Ballet is a storytelling art that has no written language. It is classical and modern, intellectual and emotional, athletic and cerebral, and, for many, the embodiment of joy in movement. Host Scott ...

The cast of characters is large and, in some respects, surprising. Imagine Louis XIV, Napoleon, Stalin and Khrushchev finding dance matters crucial to affairs of state. As portrayed by Jennifer Homans ...

Graham Lustig, artistic director of the Oakland Ballet, Angel Island choreographer, Phil Chan, and dancers, Ashley Thopiah ...

When Oakland Ballet Artistic Director Graham Lustig began planning the fourth annual Dancing Moons Festival about two years ago, he had little idea that it would arrive amid heated headlines about the ...

Jennifer Homans's history of the art, culture and political context of ballet is like a beautiful painting in a slightly askew frame. She is a former dancer who trained at the School of American ...

Despite the troupe’s renaming, Angel Corella (center) remains the star of Barcelona Ballet. Erin Baiano Angel Corella looks like a man who’s finally come home. American Ballet Theatre’s beloved ...

The resignation two weeks ago of Ethan Stiefel as artistic director of Ballet Pacifica and the collapse of that company’s artistically ambitious plans are a debacle. Groundwork had been laid as though ...

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Philadelphia Ballet invites audiences into a dazzling world of romance and elegance with its upcoming production of The Merry Widow, running March 5 - 15 at the Academy of Music. This full-length ...

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Choreographer Chanel DaSilva’s “Swing Low” begins with a dancer — naked heaving torso, tight bluejeans, brown confining face mask — lying among strewed feathers. He might be dead. Even so, the plumage ...

The first time I checked in with Angel Corella was a dozen years ago. He was already a star - a young Spanish cyclone with a sunny, generous presence who could routinely whip up a dozen spins or more ...