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Byline: Roslyn Sulcas John Neumeier has run the Hamburg Ballet for 51 years, putting his stamp on the company and the city. It's among the longest tenures of any director [...]

John Neumeier has run the Hamburg Ballet for 51 years, putting his stamp on the company and the city. It’s among the longest tenures of any director of an arts [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Ferri, the star ballerina who was a principal at American Ballet Theater, will run the large Vienna company and its affiliated school. The ballerina Alessandra Ferri has [...]

The company folded in the 1990s with mounting debts. Can a rebooted troupe thrive at a time when similar British organizations are scaling back? London City Ballet, a company that [...]

The company folded in the 1990s with mounting debts. Can a rebooted troupe thrive at a time when similar British organizations are scaling back? London City Ballet, a company that [...]

Ferri, the star ballerina who was a principal at American Ballet Theater, will run the large Vienna company and its affiliated school. The ballerina Alessandra Ferri has had many dance [...]

The Empire State Building honors New York City Ballet’s 75th anniversary by lighting up in blue, favored by George Balanchine as a backdrop. It’s a numinous blue that suggests the [...]

The program featured three living female choreographers but not much in the way of traditional ballet. The Palais Garnier might have been designed for an extravagant party, its wide stairs [...]

Wayne McGregor’s new ballet, “Untitled, 2023,” gives equal weight to Carmen Herrera’s visual design and Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s music. LONDON — It’s been 17 years since the Royal Ballet named Wayne [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas His exuberant 'Brandenburg,' which returns to City Ballet this month, was made near the end of his life, when he was physically and emotionally frail. Jerome Robbins [...]

His exuberant “Brandenburg,” which returns to City Ballet this month, was made near the end of his life, when he was physically and emotionally frail. Jerome Robbins wasn’t feeling well [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas and Laura Cappelle Martinez, once a member of the company and a former leader of the National Dance Company of Spain, will take up the position in [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Christopher Wheeldon's full-length work for the Royal Ballet succeeds best when not meeting the demands of storytelling. LONDON - Twelve white-robed, veiled brides stand motionless onstage as [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas A former star ballerina with the company, Jaffe will assume the reins after the 30-year tenure of Kevin McKenzie. Susan Jaffe, a former American Ballet Theater ballerina, [...]

On the 50th anniversary of New York City Ballet's Stravinsky Festival, remembering a collaboration for the ages: Balanchine and Stravinsky. One week. Thirty ballets. Twenty of them new. Seven choreographers. [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Rojo, who has given the English National Ballet a new allure, succeeds Helgi Tomasson as just the fifth director to lead the San Francisco company. Tamara Rojo, [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Lefèvre, a former director of the Paris Opera Ballet, is stepping down from running the Cannes Dance Festival. What next? 'I want to dance.' CANNES, France - [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Wayne McGregor's full-length work, a collaboration with Thomas Adès and Tacita Dean, opens at a moment of purgatorial relevance. LONDON - 'Be like a jellyfish,' Wayne McGregor [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas The National Ballet of Canada's newly named artistic director discusses her vision for diversity, accessibility and transparency in dance. In early July, an article in The Toronto [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas The Royal Ballet's program, '21st Century Choreographers,' featured a new work by Kyle Abraham. LONDON - The mood was ebullient on Tuesday night at the Royal Opera [...]

