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Dr. Wendy Ziecheck has found a new specialty: helping dancers to work together safely. ''Testing was the key to making this happen,'' she says. Bubble, part of the growing coronavirus [...]

An early highlight in Montpellier was Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's solo ''Goldberg Variations,'' which seems to ask: What is it to dance? What do our bodies know? MONTPELLIER, France -- [...]

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 [...]

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 dancers. In the [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas LONDON - Dancer, choreographer, ex-heroin addict, prodigal son, perfectionist, art-world darling, club-world star: Michael Clark was for a long time the enfant terrible of British dance. Today [...]

LONDON -- Dancer, choreographer, ex-heroin addict, prodigal son, perfectionist, art-world darling, club-world star: Michael Clark was for a long time the enfant terrible of British dance. Today he is 58 [...]

David Hallberg is not on a plane. He is not dashing between Moscow and Milan, London and Sydney, readjusting to time zones, settling into rented apartments, reconnecting with favorite partners [...]

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, [...]

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, erotic performance made [...]

What's online: Robert Garland's ''Return,'' Justin Peck in Miami, Wayne McGregor in London and a class from the L.A. Dance Project. Watch: Dance Theater of Harlem Dance Theater of Harlem [...]

The hit espionage show returns, just like last season, with the same lead cast but a new lead writer. Can the series once again replicate its unique brand of female-driven [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas An exhibition in London examines how expecting mothers have been portrayed from the Middle Ages to to the digital era. Here are some of the highlights. LONDON [...]

The star American dancer, who has a long history with the Australian troupe, will begin his new job in 2021. David Hallberg, the American Ballet Theater principal, will be the [...]

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Spike Lee are among the artists who will pair with a protégé in the program. CAPE TOWN -- In the room where it happened (the Baxter Theater [...]

The former artistic director has chosen not to pursue being reinstated at Tanztheater Wuppertal. Adolphe Binder, who was dismissed as director of Tanztheater Wuppertal in July 2018 and has been [...]

Matthew Bourne's ''Swan Lake'' helped inspire a generation of male dancers to put on ballet slippers. In ''Swan Lake,'' an evil magician transforms a beautiful princess into a graceful swan, [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake' helped inspire a generation of male dancers to put on ballet slippers. In 'Swan Lake,' an evil magician transforms a beautiful princess into [...]

At New York City Ballet, the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky is branching out with an idiosyncratic score by the experimental composer Peter Ablinger. Alexei Ratmansky walked into the studio and got [...]

Bausch's pivotal 1977 work ''Bluebeard,'' with its relentless gender battles and powerful drama, returns to the stage after a long gap. WUPPERTAL, Germany -- The dancers lay in darkness on [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Bausch's pivotal 1977 work 'Bluebeard,' with its relentless gender battles and powerful drama, returns to the stage after a long gap. WUPPERTAL, Germany - The dancers lay [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas The 'Masterpiece' series, based on Austen's uncompleted final novel, features many of the author's hallmarks, plus skinny-dipping. BRISTOL, England - Three hundred candles reflecting off gold walls [...]

The ''Masterpiece'' series, based on Austen's uncompleted final novel, features many of the author's hallmarks, plus skinny-dipping. BRISTOL, England -- Three hundred candles reflecting off gold walls cast a rich, [...]

MOULINS, France -- Soft jersey bathing suits, molded on the body, fitted pink cloche caps framing the face. These were Coco Chanel's simple yet revolutionary designs for the Ballets Russes's [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas MOULINS, France - Soft jersey bathing suits, molded on the body, fitted pink cloche caps framing the face. These were Coco Chanel's simple yet revolutionary designs for [...]

An exhibition in St. Petersburg, Russia, takes a fresh look at two painters whose works were once dismissed as instruments of state control. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- Figures stare boldly [...]

