Photo by Sasha, 1926 Today we open a two week run of Swan Lake at NYCB. Because my @immortaliconsofdance episode this week focuses on...

In the late 1930s, Balanchine had extra money from his work on Broadway and in Hollywood and used it to commission Paul Hindemith to...

Allegra Kent was 11 years old when she first experienced an evening at the ballet (1948). The third ballet on the program was La...

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

The original Sleepwalker in La Sonnambula, Alexandra Danilova, recalled learning this ballet in her autobiography Choura: “I was the...

La Sonnambula was originally titled Night Shadow and was created by Balanchine for Alexandra Danilova and Frederic Franklin who were then...