Talk about intensity! The American premiere of “Mirlitons” last weekend at the Nimoy as part of CAP UCLA’s season and presented by Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, proved a powerful showcase for two multi-talented bodies: dancer, singer and performance artist François Chaignaud; and Aymeric Hainaux, visual artist, beatboxer,...

Sacramento Ballet is a 72-year-old company in the capital city of California with 25 dancers, a strong history of dancing the works of George Balanchine, and a growing school and second company. As of six weeks ago, Sacramento Ballet also has a new artistic director: Tiit Helimets. 

Back in Hollywood’s “silent era”—that is, when there was actual sound accompanying the movies, just sound produced, as at a ballet, by musical instruments rather than live speech—the legal entity now known to lawyers and stickler cineastes as “Warner Bros.”

Of all the places Juliet and Romeo could have fled to after Friar Laurence’s plan succeeded, they chose Paris. At least, this is how Ben Duke and Solène Weinachter imagined their fate in “Juliet and Romeo” (2018), now performed by Emily Terndrup and John Kendall in the title roles.