Principal dancer Alison Roper has decided to hang up her pointe shoes after 18 years with the Oregon Ballet Theatre. Her last performance will be Celebrate, a production in part honoring her storied career with the company. Oregon Public Broadcasting…
Under the direction and mentorship of Serge Diaghilev, the visual artists, composers and choreographers that worked with the Ballets Russes transformed ballet into an avant-garde art form, breaking with tradition and looking for something new, something that reflected the modernity…
When 'Art Danced With Music': Ballets Russes Inspires New Choreography in 21st Century…
// In his 2011 role as the prince in Sleeping Beauty, David Hallberg became the first American principal dancer at the Bolshoi, the world’s largest ballet company and Russian cultural epicenter since its founding in 1776.
Ballet star David Hallberg returns to the stage of the famed Bolshoi theatre in Moscow this summer for the first time since an acid attack left Bolshoi artistic director, Sergei Filin, badly burned and nearly blind last January. Hallberg became…
Inside the Acid Attack on the Artistic Director of the Bolshoi Ballet…
Art Beat talks to "First Position" director Bess Kargman.
When "The Nutcracker" premiered in America in the 1940s, the holiday show became a perennial favorite and a reliable moneymaker for big and small ballet companies around the country. Since then, Tchaikovsky's ballet has been re-imagined innumerable times, customized to…
Ballet in America was once dominated by a few major companies and concentrated in New York and a handful of other cities. But today there are more than 65 professional, million-dollar-budget ballet companies all around the country.
Ballet in America was once dominated by a few major companies and concentrated in New York and a handful of other cities. But today there are more than 65 professional, million-dollar-budget ballet companies all around the country.
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