by Meryl Cates | Jun 30, 2026 | Dance History, Pointe+, The Latest
In June 1941, after nearly two weeks at sea en route to Rio de Janeiro, George Balanchine and the dancers of the American Ballet Caravan barely had time to adjust their legs to solid ground before heading to the city’s lavish opera house. Balanchine waited for the 35...
by Kyra Laubacher | Sep 10, 2025 | News, The Latest
In 2023, visual artist Jamie Wyeth was looking through boxes of belongings from his late wife, Phyllis Mills Wyeth, when he stumbled upon a collection of his own paintings of legendary ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev. The pieces, most several decades old, had never been...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Dec 10, 2017 | Career, Dance History, Everything "Nutcracker"
Literary Roots E.T.A. Hoffmann, a German writer, penned the eerie and dark tale “Nutcracker and Mouse King” in 1816. About 30 years later, the French writer Alexandre Dumas took the Nutcracker story into his own hands, lightening things up and softening...