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 - ...
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, ...
The central part in “Apollo” (1928) — the oldest George Balanchine work that the company performs — is one of the most difficult male roles in the repertory, requiring athleticism and dramatic depth.
"My goal," said Lincoln Jones, "is to create an experience today that has the depth of [the art of the past] but also the immediacy of what those things had in their own time." (Jane Kim / For The ...
The 1928 work, the oldest Balanchine piece in City Ballet’s repertory, imagines Apollo as a youth, still a little raw and vulnerable, experimenting with three muses, discovering music and dance. NEW ...
Artistic Director Tamara Rojo's Balanchine tribute thrills onstage but collides with politics as San Francisco Ballet confronts Trump-era Kennedy Center fallout, critic Rachel Howard writes.
What a bonus it is that, in this centennial year of George Balanchine's birth, we have witnessed not only fine performances drawn from the choreographer's unrivaled body of works but also, finally, ...
Ballerinas stir in the early afternoon light that shines through a fountain and into the studio. A jeté flashes in silhouette, a pirouette vanishes like a whisper. The dance is not there yet, but ...