Ballet Related Topics

There is a time for dancing, and there is a time for applause. Sometimes they happen concurrently, but that isn’t ideal. George Balanchine, the founding choreographer of New York City Balletlucky sprite, viewed the theater as a church. “You don’t ap

For Johan Ingersbet, making his choreographic debut at the Paris Opera Ballet is to return to the grit and glamour that he remembers of the Palais Garnier. He danced in the palace of opera and ballet in 1995 (“Or was it 1996?” he asked in a recent i

Olivia Bell walks to the front of the stage where a piano sits. She rests a hand on it and nods to the pianist for the music to start — the first sign in “Signs,” a ballet of mystery and depth. The curtain rises behind her; the dancing begins. Bell