Like most ballet dancers, I vividly remember getting my first pair of pointe shoes. They were by Gamba — a legendary Covent Garden maker that now belongs to the French house Repetto. Always ...

Barelegged swans are a bit like baseball players without caps. But as the art form confronts its history of racial ...

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Founded in 1931 by Dame Ninette de Valois, the Royal Ballet is the largest of the five ... principal partner in nearly a century of history. Similar to the Royal Opera’s longstanding partnership ...

Still, representations and studies of the painting as well as the upcoming ballet performance bring the statement to a Cleveland audience. In “Guernica,” Bourtasenkov says, “Picasso sees the ...

A new film chronicling the history of ski ballet coupled with a release party confirms the sport is still alive and well.

The ballet “Swan Lake” has an iconic history; the tale of the cursed Swan Queen, her lover Prince Siegfried, and the deception that led to their deaths was first performed at the Bolshoi ...

The company’s new dance, with original music by Gilbert Castellanos, will be presented Saturday with the tango-infused “Tangata” ...