Can beauty be born from something sad? The new fairy-tale ballet Raffaella, premiering June 29-30 at the Morris Performing Arts Center in South Bend, Indiana, assures it can. “Beauty will save the ...

Loosely based on the life of the late dancer, the traditional ballet incorporates elements of beauty and art — exactly what Rafaella Stroik loved about ballet. Isabella LaFreniere is a principal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inside a dimly lit rehearsal studio, a dozen dancers move in deliberate silence. The music hasn’t started yet, but the rhythm is ...

When it comes to tellings of Charles Perrault’s story “Sleeping Beauty,” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet out-fairies Walt Disney’s movie by a score of 10 to 3. Only three fairy godmothers, Flora, ...

WASHINGTON – Ten years ago, Washington Ballet artistic director Septime Webre married his fascination with Prokofiev’s Cinderella, a musical score with sweeping, sumptuous waltzes and comedic ...

A brand-new original ballet of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale is set to premiere this week, a production of Fletcher N.C.'s River Arts Ballet and the ballet school at Black Mountain Center for the Arts.

Ethereal bodies float along in wispy, tulle skirts and sparkly tiaras. At that moment, ballet dancers are the image of perfection. The hours, years and months of intense training are unimaginable as ...

Miami City Ballet’s Simone Messmer, in the title role of Alexei Ratmansky’s “The Fairy’s Kiss” hovers over Jordan-Elizabeth Long. The ballet had its world premiere at the Adrienne Arsht Center Friday ...

Inside a dimly lit rehearsal studio, a dozen dancers move in deliberate silence. The music hasn’t started yet, but the rhythm is already there — in the slide of ballet slippers across the floor, in ...