Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Preparing to take the stage in three different pieces by George Balanchine in the final weekend of the Sarasota Ballet season, ...

T he elder apostles of George Balanchine often gripe that his ballets, especially when staged by smaller companies, fall ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "My goal," said Lincoln Jones, "is to create an experience today that has the depth of [the art of the past] but also the ...

Tiler Peck's 'Symphonie Espagnole' dazzles alongside Balanchine and Robbins in New York City Ballet's SPAC program.

When Boston Ballet opens its season with George Balanchine’s landmark masterpiece “Jewels‚” the company honors a piece of its heritage. During the company’s early years, Balanchine was a staunch ...

The great choreographer George Balanchine (1904-83) famously told his dancers that he was “a cloud in trousers.” They assumed this implied he was a free spirit, but he was actually saying something ...

“I’m a tyrant,” claims ballet icon Suzanne Farrell, while coaching dancers of Boston Ballet recently at the company’s rehearsal space in the South End. But she says it with a warm smile, a soft voice, ...

Ballet is a silent art form. It relies on pantomime or movement alone to tell a story or convey emotion. Dancers do not speak, but rather become the music. This is the essence of ballet as conceived ...

The first of three seasons celebrating the 75th anniversary of New York City Ballet has been dubbed “The Foundation.” Its programs, which conclude on Sunday, are essentially a George Balanchine run ...