Alexei Ratmansky’s “The Fairy’s Kiss” is a captivating piece of dance storytelling, fusing genres of fairy tale, mystery, and romance to powerful effect. Set to Igor Stravinsky’s enchanting score and replete with gripping choreographic imagery, it’s a masterfully-crafted and thought-provoking ballet in which Ratmansky’s talent of making dance as a vital, immediate, and engrossing theatrical experience shines through and through.
George Balanchine’s “Jewels” will turn 50 next year. It was, and still is, a ballet like no other; a perfect...
At 74, Germaine Acogny, the Paris-based, Sénégalese matriarch of contemporary African dance, still has the power to astonish, making the...
“NYCB Classics II” program which the company performed during its spring season at David H. Koch Theater included four dances:...
Fall is here, and the New York City Ballet embarked upon a new season on Tuesday night. Business as usual—except...
There’s a moment at the end of Balanchine’s “Divertimento from Le baiser de la fée” in which the two principal...