Those have demands all their own, and Northern's dancers don't have the chance to work familiarity with those demands into their bones.So the opportunity offered this year to dance repertoire by ...

The trailblazing ballerina returned to the stage after five years for one final performance at a gala for American Ballet Theater. By Sarah Bahr and Nina Westervelt The company, now run by Susan Jaffe ...

The Opera House's new season continues with a joyful celebration of Kenneth MacMillan, seeing the Royal Ballet joined by the country's other top companies for a rare spectacle. Birmingham Royal Ballet ...

The herculean effort of ballet notator and répétiteur Diana Curry to reconstruct the full 45 minutes of Baiser from a film and a few incomplete annotated scores is impressive, and the end result has ...

From Russia: centuries-old grandeur. From America: tradition retooled in a neoclassic classic. And from Great Britain: a little-known work for six barefoot dancers wearing paper crowns and garlands.

3 Photos: New Look At JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR West End Starring Sam Ryder and More 4 Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, Starring Sam Ryder Mayerling, Kenneth MacMillan's dark tale of dangerous obsession, ...

When Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling premiered in 1978 it was “revolutionary”, said Sarah Crompton in The Observer – taking ballet into hitherto unexplored realms of “psychosis and misery”. It is based ...

In honour of the hugely influential Kenneth MacMillan, a choreographer who was way ahead of his time, the legendary ballerina Viviana Durante directs a programme from his enthralling earliest works.

Monica Parker has taught Sir Kenneth MacMillan's ballet Manon so many times that she rarely needs to refer to the two red binders of Benesh notation she lugs with her from England. They contain a ...

IT IS rare enough for ballet to take a true story as its subject matter, rarer still for that storyline to be overtaken by the march of science. But such is the case of “Anastasia”, a ballet inspired ...