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Ballet

Don’t Miss: Rhythm and Ritual in Dada Masilo’s ‘The Sacrifice’

If you can see only one dance performance in what’s left of spring, let this be it.
By Caedra Scott-Flaherty
A group of dancers in streetwear and sneakers strike poses while a male dancer dips a female dancer in center

Contemporary Ballet Is Alive and Well at NYCB

"21st Century Choreography II" offers an accessible mix of new and recent work.
By Caedra Scott-Flaherty

What to Wear to the Ballet

Enjoy the chance to take in a ballet performance and get creative with your ensemble. 
By Aemilia Madden

Has Going to See Ballet Suddenly Become Hip?

By Charlotte Barnett

On Pointe: The 12 Pieces You Need To Pull off the Balletcore Trend

By Aemilia Madden

‘Swan Lake’ Is Floating Across the Nation With Various Productions

By Charlotte Barnett

How Strength Training Helped Dancer Elisa Clark Return to the Stage

By Charlotte Barnett

Spring Preview: Eight Opera and Dance Performances This Spring in NYC

By David Cote

The Boys at the Barre: Ballet Reckons with Gender Equity and Power

By Emilie Murphy

Ashton Edwards Talks Gender, Pointe Training, and Ballet’s Future

By Charlotte Barnett
Miami City Ballet dancers—Patricia Delgado in pink—in Balanchine's Symphony in Three Movements.

Dancers Say It’s Time to Talk About Ballet Companies That Body-Shame

By Charlotte Barnett

Brandon Stirling Baker Is the Lighting Designer Dance’s Brightest Stars All Want to Work With

By Charlotte Barnett

Dance in 2018: The Year in Review

By Robert Gottlieb

The Good the Bad and the Dubious Premieres of ABT’s Fall Season

By Robert Gottlieb
A shot from the documentary Lucinda Childs, Great Fugue by Beethoven,

5 New Dance Documentaries Flip the Boring Ballet Stereotype

By Angelica Frey

City Ballet’s Final Week a Mixed Blessing

By Robert Gottlieb

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Gala With Mega-Bloggers at Lincoln Center

By Merin Curotto
American Ballet Theater performing Don Quixote at the Metropolitan Opera House on May 16, 2017.

Small Donations Make or Break Nonprofit Performing Arts Organizations

By Melissa Rosko
Layla and Majnun.

Dying for Art in ‘The Red Shoes’; Dying for Love in ‘Layla and Majnun’

By Robert Gottlieb
Jaws.

5 Celebrity-Favorite Fitness Instructors You Can Work Out With, Too

By Meredith Lepore
Ashley Shaw in her starring role as Victoria Page in Bourne's The Red Shoes.

In Ballet About a Ballet, ‘The Red Shoes’ Fails to Deliver Impeccable Dancing

By Emily Bicks
Daniil Simkin, Rotunda Project, The Guggenheim, Works and Process.

A Motion Capture Ballet Is Coming to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Rotunda

By Alanna Martinez
Misty Copeland attends the American Ballet Theatre Spring Gala at The Metropolitan Opera House on May 1

Misty Copeland is the New Face of Estée Lauder’s Modern Muse Fragrance

By Sarah Fortinsky
Diamonds with Alyona Kovalyova and Jacopo Tissi.

‘Jewels’: Three Ballets, Three Companies and a Glorious Debut

By Robert Gottlieb
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