More than just a show about ballet, this exhibition explores dance in New York and L.A. and Chicago, culture and counterculture and how art can preserve history and shape the future.

Roland Petit dominated French dance for over 60 years and with his wife Renée (Zizi) Jeanmaire formed one of France's most glamorous couples. Ever ready to break ballet conventions, he mixed the ...

French choreographer and dancer Roland Petit died Sunday in Geneva at age 87. French cultural minister Frédéric Mitterand called Petit "one of the major choreographers of the 20th century." AFP - ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Years ago, Roland Petit said to me: “I must come back to London.” It was where he made his first tour in 1946, ...

ROLAND Petit, France's major creative figure in postwar ballet and probably the favourite choreographer of the world's greatest ballerinas, has died of leukaemia in Geneva, aged 87. French ...

Choreographer Roland Petit, whose creations dazzled audiences from Paris to Hollywood and inspired dancers, writers and designers died in Geneva on Sunday. He was 87. Petit first worked in Hollywood ...

Roland Petit (13 January 1924 – 10 July 2011) was a French ballet company director, choreographer and dancer. He trained at the Paris Opera Ballet school, and became well known for his creative ...

Roland Petit, the choreographer who died on July 10 aged 87, was France's major creative figure in post-war ballet, responsible for defining a new French chic and erotic frankness in dance, typified ...

French choreographer and dancer Roland Petit has died in Geneva at the age of 87, the Paris Opera Ballet has said. Petit helped set up dance company Les Ballets des Champs-Elysees in 1945 and is ...