Along with the season, Carney is pleased to note the return of the holiday classic, The Nutcracker ... featuring works by George Balanchine and Agnes De Mille, and a fresh, exciting world ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s an ill wind . . . The Royal Ballet’s triple bill of masterpieces by George Balanchine was menaced ...

Dance historians often note that George Balanchine adored women. Sure: so did Henry VIII. The Russian-American choreographer too was much married, and his creative leaps were often spurred by a new ...

New York City Ballet’s 2025-26 season, the company announced Monday, will feature four world premieres; the return of George Balanchine’s “Symphonie Concertante,” last performed by the ...

Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze – George Balanchine to the world – was the Russian-born choreographer of Georgian descent who gave the US its own lofty, leggy, sparkling strain of neo-classical ...

George Balanchine’s Coppélia is a big ballet and not just because ... Part of the solution was to use the special, heavy-duty floor that was created for the Nutcracker to strengthen the floor of the ...

Is the Royal Ballet a “Balanchine company”? The question was posed at a recent Insight evening to Patricia Neary, the ...

Watching Balanchine should be a pleasure, but that isn't always the case. Why? Because we all know what the work can mean if fully realised. And if it isn't? One can have a lovely evening at the ...

All top international ballet companies would be considered incomplete without a handful of George Balanchine’s works in their repertoire. One of the greatest 20th-century dance-makers, his creations ...

More than 100 years after the 1870 premiere of Coppélia, George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova re-created the ballet for 20th century audiences, infusing it with theatrical charm and modern ...