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 - ...

The rich history of American ballet is celebrated in classic works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, two choreographic giants of the 20th century. Apollo brought Balanchine together for the ...

For Tiler Peck, the challenge of portraying Terpsichore lies in the choreography's lack of "fireworks," but she feels at home in the role thanks to the "quiet but commanding" energy of her most recent ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...