It took time for Ballet Manila to bring Swan Lake back to the stage—a ballet production that demands a significantly larger ensemble of dancers. The ...

San Francisco Ballet soloist Katherine Barkman and principal dancer Esteban Hernandez. Photo courtesy of Tony AbelloMANILA -- “Intricate” is how prima ballerina Lisa Macuja Elizalde described mounting ...

Legendary Russian ballet figure Yuri Grigorovich ... Grigorovich made his name staging classics such as The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and The Stone Flower. The latter was his most famous piece ...

The production of Swan Lake by the French company Ballet Preljocaj has been acclaimed ... Bowles inspiring the villainous “Black Swan”, Odile). The Preljocaj version has Siegfried as the ...

Grigorovich made his name staging classics such as The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and The Stone Flower ... that will be remembered... Genius," Russian-Georgian ballet dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze ...

He was a towering figure in the field of dance as the Soviet Russian choreographer who ran Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre during the last three decades of the U.S.S.R. The ballet announced his death ...

Preljocaj’s ballet is a long, long way from being ... we must infer. Thea Martin as Odile in Swan Lake. Reluctant to be involved, Siegfried (Antoine Dubois) flees to the lake and meets Odette ...

In between are a humorous ballet pastiche ... in a nod to the traditional Swan Lake, where the white swan Odette deceptively reappears as the black swan Odile. Here the stranger takes turns ...

These famous ballets have transcended time, culture, and language, drawing fans into fantastical worlds filled with passion, tragedy, and wonder.