It’s hard to explain the School of American Ballet’s annual Workshop performances to outsiders. Workshop is a year-end ballet recital,...
The opening to George Balanchine’s “Serenade”—dancers standing feet parallel, right arm reaching up with the palm facing out as if...
To many dancers, Balanchine is a figure so imbued with history, he’s almost not real. He lives on through his...
There was much to admire about the Washington Ballet’s program titled “Mixed Masters” which the company brought to the Kennedy...
Beginning in the light of the moon, a remembering. Beginning with a much-loved (and most-performed) “Serenade” by George Balanchine in...
There could be no more auspicious moment for Suzanne Farrell to mark the closure of her ballet company than December 2017.
With the New York City Ballet future of her former partner Peter Martins very much in doubt, Farrell sent her dancers out onstage at the Kennedy Center last week to perform works she and Martins had often danced together, works created by the man who cast her out of his company after she rebuffed his proposal.
