To dance it as well as to watch it, “Agon” is as exacting and beautiful as any 28 minutes of ballet could possibly be. It is considered by many to be the masterwork by the master of 20th-century ...

George Balanchine choreographed ballets for some of the greatest international stars but also for unknowns who suddenly looked like stars when he exalted and extended the best/deepest/most individual ...

The Music Center will partner with Los Angeles Ballet to present that company's productions of Agon and Rubies on Saturday evening July 6 at 7:30 pm, free to the public. Both have music by Igor ...

The dance critic Edwin Denby wrote that after an early performance of George Balanchine's 1957 Agon, the audience that streamed into the lobby was wonderstruck, "their eyes bright as if the piece had ...

VAIL ” George Balanchine’s “Square Dance” is not your ordinary ballet. Like the name suggests, it borrows style from American country dance. As the dancers go round and round, a band on stage plays ...

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New York City Ballet principal dancer Maria KowroskiBrian Zak Wine may not be the only thing that improves with age. New York City Ballet’s Maria Kowroski says dancing can too. On Wednesday, she’ll ...

(This review is by American-Statesman freelance writer Claire Christine Spera.) Ballet Austin’s productions of “Agon” and “The Firebird” at the Long Center made for an evening of contrasts threaded ...

This review has been updated. See below for details. Los Angeles Ballet’s Balanchine Festival continues with three stirring modern masterworks, two of which highlight the brilliant outputs of double ...

This is an inspired, and brilliantly played, grouping of three ballet scores that Stravinsky wrote in response to commissions from New York. The synopses might be arcane, but the music, if far removed ...