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 - ...
And it's easy to see why George Balanchine's seminal work seemed like a dance from the moon when Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes first performed it in 1928. At its Houston Ballet premiere Thursday, ...
In Paris in 1928, when classical dance was démodé, Balanchine created a ballet that prompted Diaghilev to remark at a rehearsal: “What he is doing is magnificent. It is pure classicism such as we have ...
Boston Ballet will perform George Balanchine’s Apollo alongside the Boston Symphony Orchestra in an exciting guest engagement at Tanglewood. The legendary work brings humanity to Greek mythology, ...
New York City Ballet opened its six-week winter season Tuesday with “Apollo” (1928), a ballet about the creation of art. Choreographed by George Balanchine to a classic score by Igor Stravinsky, ...
In the George Balanchine canon, there is only one god. His name is Apollo. This title role is conferred upon only a few at New York City Ballet. Those who are cast in this Stravinsky ballet are the ...