Balanchine’s The Prodigal Son, performed by the Royal Ballet - Foteini Christofilopoulou Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze – George Balanchine to the world – was the Russian-born choreographer of ...

NEW YORK — A sense of momentousness charged the air Wednesday night when New York City Ballet performed “Symphony in C.” That 1947 masterpiece by George Balanchine is a staple of the company’s ...

GEORGE BALANCHINE considered his ballets ephemeral: “A breath, a memory, then gone.” He worked hard in the moment and, following a near fatal illness in his youth, for the moment, so it is easy to ...

Cameron Catazaro and Ashley Knox In Jerome Robbins' "The Afternoon of a Faun." Miami City Ballet presented the fourth and final program of its 37th season of dance last week at the Kravis Center with ...

American Contemporary Ballet will present SPECTACULAR BALANCHINE! June 4-20 at Bank of America Plaza in Los Angeles, ...

Two principal dancers will say farewell in the 2026-27 season, which features the revival of Balanchine’s “Pithoprakta” and ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. arthouse distributor Zeitgeist Films, in association with Kino Lorber, has acquired all rights in North America to new doc feature In Balanchine’s Classroom. The two firms, which have ...

Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century, Jennifer Homans, Random House, 784 pages. Could it be that traditional gender roles will only survive on the ballet stage? True, the people who make and ...

Seventeen women in tulle stand in moonlight, right arms raised, hands flexed to the sky as Tchaikovsky's chords swell. The opening of George Balanchine's "Serenade," the centerpiece of San Francisco ...