A new podcast on the subject features interviews with dancers, living and deceased, who learned from the likes of Sergei Diaghilev and one of the star ballerinas of his Ballets Russes, Lydia Lopokova.

Linda Jackson chats with Karen Gibbons and Anna Orzulak of Fort Wayne Ballet to discuss their “Ballet Russe Reimagined” series. To learn more about the show or to purchase tickets, visit Ballet Russe ...

For over 120 years, avant-garde skincare brand Helena Rubinstein has offered women not only the means to achieve beauty, but be empowered by it. Madame Rubinstein certainly embodied this belief.

Dance historians often note that George Balanchine adored women. Sure: so did Henry VIII. The Russian-American choreographer too was much married, and his creative leaps were often spurred by a ...

The evocative name Ballets Russes is generally associated with the company the impresario Serge Diaghilev created and managed between 1909 and 1929. Much has been written about its transformative ...

The oldest of the ballets on show in this programme (1929 for the Ballets Russes), and while many of us have grown up watching it, at first glance in 2025, it has an air of eccentricity about it, not ...

In an era of ignorance being a gifted performer doesnt shield you from the spekter of racism A passionate and dedicated black dancer in 1930s America is asked to dance by the prestigious Ballet ...

Not staged by the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden in more than 20 years, his final work for the Ballets Russes tells the well-known New Testament story of the boy who leaves home with everything, is ...

Rachel Ida Buff is a writer and working historian. Liat Mayer is a poet and youth worker who grew up in Milwaukee and Israel. Jodi Melamed teaches English. All three are proud members of the ...

More than 100 years after the 1870 premiere of Coppélia, George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova re-created the ballet for 20th century audiences, infusing it with theatrical charm and modern ...

Learn what the Department of Education does and what shutting it down would mean for the U.S.

The Oscar winner and Tony nominee reflects on two decades of shape-shifting performances, and the pivotal role that changed his approach to the craft.