American Liberty Ballet, a company based in NY and NJ, adds a fresh twist to a beloved classic with The Dying of Swan Lake*, coming to Manhattan this March. ALB reframes the iconic Swan story as a ...

Swan Lake is more than just Black Swan — it’s one of the most legendary productions of all time. First staged in 1895 with music by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, this ...

Pantages Theatre was the place to be Saturday night for an assortment of classic ballet snippets and modern ballet hits. World Ballet Festival had descended on downtown Minneapolis with its “Ballet ...

Beautiful clarinet music filled the Citizens Opera House on opening night of Boston Ballet’s “Swan Lake,” welcoming patrons back to the story just three years after the ballet was last performed by ...

NEW YORK – Rehearsing “Swan Lake” a few weeks ago in a sweaty studio, trying to iron out some last-minute kinks, ballerina Unity Phelan stopped just before launching into the famed 32 fouettés — those ...

When you think about "Swan Lake," shimmering costumes and fluttering choreography might come to mind. But how much do you really know about this dramatic ballet? With the Grand Kyiv Ballet bringing ...

Kent Stowell's Swan Lake, which runs at McCall Hall through Feb 11, is a big, lush, multicultural dance party driven by a heartbreaking romance that ballet directors have wisely and rightfully shaped ...

“Swan Lake” premiered in 1877 with a libretto of uncertain authorship, a score by neophyte ballet composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and choreography, now lost, by the now forgotten Julius Reisinger.

If you ask Septime Webre what’s so special about “Swan Lake”, he’ll tell you it’s the Tchaikovsky score, the themes and fantastical storyline and the classic choreography. “The music sweeps us into a ...

Somewhere over the last 145 years, there was a collective, pop-cultural agreement that Swan Lake is ballet. The Nutcracker is ballet, too, but it’s Christmas ballet and is restrained by strict ...

Anna Pavlova was recorded dancing The Dying Swan in a 1925 silent film, to which sound is often added. The short ballet has influenced interpretations of Odette in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, ...