Let’s be honest. For most people, ballet is just a blur of leaping, turning, and pointed toes. But for the true devotee, there are great differences between the flowing movement of Italy’s Cecchetti ...

While celebrating its 75th anniversary this fall, New York City Ballet is performing 18 ballets by its founding choreographer, George Balanchine. But to get a sense of the global standing of ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "Mr. Balanchine revolutionized the look of classical ballet by taking the ...

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 ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: It’s interesting timing that On Pointe, a docuseries about the real-life School of American Ballet, is coming on the heels (or more likely, toes) of Netflix’s YA series ...

George Balanchine once said ballets are like butterflies, as if to suggest the beauty of a ballet performance was in the dancers’ ability to express the art in that moment, since it will be gone ...

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The first part of “Mr B”, Jennifer Homans’s engrossing (and occasionally exhausting) biography of George Balanchine, is a journey across the political and cultural landscape of the early 20th century.

A holiday classic is back! Every year around December, productions of The Nutcracker (especially the beloved New York City Ballet version) come back to enchant longtime ballet-lovers and newcomers ...

There are many ballet luminaries but few superstars like Suzanne Farrell. She joined the New York City Ballet in 1961 and became muse to legendary choreographer George Balanchine. After performing in ...