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The festival, the final one for its longtime director, started with a bravura work by Wayne McGregor that was at once otherworldly and deeply human. The abyss, the womb, the [...]

Benjamin Millepied and Nico Muhly's evening of minimally accessorized dance and contemporary music feels right at home at the Philharmonie in Paris. The choreographer Benjamin Millepied is a protean figure. [...]

At La Scala, Ratmansky's original choreography makes details and nuances of the story pop, as if a carapace of formulaic interpretation has been cracked open. ''Coppelia'' is the last, exuberant [...]

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 [...]

Her new work for the Royal Ballet, ''Secret Things,'' is both pedestrian and poetic, a portal into the practices and collective memories of ballet. LONDON -- ''Secret Things'' is the [...]

Crystal Pite's ''Light of Passage'' at the Royal Ballet takes on big issues: refugees, life and death. At Ballet Black, Gregory Maqoma shines. LONDON -- A chiaroscuro vision of blacks [...]

Benjamin Millepied's L.A. Dance Project presents a ''Romeo and Juliet'' with same-sex lovers. And at Paris Opera Ballet, Alan Lucien Oyen goes Bauschian. PARIS -- Love, in its first blazing [...]

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 the curtain rises [...]

Based on the 1830 novel by Stendhal, Pierre Lacotte's new production for the Paris Opera Ballet is an old-fashioned costume drama. PARIS -- ''The Red and the Black,'' Pierre Lacotte's [...]

Our recommendations for dance to stream online, whether from your couch or your yoga mat. Watching: Ephrat Asherie Dance, 'Odeon' Sometimes you see a snippet of a dance and wish [...]

At Ballet National de Marseille, a varied night of dances by Lucinda Childs, Tânia Carvalho, Lasseindra Ninja and Oona Doherty. MARSEILLE, France -- The performance at the La Criée theater [...]

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 [...]

PARIS -- A beautiful water sprite falls in love with a mortal man, but that love leads to her death. Spirits watch humans make a mess of things, occasionally intervening [...]

PARIS -- ''The Nutcracker'' isn't obligatory Christmas fare at the Paris Opera Ballet; it hasn't been performed here for five years. But this year, Rudolf Nureyev's production of the ballet [...]

PARIS -- ''The Nutcracker'' isn't obligatory Christmas fare at the Paris Opera Ballet; it hasn't been performed here for five years. But this year, Rudolf Nureyev's production of the ballet [...]

MUNICH -- Alexei Ratmansky's restaging of Marius Petipa's ''Paquita'' for the Bayerisches Staatsballett is a labor of love and a homage to the master. ''We do not make dances like [...]

PARIS -- This city has been important to William Forsythe. It was here, in 1987, that his ''In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated'' had its premiere at the Paris Opera Ballet, [...]

LONDON -- Britain is awash in World War I centenary commemorations and poppy mania. Ballet companies here haven't lagged behind. Both English National Ballet and the Birmingham Royal Ballet have [...]

DRESDEN, Germany -- Alexei Ratmansky's new ''Tanzsuite,'' created in June for the Semperoper Ballett here, is breathtakingly inventive, formally rigorous and gorgeously dancey. From the opening moments, as a bank [...]

LONDON -- Israel Galvßn is the maverick of the flamenco world, a brilliantly talented, ground-breaking artist who combines the almost tragic seriousness of his art with an absurdist sense of [...]

LONDON -- Frederick Ashton's ballets aren't danced enough and they aren't danced properly. A younger generation isn't learning from the great dancers who originated the roles and great works are [...]

PARIS -- The choreographer William Forsythe is ubiquitous here this fall. He is the focus of this year's Festival d'Automne, with five companies presenting his work around the city over [...]

LONDON -- Frederick Ashton's ballets aren't danced enough and they aren't danced properly. A younger generation isn't learning from the great dancers who originated the roles and great works are [...]

LONDON -- Is Alexei Ratmansky's ''Concerto DSCH'' the best ballet to date of the 21st century? It's an impossible question to answer, but on Monday night, as danced by the [...]

LONDON -- Is Alexei Ratmansky's ''Concerto DSCH'' the best ballet to date of the 21st century? It's an impossible question to answer, but on Monday night, as danced by the [...]

LONDON -- Russia's two great ballet companies have been on the road of late. The Bolshoi, based in Moscow, just ended a two-week tour of New York, and the Mariinsky [...]

LONDON -- Russia's two great ballet companies have been on the road of late. The Bolshoi, based in Moscow, just ended a two-week tour of New York, and the Mariinsky [...]

PARIS -- ''Are you waiting in the line?'' I asked a woman as people thronged the ticket desk at the Palais Garnier here, just before the farewell performance of Nicolas [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDPARIS -- There's never a busier time for dance in France than the end of June and early July, with the Paris Opera Ballet at the Palais Garnier, the [...]

AMSTERDAM -- When a ballet offers you video on stage, a stark set and imaginative lighting, you probably have the strong impression that you are seeing an innovative work. When [...]

AMSTERDAM -- When a ballet offers you video on stage, a stark set and imaginative lighting, you probably have the strong impression that you are seeing an innovative work. When [...]

LONDON -- As the flowers rained down around her this past weekend, the ballerina Daria Klimentova bent down and swiftly untied her point shoes. Then, like a Wimbledon winner flinging [...]

BIRMINGHAM, England -- Frederick Ashton, now regarded as one of the greatest choreographers of the 20th century, created ''Faade'' in 1931 when he was just 26, and still a choreographic [...]

LONDON -- Four hundred slim poles glimmering with silvery sparkles gradually appear as the curtain rises, very slowly, on an abstract forest. Very slowly, human shapes become apparent and a [...]

WUPPERTAL, Germany -- The stage is full of enormous cacti. A couple in head-to-toe leopard-skin outfits, cat-ears perched on their heads, wander around with beatific, fixed smiles. Punk-rock music pounds. [...]