'Serenade" was the first ballet George Balanchine choreographed in America, whereby he planted the seeds for the next 50 fertile years during which he reshaped classical ballet, with its French, ...

Ballet is a tough game. So many dancers, so few companies. Dancing, despite the apparent ease and grace on the stage, is hard; finding a place to dance can be harder. Emily Speed, 27, hopscotched ...

Let us raise a toast to George Balanchine’s “Serenade,” which will turn 80 a month from now. It is the ballet that launched the extraordinary American phase of the choreographer’s career, and, more ...

In 1934, a few months after his arrival in New York, George Balanchine choreographed “Serenade.” It was his first ballet for American dancers, a seminal work that marked the way he was to reshape and ...

4 A 2025 Guide To New York City’s Under-the-Radar Holiday Highlights The Joyce Theater Foundation presented the long-awaited Lincoln Center debut of the internationally lauded Miami City Ballet under ...

1 Review Roundup: MAYBE HAPPY ENDING, Starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shen. Nashville Ballet presents a captivating double feature of Dracula and Serenade at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center ...

Garrett Ammon must know it takes chutzpah to choreograph Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade for Strings in C Major,” the same music George Balanchine used for the first ballet he created in America, in 1934.

Maleficent isn’t the only witch in town. Madge, the evildoer in August Bournonville’s 1836 Romantic ballet “La Sylphide” also has been creating misery (and laughs). As devilishly portrayed by Los ...

Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite could never have known, when her astounding new ballet Angels’ Atlas premiered on Feb. 29, 2020, that the world was about to be shuttered by a global pandemic.

“But first, a school.” Words mythically attributed to Georgiy Balanchivadze — George Balanchine — upon coming to the United States to build what would become an American empire of ballet. Some think ...