Ballet is a silent art form. It relies on pantomime or movement alone to tell a story or convey emotion. Dancers do not speak, but rather become the music. This is the essence of ballet as conceived ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Isabella DeVivo, left, and Wona Park in Balanchine's "Serenade." (Lindsay Thomas) Seventeen women in tulle stand in moonlight, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "My goal," said Lincoln Jones, "is to create an experience today that has the depth of [the art of the past] but also the ...

Seventeen women in tulle stand in moonlight, right arms raised, hands flexed to the sky as Tchaikovsky's chords swell. The opening of George Balanchine's "Serenade," the centerpiece of San Francisco ...

Boston Ballet will present George Balanchine’s Jewels, running November 6–16, 2025, at the Citizens Opera House. Returning to Boston for the first time since 2014, the ballet unites three distinct ...

Long before he died in 1983, George Balanchine had established himself as the 20th-century’s most important ballet choreographer. How a poor boy who was born in pre-revolutionary Russia and fled the ...

“I’m a tyrant,” claims ballet icon Suzanne Farrell, while coaching dancers of Boston Ballet recently at the company’s rehearsal space in the South End. But she says it with a warm smile, a soft voice, ...

With new books and a podcast taking another look at the legacy of George Balanchine and the culture of ballet, where does a modern ballerina stand? By Gia Kourlas Ballet requires — no, demands — ...

New York City Ballet opened its six-week winter season Tuesday with “Apollo” (1928), a ballet about the creation of art. Choreographed by George Balanchine to a classic score by Igor Stravinsky, ...

A trio of dances taking influence from Stravinsky, tap and William Blake’s poetry combine with powerful performances exuding showmanship ...