Dance, commonly relegated to the background, is the main character in “Carmen.” Choreographer and former ballet dancer Benjamin Millepied pushes the boundaries of dance in his feature ...

Bizet died shortly after the premiere; thus he never saw “Carmen” rise to its place as one of the most familiar and loved operas in the canon. A similar fate awaited Luna Negra Dance Theater ...

The film's score and movements indeed feel like poetry — and Carmen's dance moves serve as the lines of this poem. It's a narrative tool that sets this feature apart from any other musical or ...

Carmen (Barrera) is a young refugee forced to flee her home in the Mexican desert after the brutal murder of her mother (which, based on the trailer, seems to occur mid-dance). Shortly after ...

Carmen, that beguiling Andalusian beauty created by a 19th-century French writer and afterwards made legendary by artists of different nationalities—in opera, dance, and film—continues to ...

with a bigger dash of European contemporary dance. The company dive into Inger’s style with assurance. There are plenty of Carmen ballets: Bizet’s heroine, and his music, are solid box office.

Ballet star Benjamin Millepied directs an opera-free 'Carmen' that can't decide if it's a dance piece, an avant-garde musical or a straight-up melodrama. Yet this flamenco-inspired “Carmen” is ...