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Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Mere Mortals with Nikisha Fogo and Fernando Carratalá Coloma
22+ hour, 30+ min ago (432+ words) San Francisco Ballet is on the road. First stop Edinburgh Festival, next Sadler’s Wells. The last time the company visited the Wells, they brought four different programmes; this time, one standalone work. Commissioned by Artistic Director Tamara Rojo in her…...
Herman Cornejo and James Whiteside to give farewell performances with American Ballet Theatre
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (771+ words) American Ballet Theatre has announced that two of its most distinctive principal dancers, Herman Cornejo and James Whiteside, will retire from the company during the 2027 Metropolitan Opera House season. Whiteside will give his final ABT performance on 30 June 2027, dancing Albrecht…...
Interview: Los Angeles Ballet director Melissa Barak on the company’s Hollywood Bowl debut
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1266+ words) Recently, Barak took time from rehearsals to speak with dance writer Ann Haskins about Los Angeles Ballet’s debut at the Hollywood Bowl and also about the company’s upcoming performances at Santa Monica’s BroadStage from 25 to 27 September. How did the commission…...
National Ballet of Canada's Genevieve Penn Nabity swaps the stage for the stadium to throw the first pitch
2+ week, 2+ day ago (421+ words) Genevieve Penn Nabity swapped the Four Seasons Centre stage for the Rogers Centre mound this week, throwing the ceremonial first pitch at the Toronto Blue Jays’ game against the Seattle Mariners. For the uninitiated, “throwing the first pitch” refers to…...
Interview: Steven McRae and Vasko Vassilev talk about their upcoming Royal Ballet project at the Linbury Theatre
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1753+ words) The Royal Ballet opens the 2026/27 Season at the Linbury Theatre on 11 September with The McRae / Vassilev Project, bringing Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Steven McRae and Principal Guest Concert Master Vasko Vassilev together for an evening of music and dance. Ahead…...
Review: Covent Garden Dance’s Ballet Under the Stars at Hatch House
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (493+ words) Ballet Under the Stars in the beautiful Dutch Garden at Hatch House in Wiltshire has become a social highlight of the summer, but alas, this twentieth-anniversary season will be the last, at least for the time being. And it is…...
Eleven ballerinas, one Fracci: celebrating what would have been Carla Fracci’s 90th birthday
3+ week, 4+ day ago (365+ words) Today – 20 August 2026 – would have been Carla Fracci’s 90th birthday. To mark the occasion, we look back at one of the most audacious projects of her career: a parade through the history of eleven 19th-century ballerinas who emerged from La Scala’s Ballet…...
From Milan to Paris: ten-year-old Nathan is off to the Paris Opéra
3+ week, 6+ day ago (466+ words) I love dancing because it makes me feel good. Actually, it makes me feel grown up. That’s how Nathan, ten years old, explains his passion for ballet – with the kind of simplicity that comes from already knowing, at his age,…...
Dance photographer Elliott Franks dies at 62
4+ week, 1+ day ago (227+ words) His pictures graced the cover of Dancing Times several times when I was editor of the magazine, and I was always pleased to catch up with him regularly at the Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards. I last saw him in…...