Ballet News

Irina Dvorovenko , a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre since 2000, will give her final performance with the Company tonight, May 18, 2013 at the Metropolitan Opera House in the role of Tatiana in Onegin.

Juan Carlo/The Star Savannah Jensen, of Camarillo, rehearses playing Cinderella at Footworks Youth Ballet in Ventura.

If you're a homeless young adult, chances are good that you're gay, bisexual or transgender.

Mount Pleasant Performing Arts Company dancers trained at Academy of Dance Arts with instructors Larisa Dahabi and Ann Bebergal started auditioning in January 2013 for various intensive dance programs throughout the country.

A 16-year-career on stage with the company as Charlie Chaplin's "Little Tramp," as Max in "Where The Wild Things Are" and as the Son in George Balanchine's "Prodigal Son" ends on Sunday.

The Festival at Sandpoint announced the line up for this year's annual summer concert series and it doesn't disappoint.

A military registration and enlistment office in the central Russian city of Kostroma granted a local resident's request to replace military service for him with alternative service as a ballet dancer, the city administration reported.

Let's just cut to the chase: All of the dancers in Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo are dudes.

After the San Francisco Ballet School Student Showcase , at the end of this month, the SF Ballet season will be over.

Nashville Ballet stages Shakespeare's tragedy about betrayal, greed, power and consequences in an intimate, workshop-style version of Macbeth at The Martin Center for Nashville Ballet with live music from ALIAS Chamber Ensemble, tonight, May 16 - 18.

Dance scholarship recipient, Mikhail Calliste, and CBTB Artistic Director, Marla Hirokawa.

Celebrate the evolution of Pennsylvania Ballet's repertoire with Company premieres by two of today's most influential choreographers - plus an innovative World Premiere by Matthew Neenan - with Forsythe & KyliA n, June 13-16, 2013 at the Academy of Music.

Northern Ballet are a small but much-loved company based in Leeds. Known for their impressive dance dramas, they regularly create innovative narrative ballets which are toured across the UK.

Ballet Folklorico Tonatiuh presents, Estampas y Recuerdos, an annual gala, at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday, at the Chamizal National Monument, 800 S. San Mercial.

Giselle's mad scene is one of the most melodramatic moments in romantic ballet: In the music, eerie echoes of sweet motifs dissolve into high tremors and low rumblings, while the peasant girl's hair comes loose, her eyes stare vacantly toward the balcony, and she threatens to plunge a sword into her bosom before dropping dead of a broken heart.

The youngsters, who train at the DM Academy in Shipley , were selected at an audition in February from more than 160 hopefuls.

For the second time this season, the New York City Ballet has paid tribute to one of the greats of Broadway.

The Charleston Youth Ballet is a regional pre-professional ballet company preserving and promoting the art of ballet and empowering young artist in the Charleston area by providing meaningful performance opportunities that bring joy to Charleston and its surrounding communities.

There are many inspirational forces at work behind The Asheville Ballet's production of An Appalachian Romance .

Kevin O'Hare as Edward II and Leticia Muller as 'Queen Isabella' in Birmingham Royal Ballet's production of 'Edward II' which opens in front of Princess Margaret at the Hippodrome tonight .