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The article announces that Agustín Arteaga was appointed as director of Dallas Museum of Art, previews the musical "Sunday in the Park with George," starring Jake Gyllenhaal in New York in October 2016, and discusses the Totally Thames festival in River Thames in England in September 2016.

The article reviews the performance of Richard Alston Dance Company choreographed by Richard Alston at Marlowe Theater in Canterbury, England on February 2014.

LONDON -- It all seemed like a mad idea: seven choreographers, three ballets. But Monica Mason's decision for her final program as director of the Royal Ballet was to assemble the choreographers who have been central to the company's creativity during her decade-long tenure. For ''Metamorphosis Titian 2012'' she put them together with well-known contemporary composers and artists -- an ambitiously Diaghilevian project that is a collaboration with Britain's National Gallery and part of the cultural Olympiad. The theme was Titian's three paintings based on the myth of Diana and Actaeon (''Diana and Actaeon,'' ''Diana and Callisto'' and ''The Death of Actaeon,'' all on display in an accompanying exhibition at the National Gallery) and recounted by Ovid in ''Metamorphoses'': the hunter Actaeon, chancing upon the chaste Diana bathing naked with her nymphs, is transformed by the vengeful moon goddess into a stag, then killed by his own hounds. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LONDON -- A man implacably shovels earth from what appears to be a cliff high above the stage; a woman is pelted with tomatoes, screaming, ''More! In my face!''; men dash onto the stage with fierce energy, throwing themselves into bounding, buckling solos; a glamorous redhead applies her makeup, impervious to the water being poured on her head; a chorus line of dancers snakes across the stage, smiling broadly at the audience. These were some of the images from ''World Cities,'' the five-week run of 10 works by the German choreographer Pina Bausch, performed by her company, Tanztheater Wuppertal, at Sadler's Wells and the Barbican Theater here. (The run ended this week.) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHEN Wayne McGregor -- contemporary-dance creator and new-technology obsessive -- became resident choreographer of the Royal Ballet in London in 2006, he could scarcely have imagined that just six years later he would be one of the most sought after choreographers in the ballet world. Mr. McGregor ran his own troupe, Random Dance, and his restless, curious spirit seemed little suited to the strict formal constraints and often-conservative world of classical dance. But since his startling, critically acclaimed 2006 ''Chroma'' -- the ballet that led to his appointment at the Royal -- companies have clamored for his kinetically thrilling pieces that take ballet and ballet dancers to new and strange terrain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON -- That four productions of ''The Nutcracker'' have been running here over the holiday period may be little cause for surprise in the United States, where ''Nutcracker'' ubiquity is entirely accepted. But even as recently as last year, Britain, like the rest of Europe, didn't seem to have succumbed to the dictate that ''The Nutcracker'' must dominate all dance stages from December to January. The ballet du mois of the 2010 Christmas season was ''Cinderella,'' performed by no fewer than four major companies around the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON -- A small girl and boy play with their toys before falling asleep, and when they have done so, the toys come to life. Adventures ensue as Evil is battled, with Good duly prevailing and the toys returning to their former inert state. This is not, as you might think, ''Toy Story 17,'' but a new children's show at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio Theater that boasts an almost-forgotten score by none other than Kurt Weill. When he was 22 Weill wrote ''Die Zaubernacht'' (''Magical Night'') as a children's pantomime in 1922, six years before his collaboration with Bertolt Brecht on ''The Threepenny Opera'' brought him an international reputation. It was Weill's first work to be performed onstage, and it was a success at its premiere in Berlin, traveling to New York in 1925 before disappearing into obscurity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON IT is a little after 7 p.m., and Liam Scarlett, a Royal Ballet corps dancer and the new choreographic wonder boy of British ballet, clad in black jeans and a T-shirt, is courteously escorting a visitor through the backstage corridors of the Royal Opera House here. As the sounds of the orchestra warming up for the evening performance of ''The Sleeping Beauty'' play through the loudspeakers, Mr. Scarlett casually mentions he's in the show. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LONDON -- The Victorian motion-study photographs of Eadweard J. Muybridge feel oddly ubiquitous right now. They're featured in the Degas show at the Royal Academy here, in the Danser Sa Vie exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris, and they are a central theme in the new piece ''Undance'' by Wayne McGregor, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Mark Wallinger that completed a too-brief run at Sadler's Wells on Saturday. ''Undance'' is a surprise. Mr. McGregor's dances -- both for his own company, Random Dance, and for the Royal Ballet, where he is resident choreographer -- are usually characterized by complexity. For better or for worse, there is usually a great deal going on, both physically and conceptually; this intellectual and sensory overload can be thrilling or frustrating, or both at the same time. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

London THE Bolshoi Ballet was dancing spectacularly at the Royal Opera House one evening last month, and the audience applauded with fervor. But as the crowd rushed off to down Champagne at intermission, the dance cognoscenti's animated conversations concerned another Russian troupe entirely. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers arts news briefs as of February 28, 2015 on topics such as an award received by baritone Quinn Kelsey, a new arts space to be opened by British choreographer Wayne McGregor in London, England, and extension of the reality television show "Keeping up With the Kardashians."