubacher | Aug 10, 2021 | Onstage, The Latest
What happens when five of New York City’s largest dance companies join forces? BAAND Together Dance Festival: five-nights of outdoor performances by Ballet Hispánico, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet and Dance Theatre...
by Amy Brandt | May 14, 2020 | Dance Magazine, Dance Spirit, Dance Teacher, News, The Latest
Uodated 6/11/2020: Please note that some performances have been rescheduled. New dates updated below. How many of us have hovered breathlessly over our iPads, watching grainy YouTube footage of Gelsey Kirkland and Mikhail Baryshnikov in Theme and Variations? Or...
by Lucy Van Cleef | Nov 4, 2018 | News, Profiles
As the Hungarian National Ballet prepares its first U.S. tour to New York City’s Lincoln Center this week amid a busy fall season in Budapest, first soloist Lili Felméry and principal dancer Gergő Ármin Balázsi have a lot on their...
by Anna Maples | Aug 5, 2018 | News
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. Vail Dance Festival Races to the Finish Line This Sunday, Vail Dance Festival wraps up an eventful few weeks jam-packed with premieres, collaborations and guests. The final...