Ballet News

For someone who was the most famous American ballerina on planet Earth in the '60s when she became the muse for legendary choreographer George Balanchine, Suzanne Farrell is a remarkably shy person.

This weekend and next, the Cincinnati Ballet presents the balletic interpretation of the opera 'Carmen' at the Aronoff Center for the Arts .

A The Brandon Ballet returns to the stage with "Cinderella," a full-length, classical ballet scored by Sergei Sergeyevich A Prokofiev and billed as a "comical, yet grand and beautiful ballet sure to entertain and inspire your entire family." Founded by Alice Holden Bock, the Brandon Ballet is in residence at the Dance Center in Brandon, at 161 East ... (more)

Photo by Burnie Flake. Principal dancer Regina Willoughby stars as Princess Aurora in the Colombia City Ballet's "The Sleeping Beauty." Photo by Burnie Flake.

Ballet Jorgen will perform classical and modern pieces at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre on Sunday night.

It has survived communist oppression, the Cold War, the break-up of the Soviet Union and counted Josef Stalin and Elvis Presley among its admirers, but at its heart the Georgian National Ballet has always been a bit of a family business.

Madelyn Nelson, left, and other students of the School of the Lexington Ballet troupe rehearsed for Ion Dance.

The San Gorgonio Ballet and School of Dance plans to host auditions for a Children's Storybook Theatre production of the fairy tale "Snow White" on Saturday Feb.

Morning Edition has been asking people what music makes them move, in order to create The Ultimate NPR Workout Mix.

The title character of Broadway musical "Billy Elliot" is a young British boy who takes ballet lessons in secret, fearful of what friends and family might think.

Pennsylvania Ballet presents choreographer Robert Weiss's Messiah , set to the universally popular score by George Frideric Handel and featuring The Philadelphia Singers, March 8-17, 2012 at the Academy of Music.

A former prima ballerina's repeated statements that anorexia is rampant at Milan's famed La Scala theater have startled the dance corps, which issued a statement Wednesday denying the eating disorder was an issue.

Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone reunites with the New York City Ballet for Kurt Weill 's The Seven Deadly Sins beginning Feb.

The Young People's Ballet Theatre will be performing a theatrical interpretation of the classic book, "Heidi," at the University of Michigan-Flint Theater.

GO! Contemporary Dance Works presents its world premiere of 'ALICE,' a full-length contemporary ballet based on the Lewis Carroll novel 'Alice in Wonderland' Feb.

Classical Ballet provides the technical foundation for most all other dance forms.

Alberta Ballet invited media to the first dress rehersal of the company's of production of Cinderella.

It wasn't because she's an original resident of Lauderdale West, who actually watched her beloved home being built in 1974.

Atlanta Ballet will perform Twyla Tharp's world premiere of The Princess and the Goblin at Cobb Energy Centre.

A battle might not sound like a cue for romance, but in matters of the heart the battle of the sexes has been raging for centuries.