
Rudolf Nureyev’s final full-length creation for the Paris Opera Ballet returns this season as a testament to classical grandeur and theatrical excess....
Vor gut zwei Wochen wäre Ingeborg Bachmann 100 Jahre alt geworden – Anlass genug für die Konstanzer Choreografin und Regisseurin Judith Geibel,...
Nichts ist hier in Stein gemeißelt – weder das Glück, noch das Unglück selbst. Und auch nicht die Reihenfolge der beiden Stücke...
Christopher Wheeldon’s now-canonical masterpiece arrives at La Scala in the original Royal Ballet production, confirming both its structural sophistication and its enduring...
At the Royal Swedish Opera, history is brought vividly to life in Gustavia, a grand-scale work deeply rooted in Sweden's own past...
This is a review I hadn’t, initially, intended to write. Some days prior to attending the performance I watched a run-through at...

The enduring classic has travelled across generations and countries, carrying with it both the beauty and the contradictions of its nineteenth-century origins. Skylar Brandt, Valentine Colasante, Maia Makhateli, Alice Mariani and Osiel Gouneo discuss what it means to inhabit its characters today – and why a ballet can remain alive because we continue to question […]
Valentino Zucchetti, first soloist with the Royal Ballet, on the manipulative, ruthless and surprisingly complex brother at the heart of...
“And love awaits you. Toreador love awaits you. Toreador, toreador, Love is waiting for you.” Translated to English from Bizet’s...
Great ballet roles live through the artists who dance them. In each issue, a dancer from a leading company shares...
Es ist ein besonderer Ort für Tanz. Seit mehreren Jahren öffnet der Heidelberger Pfarrer der Heiliggeistkirche, Vincenzo Petracca, mitten in...
“Challenge yourself. Don’t accept there is not a place for you. Even if it is not as Romeo, there is...
Wege ins 20. Jahrhundert: August Bournonville und Marius Petipa August Bournonville und Marius Petipa stehen für die beiden großen Traditionslinien,...