"Marius Petipa: The Emperor's Ballet Master" by Nadine Meisner; Oxford University Press, $34.95 Not all queers want in their dreams to dance like swans. Even so, the image that probably comes to mind ...

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In a celebration of ballet’s rich history and modern influence, the Petipa Heritage Foundationis set to host anawards gala on Sept. 23. The event, dedicated to honoring exceptional ballet dancers and ...

Seattle — It’s Degas heaven as dozens of teenage ballerinas in lacy white tutus, with ribbons around their waists and necks, flood the stage of McCaw Hall, this city’s newly refurbished opera house.

A new production of the ballet sets it in 1930s Hollywood instead of a mythic India, eliminating Orientalist clichés while embracing American ones. By Marina Harss Tamara Rojo, San Francisco Ballet’s ...

The cavalier expansively offers his hand in a descending arc through the air. As the ballerina places her hand in his, she steps onto point and extends one leg behind her. Welcome to ballet. This ...

As “Swan Lake’” unfolded on the waves and flights of Tchaikovsky’s haunting score, the work—which had its North American premiere on Friday with the Miami City Ballet at the Adrienne Arsht Center for ...

The instructions received were at once specific and allusive: 16 bars of music here to arouse expectations, 24 bars there for a “haughty and finicky” dance. In one place, hunting horns were called for ...

“La Bayadère” is one of ballet’s classic works, the 1877 tale of a warrior torn between duty and love. From its origins at the Mariinsky Ballet, the Russian company that dates to the 1740s, “La ...

Decades before Cecil B. DeMille sent horse-drawn chariots thundering through the desert, the world’s most famous ballet choreographer created an epic version of Egypt for the stage, and paraded live ...