READING, Pa. - All over the world right now ballet companies are preparing to perform the timeless classic, "The Nutcracker." The Berks Ballet Theatre will perform theirs in a few weeks ...

The ballet told the story of the enslaved gladiator Spartacus, who led a failed revolt in ancient Rome. That tale that might bring to mind another revolution, one that did not fail: the Russian ...

Indianapolis Ballet's 2025-26 season will be marked by another major collaboration with the Indianapolis Symphony as well as several premieres. In September, the company will perform George ...

CROWN POINT | Karley Woodson is 12 years old, and for half of those years, she has spent the Christmas season onstage in productions of "The Nutcracker" ballet. This year the seventh grader at ...

He’ll also dance “Cool” from Robbins’s “West Side Story Suite” and the pas de deux and finale of George Balanchine’s “Stars and Stripes,” a ballet he’s been obsessed with since ...

BalletX, Philadelphia's premiere contemporary ballet company, has picked up a new recruit. As Eagles linebacker Nakobe Dean recovers from a knee injury he suffered during the playoffs last season ...

That includes training with a contemporary ballet company in Philadelphia, BalletX, to aid in his rehab. Dean made it clear that he didn't take up ballet because of a deep-seeded desire to dance.

When the world premiere of Houston Ballet Artistic Director Stanton Welch's new work Raymonda opens on May 29, Aaron Daniel Sharratt will be dancing the role of the Duke of Vermillion. He's one of ...

For only the second time in my 5 1/2 decades attending New York City Ballet’s spring seasons at Lincoln Center, the troupe presented no world premieres. Of the 26 ballets in rotation through ...

We can tell the story in more detail with the words of vocal music in the opera, whereas the ballet focuses on the core essence of the story, told through movement, pantomime, and dance.