ORLANDO, Fla. – George Balanchine is considered one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th century. He’s also known as the father of American Ballet. Martha Graham reshaped American dance, ...

"My goal," said Lincoln Jones, "is to create an experience today that has the depth of [the art of the past] but also the immediacy of what those things had in their own time." (Jane Kim / For The ...

San Francisco Ballet opens its season with the glittering camp of Balanchine's "Stars and Stripes," a patriotic ballet that ...

Set to Tchaikovsky’s “Mozartiana Suite,” Balanchine’s ballet is often described as a reflective summation of his artistic life. Created in 1981 for the Tchaikovsky Festival, it was the choreographer’s ...

He was born in St. Petersburg and trained at the Imperial Ballet School, later moving to Europe; it was here that he met Sergei Diaghilev and joined the groundbreaking Ballet Russes as a choreographer ...

Miami City Ballet will present Into the Magic City, running February 20–22 at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami and February ...

GEORGE BALANCHINE considered his ballets ephemeral: “A breath, a memory, then gone.” He worked hard in the moment and, following a near fatal illness in his youth, for the moment, so it is easy to ...

And it's easy to see why George Balanchine's seminal work seemed like a dance from the moon when Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes first performed it in 1928. At its Houston Ballet premiere Thursday, ...

Ballerinas stir in the early afternoon light that shines through a fountain and into the studio. A jeté flashes in silhouette, a pirouette vanishes like a whisper. The dance is not there yet, but ...