In her first onscreen role in 27 years, the actor and former member of Parliament plays a woman with dementia in the new BBC film ''Elizabeth Is Missing.'' LONDON -- [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas A new TV adaptation by Steven Knight ('Peaky Blinders') presents a portrait of the miser as a (relatively) young man. BOVINGDON, England - 'I've never done a [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas In her first onscreen role in 27 years, the actor and former member of Parliament plays a woman with dementia in the new BBC film 'Elizabeth Is [...]

A new TV adaptation by Steven Knight (''Peaky Blinders'') presents a portrait of the miser as a (relatively) young man. BOVINGDON, England -- ''I've never done a mouse decapitation before,'' [...]

More than 20 countries have sent over 100 productions, including large-scale works by some of the hottest directors. So why have so few heard of the event? ST. PETERSBURG, Russia [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas More than 20 countries have sent over 100 productions, including large-scale works by some of the hottest directors. So why have so few heard of the event? [...]

Alexei Ratmansky's enthralling reconstruction pays attention to dramatic detail and to every nuance of choreographic phrasing. MOSCOW -- The Bolshoi Ballet is not short of ''Giselle'' productions. Until very recently [...]

The Netflix period drama has replaced its principal cast for Season 3, and now stars Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II. SALISBURY, England -- The corgis just wouldn't behave. Mid-take, [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas The Netflix period drama has replaced its principal cast for Season 3, and now stars Olivia Colman as Queen Elizabeth II. SALISBURY, England - The corgis just [...]

Tobias Menzies has been a prolific but not exactly famous actor for years, but starring on ''The Crown'' might dramatically boost his profile. He's trying not to think about it. [...]

Bella Lewitzky's ''Kinaesonata'' from 1970 is nothing short of a revelation. LOS ANGELES -- Bella Lewitzky was a fervently Californian choreographer, a force-of-nature creator who had no particular desire to [...]

After years in development, this adaptation of Philip Pullman's best-selling trilogy arrives as HBO's next fantasy epic. CARDIFF, Wales -- Lin-Manuel Miranda sat patiently in a shabby, capacious hot-air balloon, [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Audiences seem to love this uneven piece, which can be lyrical in places and bemusing in others. PARIS - 'Body and Soul,' Crystal Pite's new full-length work [...]

Audiences seem to love this uneven piece, which can be lyrical in places and bemusing in others. PARIS -- ''Body and Soul,'' Crystal Pite's new full-length work for the Paris [...]

In Michael Keegan-Dolan's reimagining at the Next Wave Festival, there are no tutus, Tchaikovsky or castles. DUBLIN -- A man, wearing a black hoodie, hunched over a cigarette, stares blankly [...]

A commission for the Royal Ballet, ''Everyone Keeps Me'' creates a strange, resonantly poetic world. LONDON -- Seven dancers, their backs to the audience, heads turned in profile, move on [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Jérôme Bel has decided, for ecological reasons, not to work in any way that involves a plane ride. That can make things difficult. PARIS - 'Can you [...]

Jérôme Bel has decided, for ecological reasons, not to work in any way that involves a plane ride. That can make things difficult. PARIS -- ''Can you see me? Can [...]

PARIS -- The workmen were everywhere. Backstage and onstage, they were hammering, banging, gluing, carrying, laying tarpaulin, shimmying up ladders and shouting, ''Attention!'' In the auditorium, a team checked the [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas At Sadler's Wells in London, the choreographer has reimagined Shakespeare's tragedy for a resonant tale of trauma and mental illness. LONDON - A bright red curtain flutters [...]

LONDON -- A bright red curtain flutters down. Prokofiev's ominous chords thunder. The blood-drenched lovers lie entwined on a tombstone. Matthew Bourne shows us the end of the story at [...]

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A lunchtime bout of torrential rain, lightning and thunder couldn't keep a crowd of intrepid souls from lining up at Liberty Plaza here on Saturday. They simply [...]

MANCHESTER, England -- ''This is our help,'' Trajal Harrell said, introducing each of the 10 dancers in his ensemble at the start of his new ''Maggie the Cat'' at the [...]