George Balanchine studied at Russia’s Imperial School of Ballet but left in 1925 to join Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in Paris. After Diaghilev’s death, Balanchine co-founded Les Ballets, where ...

Deborah Ory discovered dance photography when she could no longer be a dancer herself. While she was a dance major at the University of Michigan, Ory suffered a career-ending stress fracture in one ...

In today’s dance world, the constraints of time, space, and money too often dictate a company’s selection of repertory. Fortunately, on rare occasions, a ballet may be, like Charles Dickens’s Dr.

I remember, long ago, a dance teacher talking about jumping. “Just go up there and stay there,” she would say, to those trying to overthink the movement. “That’s all.” Documentarian Frederick Wiseman, ...

Donors contribute to buy painting of Tamara Karsavina, co-founder of the London ballet school A rare and valuable portrait of the Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina, Anna Pavlova’s great rival and one ...

In “Ballet 422,” rising choreographer Justin Peck has only two months to mount a major production on one of Manhattan’s most formidable stages, but this appealing wunderkind is so composed that he ...

When did you first learn ballet? Ballet dancer Merritt A. Moore ’10-’11 is a physics concentrator affiliated with Currier House, though she currently lives off campus. In 2008, she took a year off to ...

The Dance Gallery School of Dance Arts will mark its 42nd anniversary with a major production, "Portrait," June 3 and 4 at The Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences. The Dance Gallery will ...

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Credit: Choreographer Diana Movius. Photograph by Brandon Dozier of Cinema Black. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced Diana Movius as the museum’s next choreographer-in-residence ...