Continuing its run of historic ballet firsts, the Segerstrom Center opened its 30th season on Thursday night with the U.S. premiere of the Mariinsky Ballet and Orchestra’s production of the rare three ...
Boston Ballet has an ambitious goal for its upcoming “Winter Experience” Feb. 22-March 3 at the Citizens Bank Opera House. Artistic director Mikko Nissinen likens it to a cinematic double feature, ...
City Ballet of San Diego’s 29th-anniversary “Season Like No Other” certainly was: four productions — including two world premieres — and except for a live, in-the-round presentation of “The Nutcracker ...
Stanton Welch’s commitment to keeping classical technique alive at Houston Ballet takes a new turn this week with the premiere of his “Raymonda,” a grand production that promises three hours of ...
Houston Ballet soloist Danbi Kim as Princess Raymonda, visiting principal dancer Chun Wai Chan as Jean and choreographer Stanton Welch rehearing Raymonda. Credit: Photo by Alana Campbell, Courtesy of ...
In the opening scene of SF Ballet’s “Raymonda,” a man shoots a woman. Then he steps out from behind his camera. Like a phrase whose double meaning is only revealed when you read it aloud, the initial ...
The ENB director has pulled the story forward to the Crimean war, based the female lead on Florence Nightingale – and adapted the choreography for today’s more slender dancers When people talk about ...