Ballet rehearsals frequently feature dancers executing pirouettes and plies. Most are unlikely to include slips and slides. Then again, most ballets don’t include water. In recent weeks, dancers at ...

“Amazing,” he adds, closing his eyes as if imagining himself in motion. “Sometimes when I just do it, listening to certain music, it just feels free, like no one’s around. It just feels like I’m my ...

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Hope Muir, Joan and Jerry Lozinski Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Canada, today announced the principal casting for the world premieres of Skyward by Alysa Pires and On Solid Ground by ...

“The Nutcracker,” on stage somewhere near you during the holiday season, counts among its second act “Land of the Sweets” dances a perky flute-saturated Tchaikovsky variation properly called “Tea” but ...

About half of the revenue for American ballet companies each year comes from the cozy seasonal favorite "The Nutcracker." Since COVID, they have become even more dependent on those sugarplum fairies.

CANTON − Cassandra Crowley sat in an empty dance studio at the home of the Canton Ballet. Rain drizzled outside on a gray day. Traffic could be heard faintly passing by. The tapping feet and flurry of ...

Pantages Theatre was the place to be Saturday night for an assortment of classic ballet snippets and modern ballet hits. World Ballet Festival had descended on downtown Minneapolis with its “Ballet ...