by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 10, 2019 | News, Onstage
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. PNB’s Director’s Choice Program Features Two World Premieres Pacific Northwest Ballet’s second mixed bill of the season, running March 15-24, features...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | May 13, 2018 | News
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. ABT Met Opera Season Opens with Giselle This week American Ballet Theatre moves into the Metropolitan Opera House for their annual 8-week season. From Alexei...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Apr 22, 2018 | News
Wonder what’s going on in ballet this week? We’ve pulled together some highlights. NYCB Spring Season Opens NYCB’s 2018 Spring Season opens on April 24. The next six weeks are filled with all of what NYCB has to offer including classic works by...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Mar 11, 2018 | News, Viral Videos
From celebrations of Jerome Robbins’ centennial to exciting premieres to old classics, this week is jam packed with ballet. We rounded up highlights from eight companies to give you a sense of what’s happening onstage this week. The Washington Ballet On...
by Chava Pearl Lansky | Feb 8, 2018 | News
This weekend features two romantic ballets right on time for Valentine’s Day, a mixed repertory program by New York Theatre Ballet including a work by Gemma Bond and plenty of Olympic figure skating featuring our favorite former dancer, Nathan Chen. Ballet West...
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 Amy Brandt | Mar 20, 2017 | Company Life
March 20–21 marks Arts Advocacy Day, when cultural organizations and grassroots advocates meet with members of Congress in Washington, DC, to rally support for policies and public funding for the arts. And it’s a particularly urgent time. In addition to...
by Amanda Silliker | Aug 1, 2009 | Call Board, Company Life
Perhaps taking its cue from the Metropolitan Opera, whose recent movie theater simulcasts have sold out across the country, the New York Theatre Ballet is making its big-screen debut. Beginning August 13, movie-going audiences can get a behind-the-scenes look at some...