Today’s subject Peter Anastos has been living his theatre life as one of the co-Founders of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. The all- male dance troupe has been parodying the classics of ballet ...

Since 1964, when it became the second building constructed on the new Lincoln Center campus, the New York State Theater (known since November 2008 as the David H. Koch Theater) has been home to the ...

Running With Théoden is a special Observer interview series featuring runs with influential Charlotteans. This week: Dancer Remi Okamoto.

Emily Coates with Derek Lucci. Photo courtesy of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Observer spoke with Coates to discuss her work in process, some favorite archival discoveries and Balanchine’s ...

While most professional dancers begin training at age seven or eight, Luiz Silva had never heard of ballet until age 15. Silva's meteoric journey from his first dance class to the ranks of the ...

CounterPointe was born in 2012 from a desire to support ballet by women dancemakers working with the pointe shoe. “We wanted to make it a little bit easier for women to get their work seen and ...

In theater, “break a leg” is a phrase used to wish a performer luck. But for ballet dancers, it isn’t simply an expression but an occupational reality. The intense physical demands of ballet put ...

After he said “no one cares” about their art forms.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Stephen Nakagawa, a former dancer with the Washington Ballet, wrote a letter to the leader of the arts center complaining about “radical leftist ...

There are a million of them. I picked a few that I thought would be of interest to both dance fans and non dance fans alike. The most interesting is the reconstruction of the original SLEEPING BEAUTY ...