By the 1910s, Igor Stravinsky had established himself as the legendary composer of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. The ...

One way of approaching Igor Stravinsky’s new ballet Agon, in première at the New York City Center last week, is through a kind of game. The game: listening to the score alone (on an excellent new ...

In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

The troupe’s inconsistent current run at Lincoln Center features Lar Lubovitch’s ‘Othello: A Dance in Three Acts,’ Alexei ...

Sacramento Ballet will wrap its 2023-24 season at a technical and inventive peak with Innovations (May 17-19, 2024), a thrilling bill of challenging, in-demand works. The performances feature Apollo - ...

Stravinsky caused all sorts of waves with the Ballet Russe, and it's easy to forget that the first one was a good one, pushing its composer straight into the spotlight. The work that did it, the ...

One of the reasons, if a lesser one, that Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring") created a scandal at its Paris premiere on May 29, 1913 –more than a century ago now– was that, ...

For Igor Stravinsky's 125th birthday, Pacific Northwest Ballet kicks off a two-week celebration with the PNB orchestra playing his Greeting Prelude. It's a 50-second take on "Happy Birthday!" written ...

This album of Russian ballet transcriptions sparkles like a glass bauble hanging amidst the fairy lights. Tchaikovsky and ...