Ballet companies embark upon a creative expedition every season, in search of a new and different approach to dance. For City Ballet’s resident choreographers Geoff Gonzalez and Elizabeth Wistrich, ...
Founded during Louis XIV's opulent 17th-century reign and housed in the ornate Palais Garnier, the Paris Opera Ballet embodies Old World glamour. With "Red Carpet," a new work by choreographer Hofesh ...
The world of ballet is usually populated by swans, nutcrackers, spirits of the forest, sleeping beauties and firebirds, for starters. One thing you don’t usually see on the dance stage is the world of ...
Jose Martinez, dance director of the Paris Opera Ballet since 2022, is set on bringing pointe shoes into the 21st century. "It's important to bring the company into our time, to see how we can live ...
PARIS — Among the banners and placards at a demonstration in Paris on Thursday, one statement stood out: On top of what looked like a real pair of dancer’s legs and a tutu, a sign read, in French: ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PARIS (AP) — An air of surrealism enveloped ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Martinez, once a member of the company and a former leader of the National Dance Company of Spain, will take up the position in December. By Roslyn ...
The Paris Opera Ballet remains, as it has been for more than three centuries, one of the world’s most important ballet companies. The history of ballet would not be what it is without it. The company ...
Dance has been a connective thread through all of Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino’s shows. It hovered in the background of “Gilmore Girls,” made an apt setting for “Bunheads” and was a ...
Drury Lane Theatre's dreamy regional premiere of “An American in Paris” takes pains to set itself apart from the Tony Award-winning Broadway production. And one noticeable difference is how Lynne ...
Hugo Marchand talks about his memoir, “Danser,” about the intensity of the company and about dancing with Anselm Kiefer paintings. By Roslyn Sulcas Hugo Marchand, probably the starriest of the Paris ...
MOSCOW (Reuters Life!) - Russia's famed Bolshoi Theater will host the Paris Opera Ballet on Friday for the first time since the fall of communism, producing four neo-classical works from the second ...