In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...
Sacramento Ballet will wrap its 2023-24 season at a technical and inventive peak with Innovations (May 17-19, 2024), a thrilling bill of challenging, in-demand works. The performances feature Apollo - ...
That’s the idea behind ÜNI, Boston Ballet’s public art installation that’ll be parked on the Tanglewood campus for the weekend of July 12 and 13, when the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Ballet ...
One way of approaching Igor Stravinsky’s new ballet Agon, in première at the New York City Center last week, is through a kind of game. The game: listening to the score alone (on an excellent new ...
One of the reasons, if a lesser one, that Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring") created a scandal at its Paris premiere on May 29, 1913 –more than a century ago now– was that, ...
A $20,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant will help Ballet Quad Cities and the Cedar Rapids-based Orchestra Iowa perform three Igor Stravinsky ballets over the next three years. The first ...
No one, I hope would accuse me of using this column for personal gain. But I think it only fair to acknowledge the fact that I own stock — one share — in the production of “Ulysses in Nighttown.” ...
Igor Stravinsky is most famous for his ballets. His music is linked to the Ballet Russes and choreographer George Balanchine. But not everything he wrote was meant for professional dancers. The ...
Stravinsky caused all sorts of waves with the Ballet Russe, and it's easy to forget that the first one was a good one, pushing its composer straight into the spotlight. The work that did it, the ...