Perhaps it’s Tchaikovsky’s instantly recognizable score, the festive set design, fairytale costumes, or the familiarity of the plot – whatever the reason “The Nutcracker” has become a staple of the ...

It’s the day before the premiere of Swan Lake on May 12 at Havana’s Grand Theater, and backstage, the dancers of the Cuban National Ballet (BNC) corps are vibrating with nervous energy. The final ...

For its season at New York City Center, its first major engagement here in years, the company disappoints with mediocre repertory. By Gia Kourlas A fashion designer and a choreographer created a work ...

The annual festival, popular for its take-a-chance-priced tickets, opened with a show featuring work by Jamar Roberts, the tap dancer Dario Natarelli and Akram Khan. By Brian Seibert The fall dance ...

Often the hardest thing prima ballerina Tetiana Lozova has to do is just get home after a performance. When the electricity isn’t working, Lozova, a star dancer with the National Ballet of Ukraine, ...

This story has been corrected. Please see below for details. Here are things you will not see in choreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s production of “Romeo and Juliet” for the National Ballet of Canada: A ...

In Cuba, ballet is a matter of national pride—not simply one of the higher art forms for an elite few. Tickets are affordable, and ballet is popular and accessible. In a 2011 interview with The New ...

Life, fate, love, joy, sorrow, death… Shakespeare’s most famous romantic tragedy—and perhaps the most enduring in history—returns to dance this autumn on the stage of the Het Muziektheater, home of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is a country where top ballet dancers are treated like rock stars. Hundreds of fans line up at the stage ...