With the magical glow of a spotlight, grandiose sets and geometrically perfect choreography, the National Ballet of China’s “Chinese New Year (A Ballet In Two Acts)” performance transformed the...

Dancers with The Washington Ballet returned to the stage last week for their first indoor live performance since February 2020.   The Washington Ballet kicked off the 2021-22 season with...

Many contemporary audiences find classical ballet culture alienating, but the Mariinsky Ballet’s rendition of “Paquita” at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts pushed the form of dance...

It seems unlikely that an art established on 17th century royal French etiquette and modern 20th century abstractions can progress into the 21st century. Yet, in “Works by Balanchine, Martins &...

The Mariinsky Ballet finally arrived on the East Coast of the United States 118 years after its initial apparition in a revival of “Raymonda,” a classical piece of the Russian ballet repertoire,...