Coppola and Justin Peck talk about how they approached making a film for New York City Ballet's digital spring gala. Though she likes ballet, Sofia Coppola doesn't consider herself an [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas For 'When We Fell,' a filmed dance, the choreographer took cues from a snowy bubble residency - and from Prince's 'Under the Cherry Moon.' Few ballets in [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Hugo Marchand talks about his memoir, 'Danser,' about the intensity of the company and about dancing with Anselm Kiefer paintings. Hugo Marchand, probably the starriest of the [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Renowned as both a star dancer and the director of the Paris Opera Ballet, he was a household name in France from an early age. Patrick Dupond, [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas The history of the Royal Academy of Dance, outlined at an exhibition in London, is synonymous with the history of ballet in Britain. 'It is absolute nonsense [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Even as coronavirus cases rise in France, the Comédie de Clermont is presenting the first major dance premiere since the pandemic began. CLERMONT-FERRAND, France - Onstage, 26 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas She was celebrated for her artistic range, androgynous sexiness and husky-voiced charm. Zizi Jeanmaire, the ballerina, cabaret singer and actress whose gamine haircut, corseted costume and charismatic, [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas LONDON - 'You have to be clear about where the movement is starting and where it's going,' Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui said mildly as a group of Royal [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS Sexual and verbal harassment. A lack of support and care. Incompetence. These are just some of the accusations leveled at the Paris Opera Ballet management and at [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS LONDON -- It has been 25 years since the choreographer Kenneth MacMillan had a fatal heart attack backstage at the Royal Opera House here during a performance [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS A Viennese pastry shop, dancing sweets, a little boy who overindulges and a revolution by the lower pastry orders. An almost unknown Richard Strauss score. Décor and [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS 'Step inside.' Those are the first words spoken in the first moments of William Forsythe's 'Artifact,' the full-length ballet he created in 1984 after taking the reins [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS LONDON -- Artistic director, star ballerina, lobbyist, wrangler, psychologist, spokeswoman. Tamara Rojo, the artistic director of English National Ballet, is one busy woman. Ms. Rojo, 42, a [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS LONDON -- It has been 10 years since the cool white minimalism and electric-current physicality of Wayne McGregor's 'Chroma' first thrilled Royal Ballet audiences here, and led [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS LONDON -- Natalia Osipova and Sergei Polunin are ballet's wunder-couple. She is the former Bolshoi ballerina of the steel-sprung jump and artless impetuosity who has been a [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS LONDON -- The first image is of a man kneeling in a misty white light, his head bowed, his tattoo-covered, muscular torso swaying rhythmically, side to side. [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS PARIS -- New York City Ballet wrapped up a 20-ballet, three-week season at Théëtre du Chëtelet here on Saturday, the company's longest international tour to one city [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS PARIS -- It was possible on Monday night to rush from Justin Peck's 'Entre Chien et Loup,' a new work for the Paris Opera Ballet at the [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS PARIS -- Sheer joy. That's the effect of William Forsythe's new 'Blake Works I' for the Paris Opera Ballet, which had its premiere at the Palais Garnier [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS Pop quiz: New York City Ballet principal Robert Fairchild is dancing to the sounds of Gershwin, in choreography by Christopher Wheeldon. The title of the work contains [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS LONDON -- A new ballet by the British choreographer Christopher Wheeldon is an event, and one with a score by Mark Anthony Turnage even more so. On [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS PARIS -- Cries of 'Merci!' and 'Bravo!' erupted from the audience on Friday night when Benjamin Millepied took a bow along with the dancers of the Paris [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS LONDON -- Yolanda Sonnabend, a theater designer and painter who had a strong influence on the work of the British choreographer and Royal Ballet director Kenneth MacMillan, [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS PARIS -- Four musicians, dressed in black, walk on to the stage and sit with their instruments. Four female dancers, dressed in black, walk on to the [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS Françoise Gilot jumped to her feet and opened one arm with a sweeping gesture. 'I paint with my body!' she exclaimed. 'That's why I appreciate dance.' The [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS LONDON -- What exactly did Carlos Acosta want to do in his new 'Carmen'? Created for his home company, the Royal Ballet, and given its first performance [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS LONDON -- What exactly did Carlos Acosta want to do in his new 'Carmen'? Created for his home company, the Royal Ballet, and given its first performance [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS PARIS -- A new stage with around 30 original commissions each year, featuring artists from the worlds of film, design, theater and visual art. A forum for [...]

Byline: ROSLYN SULCAS AMSTERDAM -- It's worth reflecting on just how strong British ballet choreography is right now. On Wednesday night, the Dutch National Ballet presented new works by David [...]