by Chava Pearl Lansky | Jun 30, 2019 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve rounded up some highlights. The Royal Ballet Brings “Mayerling” to Los Angeles The Royal Ballet heads to Los Angeles for two weeks of performances at The Music Center this summer. From...
by Joseph Carman | Jan 7, 2018 | Career
Ballet excels at defying gravity. Lightness, ethereality, wispiness, symmetry, lineal order, chivalry and blissful endings to well-worn tales bestow on ballet a reputation as an art form that embraces divine beauty and design. But themes of grief, trauma, death, war,...
by Nancy Wozny | Sep 7, 2017 | Profiles
Watching an emotionally gut-wrenching early rehearsal of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling at Houston Ballet on Aug. 17, it was clear that the Houston Ballet’s fall season was going to be steeped in deep drama. And it was, but for different reasons....