Shanghai Ballet, one of China's major classical dance companies, visits Houston for the first time Tuesday. It will perform "The Butterfly Lovers," a tragic love story that involves a disguised ...

Beijing Dance Academy’s new version of “The Butterfly Lovers,” running through Sunday at the Ahmanson Theatre, provides a solution. Ushering in the Year of the Tiger also portends romance!

Anyone who had associated the Shanghai Ballet with "The White-Haired Girl," that propagandistic bore of the 1970s, was in for a gratifying surprise Friday evening when the company made its ...

Hong Kong Ballet dancers perform during The Butterfly Lovers, one of China's four great folktales which is often referred to as the Chinese version of Romeo and Juliet.

Northern Ballet's Madame Butterfly dances into the Lyceum Theatre from 18 - 22 September 2012. Madame Butterfly is directed and choreographed by the Company's Artistic Director, David Nixon OBE ...

The Houston Ballet will perform “Madame Butterfly,” choreographed by Stanton Welch, at 8 p.m. May 3 at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Pictured are dancers James Gotesky and Amy Fote.