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Atlanta Ballet’s 2025-26 season will include three full-length story ballets — “Frida,” “The Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker” — along with six shorter works.
Creating a cohesive and entertaining season for ballet audiences takes time: Atlanta Ballet Director Gennadi Nedvigin reveals some of his thinking behind the company’s 2025-26 season. :: Atlanta ...
The bubble-hem shorts may excite a slightly older customer who shuffles around downtown in her beat-up Chanel ballet flats and wears her grandmother’s fur stole around her neck. The crisp ...
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 ...
In Rome in 1917, designing “decorations” for Sergei Diaghilev’s fashionable Ballets Russes, Picasso was boulversé by the ... Jugglers! Acrobats! Coco Chanel festooned herself in ropes of diamonds to ...
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 ...
The first was dedicated to his beloved France, and the guest of honor was none other than Coco Chanel, who famously scraped her baked beans onto the red satin slippers of Elizabeth Arden at ...
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.