At its best, ballet is beauty, music for the eyes. It's also a grand deception. Beneath the grace and harmony are hours of sweat, pain and failure. Fernanda Castillo, a 24-year-old student who has ...

Pirouettes and arabesques perfectly executed, dozens of dancers in a colorful assemblage of sweat pants and leotards perform an exhaustive routine at rehearsals in downtown Montevideo. Rehearsals at ...

One of the Bay Area's most enduring holiday traditions is also one of its most arduous. The San Francisco Ballet's 21st annual performance of Helgi Tomasson's "Nutcracker" has been enchanting ...

More bodice-ripping journey of the soul than straightforward monster-driven horror, Cape Town City Ballet’s new production is made to stretch the imagination as much as it’s certain to entertain – and ...

Gothic transformations, dark impulses, and passionate choreography come together in “Jekyll & Hyde,” the latest production from Colorado Ballet. The ballet, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Gothic ...

There’s little new in this 2026 program. Instead, the Joffrey has dug up a range of works showcasing 20th century innovation and the porous kinship between ballet and modern dance during that ...

Cinderella loses her shoe and gains a husband. We’re familiar with the most widely known version of the classic fairy tale, written in 1697 by Frenchman Charles Perrault, though the story stretches ...