On a recent Saturday morning, in an over-100-year-old former church near Stillwater, a ballet student glided across the hardwood floor before leaping upwards. “Use your arms to help you in the ...

Peoria Ballet Coppelia ...

Ian Thatcher, the artistic director for the Peoria Ballet Company, stopped by WMBD This Morning to share a brief ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Colorado West Performing Arts Company presents Coppélia, a ballet that follows the characters of Swanhilda and Franz, and a toymaker’s mysterious doll.

The ballet dancing legend Rudolf Nureyev sought asylum in France from Soviet Russia on this day in 1961. He believed tha if he returned home from a trip to Paris with the Kirov Company he'd be ...

Ever since Nureev defected while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet (TIME, June 23, 1961) and began to be hailed there as a major star in his performances with the Marquis de Cuevas Ballet ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Coppélia, a story ballet, is hardly a ...

Uliana Lopatkina, the principal dancer with Russia's Kirov Ballet, will make her Canadian début Feb. 10 at the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Renowned for her interpretation of Mikhail Fokine ...

Coppélia, a mechanical doll made by the toy-maker Dr. Coppelius, is so life-like that some believe she is his daughter. The mistake leads to intrigue and jealousy in love. Directed by Ross ...

Britain’s Royal Ballet and what is now St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Ballet – Leningrad’s Kirov Ballet when Nureyev was there. After its initial revival in Vienna in 2024, this first Asian ...