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 ...

"Benjamin wanted Carmen to not be tragic ... That was hard for me." This hypnotic film features more dance than song — Millepied is, after all, a choreographer — as well as moments of magical ...

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 ...

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 ...

If it was fear of low-life women and racial contamination that made her provocative in the late 19th century, that hardly explains the persistence of Carmen into the 21st, nor the fact that two ...

José watches from the back, ignored. He and Carmen have almost nothing in common – until they dance together in twisty, expressionist movement that no one else shares. They flay themselves open ...