Three Balanchine Duets* Part 3 *commissioned for the Vail Dance Festival This week, Vail’s International Evenings of Dance performances...

Three Balanchine Duets* Part 2 *commissioned for the Vail Dance Festival This week, Vail’s International Evenings of Dance performances...

Three Balanchine Duets* Part 1 *commissioned for the Vail Dance Festival This week, Vail’s International Evenings of Dance performances...

Congratulations to the dancers of NYCB! Today is the closing performance of the 2022-23 season which makes this the 170th post I’ve made...

Did you know ... Merrill Ashley debuted in Swan Lake with only 3 days of rehearsal over the course of one week. She talks about the...

One of my favorite stories that Suzanne tells is how her partnership with Jacques began before she met him. You can listen to her tell it...

On the opening night of Fancy Free: “[Harold] Lang’s bravura solo, in which he vaulted on and off the bar and ended one air turn in a...

Edward Villella as Prince Siegfried in Balanchine's Swan Lake. Photos by Martha Swope, 1959. New York Public Library

“Her Odette manages to be both a ballerina’s holiday and a poetic and appealing work of art. In the quality of her movement she has...

It's a three show day at the DHKT so I'll present you with 3 posts featuring Patricia McBride as Odette. Get ready because the next 2...

"Miss Kent's performance was certainly one of the highlights of the evening. It is poetic in the extreme and wonderfully musical. Its...

"Tchaikovsky enjoyed the rehearsals for Swan Lake which began at the Bolshoi. He wrote to his brother, 'If you only knew how funny it is...

When Tanaquil LeClercq debuted as Odette in Swan Lake at 22 years old, the article in the Times the next day was titled: "Dancer...

Heading into a week of Balanchine's Swan Lake! On Diana Adams: “Her Odette is every inch the enchanted princess, imbued with a tender...

Baryshnikov dancing the 2nd solo in Robbins’ Fancy Free. Photo by Martha Swope, 1979 Video from “Dance in America” dir. Emile Ardolino, 1981

In 1962, NYCB went on tour to the Soviet Union. Allegra performed Agon with Arthur Mitchell. She wrote: “I was filling in for Diana Adams...

Diana Adams on the original rehearsals for Agon: "Balanchine rehearsals whip you into a frenzy. Keeping up with him was so difficult. I...

The most unreal photos you've ever seen of Afternoon of a Faun. (In my opinion...) These photos began as 1-inch by 1-inch proofs with red...

Lourdes Lopez and Merrill Ashley in Concerto Barocco. Photo by Steven Caras, mid 1980s. (left) Heather Watts (R) & Sean Lavery. Photo by...

"Kent has always been an enigma. […] She has a mystery, an allure that is rare in American ballerinas. […] Every step she takes on stage,...