Unbound at SF Ballet: An Interview with Cathy Marston
San Francisco Ballet’s #Unbound2018 is a festival of 12 world premieres, split into 4 programs over 17 days. Linking all these new ballets is the…
Highlights
Five Ballet movies you should not miss
As the new ballet season kicks into gear, we share our current favorite dance documentaries and movies, all coming soon to a screen near…
Ballets by Ratmansky
A case of incurable Ratmansky Fever means we continue to chase the choreographer’s new works around the globe, so make sure to check back…
Romeo and Juliet
Is this ballet for you? Go if: You can’t resist a tragic love story. New Moon is your favorite book of the entire Twilight…
New in the Bag
Soul Meets Body
Since mixed reviews (including our previous opening night write up) have plagued the Royal Ballet’s celebratory “Ballets Russes Triple Bill”, I approached last Friday’s…
Giselle Roundup
Giselle belongs to the team of ballets we could watch over and over again: short & sweet (2 acts), few character dances (as compared…
Love or Confusion
Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon is a modern classic, loved by the audience and regularly performed by every major ballet company in the world. The success…
Bag of Steps: Eight Positions
In ballet there are eight positions of the body from which all the various steps are executed. All the different schools of ballet use…