Rehearsing Swan Lake a few weeks ago in a sweaty studio, trying to iron out some last-minute kinks, ballet dancer Unity Phelan stopped just before launching into the famed 32 fouettés – those ...

Barelegged swans are a bit like baseball players without caps. But as the art form confronts its history of racial homogeneity some traditions are being rethought. By Martha Schabas Reporting from ...

It was also probably the most physically challenging feat of her career. Many across the world know “Swan Lake,” the most iconic of all ballets. Far fewer know just how hard the main ballerina role is ...

Oleksandr Stoianov has only been able to watch since Russia invaded his home country in 2022. As founder and principal dancer ...

“Swan Lake” premiered in 1877 with a libretto of uncertain authorship, a score by neophyte ballet composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and choreography, now lost, by the now forgotten Julius ...